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Excel displays ### for long text - what's wrong?
We've got an excel sheet with a pretty long text in one cell. Instead of line breaks (as set in the cell format), we get a long line of s. We can go back and forth by deleting and adding chars at the end of the text. We've played around with cell formatting etc. but no success. What can we do?
Can a mapped network drive be reconnected from the command line?
On a daily basis I find myself in the Windows command prompt needing to access a network drive that is mapped but disconnected. I have yet to find a command that will reconnect this drive without unmapping and remapping (which leads to a password guessing game, since I don't own these computers). I…
Is it safe to use RAM sticks with different frequencies?
I have two RAM sticks: one 533 MHz and one 667 MHz. Is it safe to use both of these in the same system?
How can I hide an application from the Windows taskbar?
Is there a way to "hide" a normal windowed application in Windows? I'm looking for something that removes it from the taskbar and possibly puts an icon in the system tray instead.
How to reduce the pain of the command prompt
I want to learn to use the command prompt better on Windows to have more control over what I do and just for the learning experience. The main annoyance I have right now is all of the typing. If I want to perform an operation on a file with a large path I'm sitting there typing it out for a minute …
How to rotate images automatically, based on exif data
When I make pictures with my camera (Olympus E-520), in the EXIF data the orientation is stored. The standard image viewer on Ubuntu is displaying this images correctly. Windows viewer however not. Is there a way to really rotate this images (if necessary according to EXIF) in a batch on Ubuntu? Fo…
Remapping of keys in Mac OS X
My MBP comes with a Turkish keyboard but I'm using US layout. However, the key just under ESC gives § instead of ` (back-quote) which I frequently use. I need to remap this key but I couldn't find any information except remapping of modifier keys. How can I do it?
How can I make my IP address appear to be from another country?
How do I make it appear that my IP address is coming from one country while I'm located in another? I live in Germany and some websites (like Hulu or Youtube) don't work because my IP isn't in the US. How do I get around this? Do I have to use a proxy or something? Moderator note Super User does no…
Back / Forward mouse buttons do not work in VMWare Workstation 6.5 Guest OS
I am using a Logitech G9 mouse and running VMWare Workstation 6.5.3 on Vista x64. The guest OS is Win XP, and has the most current version of VMWare Tools installed. Left / right buttons and mouse wheel scrolling work fine in the guest OS, but the back / forward buttons are apparently not recognize…
Can I trust a hard drive that has had to reallocate sectors?
I ran this HD utility called CrystalDiskInfo that displays some of the S.M.A.R.T. information on my drives. It is displaying a "Caution" warning on one of my drives because its "Reallocated Sectors Count" value is 263 (ideally it should be 0 as it is on all of the other drives I have tested). I pos…
gitk looks ugly / doesn't honor theme settings
I'm running Xubuntu, (actually linux mint with xfce on top, but I suppose it's essentially the same thing) I set my appearance theme to (a modified version of) MurrinaStormCloud, but if I run gitk, it uses ugly font rendering, ugly colors, ugly widgets. I think tcl is the thing to blame here, but c…
Can I hibernate Linux without a swap partition?
I hadn't set up a swap partition on my PC, because a) I have plenty of RAM (8 GB) and b) I have large harddrives that I didn't want to chop into tiny pieces, so my smallest partitions are 50 GiB, and I'm already using those for the OS's. Now, to hibernate, my Linux (Ubuntu Jaunty) required swap. I …
How do I uninstall and remove a .kext on Mac OS X?
I bought a X-in-1 media card reader and had to install a driver in order to be able to read SD-HC cards. Now sometimes when I unplug the reader from the USB port I get a kernel panic. So now I'd like to remove this kernel extension but the driver installer doesn't give me this option. How can I uni…
Do any multi-client IM clients support Skype Chat?
It would be best if they can run without having Skype installed at all. Does such a creature exist?
Rename a group of files with one command
If I have a group of files with a .htm extention, how can I rename them all to .html? does not work.
Is there an easy way to split mp3 files?
I recently learned a neat trick. To join mp3 files together, you simply use the command (in Windows) and voila, you have one large mp3 file. My question: is there a method of doing the opposite, i.e. splitting an mp3 file, this easily?
How do you track which packages were installed on Ubuntu (Linux)?
(This question is very similar to 10458. It was suggested that Fedora and Ubuntu/Debian are different enough to warrant different answers.) As I use any Ubuntu setup I gradually install a number of packages over and above the baseline installation. If I reinstall, or if I need to install a new mach…
Offline update of Windows?
What options, if any, exist for offline update of Microsoft Windows? If a solution exists please list your experience using it. Background: If for any reason a computer does not have a connection to the Internet or the connection is too slow to download several hundreds of megabytes every so often …
Excel freezes when copying / cutting to paste elsewhere
When cutting/copying some cells to paste them into another sheet/page, sometimes Excel freezes/locks up and fades out. At the top toolbar it says in brackets "not responding". Eventually, I must click 'X' to close the program. It offers to wait for the program to respond, but never does – it just d…
Creating files and directories with a certain owner (user/group) while sudoing
I need to something (results in a compressed file in cwd), then I have to extract it, then do some copy/move/modification stuff and perhaps finally execute an script (from the downloaded archive). Now all these task either directly ( , extract etc.) or indirectly (running the script) result in crea…