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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…
How do I change a users default shell in OSX?
What is the correct OSX way of changing a users default shell? When I googled for it I found several references to an application called NetInfo Manager but I couldn't find it on my system. There were also references to a command line version called niutil which I didn't find either.
How does SSH encryption work?
I've read about generating 2 keys (private and public) on client host and copying the public key to the server host. As I understand it, (correct me if i'm wrong): The server encrypts data with the public key and sends it to client, the client decrypts it with the private key. But if I need to encr…
Force date/time/clock sync
My Snow Leopard macbook is set to , but despite sitting idle for several hours (with internet connection), it has yet to do any syncing, the date remains off by ~2 days.
How do I determine the size of a page source in Chrome?
Obviously, I want to get the answer without saving the page. It seems basic, but I can't figure out how to do that. If it requires a plugin, it's ok. It would be nice if the solution would also cover styling sheets, scripts and images, associated with the page.
How do i get the git pager to clean up screen output after exit?
The pager less doesn't clear the screen as it should do when i use git. I use less all the time and it usually doesn't leave output in the terminal after quit but when less gets executed via git it leaves the output in the terminal. I'm 100% sure git uses less on my system. What is wrong with git a…
Getting Pageant to save keys files?
I'm using Pageant (on Windows 7) to login to SSH connections with private keys .ppk files. However each time I start the program I have to add all the keys I want again and enter their encryption keys. How can I get it to save this stuff?
Use Ghostscript, but tell it to not reprocess images?
I have a PDF that has already compressed and somewhat artifact-y images, and I'm using Ghostscript to prepend a title page to that PDF. However, I cannot find any way to tell GS to just use the existing images as-is without reprocessing them, and now I'm feeling as if it's something to do with how …
How to copy all email addresses from an email in Thunderbird
Is there a way to automatically copy all the email addresses from an email's To, Cc, Bcc headers etc in Thunderbird? I am currently right clicking and doing "Copy Email Address" for each one but this is obviously unsatifactory.
Move all files from subdirectories to current directory?
How can I move the files contained in all subdirectories to the current directory, and then remove the empty subdirectories? I found this question, but adapting the answer to: did not work; I received a lot of warnings looking like: The files contained in the subdirectories have unique names.
Parallelizing rsync
I just moved and discovered after some trial and error that somewhere between my home and my remote server, there is some throttling going on...but the throttling is not very intelligent. It only throttles individual connections. So if I copy one 1 GB file, it will proceed merrily at 150 kBps. But …
How to see which file Dropbox is currently uploading/downloading?
How can you see which file Dropbox is currently uploading (or downloading, I assume dropbox doesn't do both at the same time) ?
How can I change the language of Windows 7 to English?
I have a German edition of Windows 7 and want to change its language to English. Does anyone know how to do this? P.s. I have a home version of windows (not professional or ultimate) :) P.s.s. I can't manage to get any lb.cab file, can any1 also provide a link to that?
What are invalid characters for a file name under OS X?
I am having trouble finding this information, and trial and error is telling me that there may not be any. What are invalid characters for a file name on OS X Lion (10.7)?
Conditional formatting of TRUE / FALSE values in an Excel 2010 range
I have a range containing formulas that evaluate to TRUE or FALSE. How would one apply conditional formatting to this range, so that TRUE cells are Green, and FALSE cells are RED?
Meaning of parameters in classic 'LOAD "*",8,1' Commodore command
In the good old days of Commodore (64 and 128), the command to type to load the first program off a disk was: Where I take it that was probably a wild card that would just effectively give all the contents of the disk to which would then successfully load whatever happened to be the first loadable …
How can I open a URL on a schedule in the default browser?
I'm looking for a mechanism to open a single URL in the user's current default browser on a schedule/recurring basis. I know that if I was writing .Net code to do this, I could simply do something along the lines of which will cause the default browser to open to that address. Likewise, I can go to…
How to boot from a flash drive OS using VirtualBox?
I have two flash drive, one with Slax installed and another for Android x86 Live installed, but they do not boot in my laptop (in my work they boot perfectly). I can boot from some live CDs/DVDs or its ISO files using VirtualBox, but I cannot do it for live flash drives - I put the flash drives and…
Will my computer slow down if I install multiple operating systems?
Many of my friends have said that installing multiple operating systems on a single PC slows down individual OS's because the total RAM gets divided among the OS's. Is there any truth in the above statement?
How do I alias a hostname in windows?
Same question as How to alias a hostname? but for windows, particularly windows 7 I don't want to specify an ip address (hosts file) just an alias so that points to and all programs will be able to find it should I use that dns