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How do I clear my bash screen while maintaining scrollback?
The command can make the next command easier to read (if it outputs less than a page there's no scrolling hence no searching for the beginning). However it also clears the scrollback buffer which you may not always want.
Possible values of %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%
I'm writing a batch script for windows 7 and want to handle both 64 bit and and x86 processors. What are the possible values of the Windows environment variable?
What is the difference between "Program Files" and "Program Files X86"?
In Windows 7 there are two folders, "Program Files" and "Program Files X86". What is difference between them? Where does a 64 Bit program get installed?
If a password is compromised, is a "similar" password also compromised?
Suppose a user uses a secure password at site A and a different but similar secure password at site B. Maybe something like on site A and on site B (feel free to use a different definition of "similarity" if it makes sense). Suppose then that the password for site A is somehow compromised...maybe a…
Formatting : The volume is too big for FAT32
Formatting an external 500GB HDD took almost >6 hours that I started like: finally responded with the error: However according to MSFT there are no such limitations. (I used XP specs, while I am formatting in Win7, ok?) I am not formatting the drive during setup but on an installed version from the…
How can I 'select to end of file' in Notepad?
Temporarily stuck with Notepad, I'd like to know if there is any better or quicker way of selecting from here to the end of the file than moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen and then vigorously from side to side (which is more exercise than I expect to get at a computer).
How can text be justified on both the left and right sides of a line in Word?
Is it possible to set Microsoft Word to display some text left-aligned and other text right-aligned on a single line? Here's an example of what I mean (vertical lines represent edges of page): The full justify option won't work because I don't want anything in the middle of the lines. The table of …
Automating the scanning of graphics files for corruption
Does anyone know of a way to check graphics files (particularly JPEG, GIF, and PNG) for corruption (preferably in an automated way)? Explanation: A few days ago, a command worked incorrectly and ended up deleting thousands of graphics files from a FAT32 volume that was practically out of space. I’v…
How can a CMOS battery store data?
How does a CMOS battery store information on it? I know it stores information such as the time, date, passwords and drive configuration, but how? How can a battery store data?
Sharing a folder between windows 7 and mac os x on vmware
I need to share a folder between windows 7 and mac os x on VMware. How can this be done?
Can I upload an entire folder using FTP?
I need to upload a full folder using FTP. Is there is any option for transferring a folder and all of its contents at once?
Tmux: How can I link a window as split-window?
how can I grab a window from totally different tmux session and attach it as a horizontal/vertical split to current window?
How do I copy file named starting with a dot?
I am trying to copy all files under directory A to directory B. All files under directory A are starting with dot, for example: which I found if I use: , always get error: It seems there is no option for as to handle entries started with dot, anyone has idea how to fix it?
Doskey for compound command
Doskey works in modern versions of Windows for setting aliases for single commands, e.g. . There's a slight problem trying to use it for compound commands like since this gets interpreted as . The obvious fix would be to add explicit parentheses, but for some reason this doesn't work, and doesn't w…
Why does GIMP start up so slow on my machine?
Is there any way to speed up GIMP's startup time on Windows Vista Home Premium 32-Bit 1.6 [Dual] Intel Processors? On XP [different computer], it loads in less than 3 seconds. On Vista, it takes 20 seconds: 2 Seconds (other - fonts, brushes, etc) 18 Seconds (extension-script-fu) It just freezes at …
How to add cell padding in Excel 2010?
Is there a way to add padding to cells in Excel 2010? The spreadsheet I'm using has cells in one column with varying row heights. I don't want to center the text, I just want it padded slightly from the left side.
In Google Chrome on Linux, where is the flv if not in /tmp?
I like to keep videos because I like buffering them and then playing them back-to-back in my media player, I want to be able to stop/restart my browser without losing all the buffered video, and Flash frequently crashes and gives me the gray boxes. For many sites with Flash video (including Youtube…
What is the relevance of "fe80::1%lo0 localhost" in /etc/hosts?
Following are the entries in my . I was wondering what is the last entry ( ) for.
Can you share wisdom on using HISTIGNORE in bash?
I was reading the manpages for bash on the plane and I stumbled across the HISTIGNORE variable. To test it out, I immediately edited my .profile to define this variable: I tested it out and this is great! It excludes plain 'ls' commands from my history without excluding more interesting commands wi…
Why does 'sort' ignore special characters, like the asterisk?
I thought that would sort common prefixes together but that doesn't always happen. Take this input for example: After , I'd expect all the to end up in one chunk but when you run this data through , the output input. Why is that? I'm not specifying any option to ignore non-alphabetic characters or …