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PDF has garbled text when copy pasting
I'm trying to copy and paste text from a PDF file. However, whenever I paste the original text it is a huge mess of garbled characters. The text looks like the following (this is just one small extract): I've tried it in both Adobe and Foxit PDF readers. I did a 'Save as text' in Adobe Reader and t…
Visual Studio not auto-building when I press the debug button
I'm writing code in Visual Studio but whenever I want to test the application and press the green arrow for "Start debugging", Visual Studio does not automatically recompile the active solution for me and I have to manually build the solution then debug it. Visual Studio used to automatically build…
Mercurial. Colour output piped to less
Operating system: Mac OS 10.6.2 I'd like to be able to see colour output when piping certain commands through less. Two examples: I've got ls aliased to , so I'd like to be able to see colour when I do this: I've also got the color extension turned on in Mercurial, so I'd like to see colour output …
Rotate a video file 90 degrees using Ubuntu
I want to use Ubuntu and preferably standard packages such as ffmpeg to rotate a .3gp video file by 90 degrees in any direction. Preferably a command line or Python script. How can I do that?
Why can Dropbox be super fast compared to FTP?
I'd like to know why technically Dropbox is much faster than FTP? What kind of technology does it use? I'm not talking about diff files, I'm talking about transferring new files in both cases, Dropbox is much faster. I mean it, very much faster, maybe 10 times faster than FTP for files I uploaded. …
How can I specify IP and ports for a hostname in the Windows hosts file?
I want to specify host names with two different ports in the Windows file. Is there a way to do it? Or is it not allowed by Windows itself? I have been wasting my time searching for the solution for the last 8 hours. Is it possible to specify ports in the host file, ? E.g.: and
How to vertically split widescreen into two virtual workspaces on Ubuntu/Gnome?
My new laptop has a big 16:9 screen, and I'm finding it hard to fully utilize it during the 95% of the time that I'm not watching HD movies on it. I'd like to set it up as a kind of virtual dual screen by splitting the physical screen into two workspaces. I know I could arrange my windows manually,…
How can I find what /dev my DVD-drive is?
I'm on Mac OS X, have a DVD in the DVD-drive and can look at it in the Finder. I'd like to try to create an iso of it by using the command. But to do that I need to know what device to use as an input. How can I find what device my DVD-drive is?
How do I open SQL Server Management Studio?
How do I open SQL Server Management Studio? I installed it but I don't see where I can open it.
Thunderbird "undo send" feature (like in Gmail)?
I was wondering if there exists a thunderbird addon that gives similar functionality as Google's "undo send" feature? This basically just delays the sent message for a few seconds allowing the user to cancel the send if desired. I find this very useful in Gmail and would love the option now that I …
Any way of changing Windows screen resolution via command line?
I am using Microsoft's Live Mesh program to remotely access a PC running Windows 7, running on 2 screens: one with 1920x1080 and the other 1920x1200 resolution. I am accessing them via an old laptop with 1024x1078 resolution. The result is such tiny icons/commands that it is difficult to try and ch…
How to type unicode characters in KDE?
This answer has tips on how to do it on Gnome or Vim, but these don't work on KDE. This bug shows that KDE don't support the ISO notation with Ctrl+Shift plus the character's hex code. Is there any other way I can do this with a keyboard (that is, without copying and pasting)?
How to find which app is using iSight (the iMac camera)
How do I find out which application has the camera open on an iMac (Running Leopard)? The green light is on indicating the camera is in use as well as photo booth can't connect to the camera. The only other apps running are Safari and Finder (as best as I can tell), neither of which seem to be usin…
How do I change the wallpaper of Windows 7 Starter Edition?
Is there a way to change the desktop wallpaper in Windows 7 Starter Edition? I wanted to do that on my new netbook, just to find out that there is no "Customize" option in the control panel. Microsoft obviously wants to keep the netbook users rather rigidly from customizing their machines. It isn't…
Configure VirtualBox to connect to Internet through proxy
I'm currently trying to run Chrome OS in VirtualBox 3.0.1. Windows XP Pro is the host system. The actual behavior is Chrome OS starts up fine, reaches the login screen. Once so, when trying to log using my Google account, I have the network indicator (at the bottom of Virtual Box window) briefly fl…
Google Chrome Plugin for JSON Reading
Is there a Chrome plugin that renders JSON files in Chrome? Currently Chrome just tries to download them, and that's kind of boring.
What does it mean to "subscribe" to an IMAP folder?
I'm using Thunderbird with Gmail IMAP and there's this "Subscribe" option for folders. What does that mean?
How to remove shell integration of Notepad++?
I want to remove Notepad++'s annoying shell integration when right-clicking a file in Windows. How do I do that?
How can I enable PAE on Windows 7 (32-bit) to support more than 3.5 GB of RAM?
I know that Windows XP 32-bit can be configured, through PAE, to support more than 3.5 GB of RAM. Is there a good tutorial to do this with Windows 7 32-bit? As to why I don't simply use 64-bit Windows 7: The software for my Internet connection (cell phone-as-modem) will only work in 32-bit environm…
Google Search from Linux Terminal
I saw a Google console app someone wrote a while back, but it was actually a website emulating a console. What I'm after is a shortcut or Linux terminal app which I can use to quickly search Google. Ideally, it will show the top 10 search results with numbers next to them, and pressing the number w…