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Where are the rpm files after installation using yum?
I'm using Red Hat 5.4. I have installed a package using yum the package was wireshark. However, after it has installed. Where can I find the rpm package? I would like to locate the actual wireshark.rpm package so that I can install it on another machine that is not connected to the Internet.
How long are files kept in /var/tmp/, and how to use the directory?
I'm always hesitant to use /var/tmp/, because I never quite know exactly how long the files are kept there for, or even what the directory is used for. What determines when a file gets removed from /var/tmp/, and how is the directory intended to be used?
How to list imported symbols in ELF executable?
For PE executable, I can list the imported symbols using or using the depends utility which is GUI application. `nm ELF-binary' just returns "no symbols".
Mac Hebrew/English Uppercase
On Windows, when I am typing in Hebrew, I can press Shift and a letter and get the English letter typed. This is very usefull as I don't have to change keyboard layouts all the time if I want to write mixed Hebrew/English texts. On Mac, when I am using the Hebrew keyboard layout, pressing Shift and…
how do I enable scrolling in Windows command prompt?
I open cmd.exe and I wanted to see my IP address. So I typed in ipconfig but then all the output does not fit in the CMD window, so I can't scroll up and actually see the important stuff. So how do I... "enable"... scrolling? I'm using Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.
What is the difference between Debian and Ubuntu?
From what I heard Ubuntu is a basically a Debian Linux with some extra applications and drivers pre-installed in order to make it more user friendly. Is that all? Or are there deeper, more fundamental differences between the two?
Why do fonts look messed up in Adobe Acrobat?
When I open a PDF in a non-Acrobat PDF viewer, they look fine, but when I open one in Acrobat, the fonts look absolutely terrible. They look very low resolution and I'm not sure how to increase them. I've tried PDFs from internet, exporting from Word, and making LaTeX documents. How can I correct t…
Windows 7 / Symlinks - How do I copy a Symlink to a directory?
Is it possible to copy a Symlink to a directory in Windows 7. When I try to copy a symlink'd directory, it tries to deep copy the contents to the location.
what is the max length of password on unix/linux system?
what is the max permissible length of password on unix/linux system?
Safely get rid of "You have new mail in /var/mail" on a Mac?
I was messing around with sendmail in Rails a year ago and have had this message popping up in the terminal after every command ever since: You have new mail in /var/mail/Lance How do I properly get rid of that so the message goes away? I ever use any of that functionality and don't have mail on my…
Hooking up my power switch/reset switch/LEDs
I'm working on building a computer (first time for me). There are several plugs that I need to connect to the motherboard (Power LED, reset switch, etc). Of the two wires, they are either: Color and white (reset switch, power LED, HDD LED) red and black (speaker, power switch) The manual for the mo…
Can I specify double-click selection delimiters in Terminal.app?
In Mac OS X's Terminal.app, I'd like to set my own selection delimiters such that if I have the text foo.bar.baz and double click bar, only bar is selected. Is this possible and if so how?
Is it possible to host a web server from behind a NAT
My PC is behind a NAT router that has a public IP address. If I want to host a website then I believe I need a domain name which I can purchase from some site which would pledge to resolve all DNS requests for that domain name and send the IP address of my NAT router (assuming I do not want to host…
How long can a Windows computer name be?
Is there a limit to the number of allowed characters for Windows computer names? If so, what is the limit?
Make Chrome's Omnibar behave more like the Firefox AwesomeBar
One of my favorite features of the Firefox AwesomeBar is that I can simply type a substring of any URL or page title in my history and it finds all matches sorted by how frequently they were accessed. Example: I simply type "ask" when I want to ask something on stackoverflow.com., "inbox" goes to m…
How to disable automatic opening of PDF files in chrome
Possible Duplicate: Stop PDFs from displaying inside Google Chrome Chrome is opening the PDF files automatically and don't give option to save the file. How can i change this behavior?
Can two users simultaneously share one pc
It's easy to have multiple user accounts on one computer and even switch between accounts without logging off. It is also possible to have more than one display connected to a single computer. Is it possible to have one multi-core computer be used simultaneously by two users in their own accounts? …
Difference between Ethernet splitter and switch
I have one Ethernet port that is wired directly to the router on another level. However, I want to run a desktop and a server both off this one Ethernet port. Can anyone tell me the difference between an Ethernet splitter and a switch? Also, will either the splitter or switch slow down the connecti…
Moving (efficiently) vertically in Vim
When I want to reach to a certain part of a word in Vim (horizontally) I simply press w, b, f or t (something). Is there a good way of doing this vertically? For instance, I want to get to a certain word or a letter of a line that is below or above the line I'm currently in. PS: Without using :(lin…
Show only odd lines with cat
HI, probably is this something very easy, but I do not get the point now. In Linux, shell, given a text file, how can I do something like, cat filename so I only see the first line, the third line, 5, 7, 9 and so on? if not with cat, with another command Thanks