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Is there an app I can use to edit an existing animated GIF?
Possible Duplicate: Video/Animated GIF advanced frame editor? I’ve found a fair few apps that create animated GIFs from a series of existing images. Are there any apps that can take an existing animated GIF, and allow me to edit it? I specifically want to edit every frame in an existing animated GI…
How to delete old pagefile.sys and hiberfile.sys on secondary disk (old windows install)
A while ago I swapped my main hard disk for a SSD. Now the old one is used as a secondary hard disk, and my OS is a fresh windows install on the main SSD disk. Nevertheless, there are still huge and on that secondary hard drive. Those are not the ones used by the current windows, as those do exist …
How to quickly check if two columns in Excel are equivalent in value?
I am interested in taking two columns and getting a quick answer on whether they are equivalent in value or not. Let me show you what I mean: So its trivial to make another column (EQUAL) that does a simple compare for each pair of cells in the two columns. It's also trivial to use conditional form…
Remote Desktop Connection - How to get the certificate prompt back?
I just tried remoting to my work PC from home and got the "identity cannot be verified" prompt like the one below. I marked the "Don't ask me again for connections to this computer" box, and then accidentally clicked No (do not connect) instead of Yes. Now when I try to connect it asks me for my pa…
How to fix virtualbox startup error: "vboxadd-service ... failed!"
I'm using VirtualBox 4.0.8 with Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit host and debian 6.0.1a amd64 guest (in CLI mode). I installed Guest Additions and it seems to work, at least partially, as I have successfully setup a shared folder between host and guest. However every time I boot the guest, I get the fol…
Change all text fonts in Libreoffice Impress presentation?
Anyone got any idea how to change the font of all text boxes in an Impress presentation? Applying a Master slide doesn't appear to have any useful effect.
Chkdsk Questions
Recently in running on my system drive (platter drive, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit) I've gotten back results like: Am I right in assuming these aren't problematic reports? Do most NTFS system drives report back EA and reparse records processed when chkdsk is run?
create mysql database with one line in bash
Is it possible to create an empty database with one line of command in bash? My newbie attempts have failed: I end up having to
tmux died and says "no sessions" - is there any way to recover?
This sucks. My sysadmin upgraded tmux and now I can't reattach. My processes are still running according to . Is there any hope of recovering my session? Update: There's a socket in , so I tried , but tmux does nothing. Hooray.
How to tame Linux responsiveness, memory, and paging
First question on overflow =)... +100 bounty. Couldn't think of something I really cared about until now: I'm really fed up with the state of Linux desktop responsiveness, e.g. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/85/ -- in situations with low free-RAM, or situations with high disk throughput, the sys…
Equivalent to Sysinternals Process Explorer on Linux
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and am looking for an equivalent to Process Explorer on Linux. There is System Monitor but it's not nearly as good as Process Explorer with all of its detailed information about processes. Any suggestions?
Is NTFS really secure?
I have Mac PC, in which I have created a Windows partition and have installed Windows using Boot Camp. If I log in to the Mac OS, I can read all the files from the Windows partition from Mac. If I compare the same scenario from within Windows, Windows claims to secure a user's private files (stored…
Convert mp3 to ogg vorbis
Is there a command-line utility to convert mp3s to ogg vorbis that I can install with apt-get? Alternatively, is there an extension for nginx so I can point it to a directory with mp3 files and have it serve ogg files on the fly?
How does S/MIME differ from PGP/GPG, for the purpose of signing and/or encrypting email?
In addition to the titular question, are the two technologies compatible? If so, under what circumstances? What are the relative benefits of the two technologies?
Why is desktop.ini "Ready to Be Written to the Disc" of any CD or DVD inserted under Windows 7?
I have a netbook with an external CD/DVD burner running Windows 7 Starter. Whenever I put any CD or DVD (doesn't have to be blank) in the drive and navigate to its path in Windows Explorer, it tells me under "Files Currently on the Disc": Files Ready to Be Written to the Disc (1) desktop.ini 23/03/…
Linux Ping: Show time out
How can I make the Linux ping to show the requests 'time out' instead of omitting the output? Just like the Windows version of ping.
What is "upstream"?
I always hear people saying it's better to "merge upstream" and stuff like that when it comes to designing software and the like. I have a feeling it's to do with mainstream linux kernel stuff but I'm probably wrong. And also, what is the opposite of "upstream". If it isn't good to go "upstream" wh…
Changing current version of Java within Windows
I'm working in a Windows XP environment and have recently installed java 1.6 because it was required by an application. However I don't want this to be the default version of java to be used. How do I set it so that the command java -version will return 1.5.x
Why is Thunar not creating and showing thumbnails of images?
Thunar is my main file manager. Normally it automatically creates thumbnail images of all images in the directory being viewed. After experimenting with other Linux distros then installing Arch Linux once and for all, Thunar is not showing thumbs. Image files all get the same generic image icon. Go…
Convert web pages to one file for ebook
I want to download HTMLs (example: http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus6/) and join it to one HTML or some other format that i can use on ebook reader. Sites with free books don't have standard paging, they're not blogs or forums, so don't know how to do some automatic crawling and merging.