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How to force high-dpi scaling?
Short Version How can i force an application to be high-dpi scaled? Pretend there is an application, who's developers manifested it as high-dpi aware, when it really isn't. How can i force dpi-scaling? Pretend there is an applicaiton that Microsoft has applied the " " compatiblity shim, when the ap…
Symbolic links and 7zip
I'm trying to compress a folder into a .7z archive. This folder contains symbolic links to some other stuff outside the folder (both directories and files). Apparently 7zip just archives the link itself which is not what I intended. Is there a way to tell 7zip that I want it to archive the stuff th…
Access Denied using TakeOwn.exe
I have got this file that I can't delete. It happened after a system crash, so the CHKDSK kicked in upon next reboot. After that, I can't delete the file. This is on Windows Home Server, and the file is one of those hidden Thumbs.db, and my Windows Home Server reports a "File conflict" on the file,…
Rescuing files and commits from "no branch" in git
I started working on some files I had in a git submodule under another project. However, since it was a git submodule it never checked out "master" and instead just checked out the head and placed all the files in the folder in "no branch". Now that I've made some changes by accident to these files…
How do I reset the $PATH variable on Mac OS X?
I've messed up my path variable, and now some apps that I run raise errors saying Command Not Found (error 127) for commands like date and sleep. These commands work fine when executed directly in the shell. I'm guessing this has something to do with a malformed $PATH variable, and need to know how…
Adjust PDF Contrast with Adobe Reader/Acrobat?
We get PDF's from our professor to read for homework but they're often scanned documents, is there a way to adjust the contrast of the text to make it easier to read? Edit: I've got Photoshop but is there a way to do it from a PDF reader? Edit2: Windows XP, 7 ** Windows or Ubuntu Only **
How to record screencast on Linux with mouse clicks and key hits shown
Basically I'm looking for an application to record a series of tutorials for a program I wrote. It's important to show the actions like mouse click, mouse right click, and all what's coming out from the keyboard. In the similar way to this video http://www.flickr.com/photos/jannis/3246408003/ which…
Bring to front all windows for a certain application in Windows 7
Trying to find some key+click combination to bring all windows for a given application to the top of z-order. For example, I have several Putty terminal windows open in the stacked taskbar icon and I want to display all of them, not just the last used. The only work-around I have found so far is to…
How can I give arguments to time command (ubuntu)
I want to get a bit more information than the standard time command gives, so I want to pass the verbose flag. gives as example , however when I execute that (both in bash or tcsh) I get What am I doing wrong?
Is it possible to open a self-extracting compressed Windows file on a Mac?
If I have a compressed file that's stored as a self-extracting archive for Windows, i.e., a .exe file, is it possible to convert it to a zip file that can be unzipped under OS X? Alternatively, is there Mac program that can open one of these archives?
How to align image same as text in Word 2007?
Look at the following picture: This is Word 2007. is a MathType formula; the second formula is an image. I want the image to be treated exactly the same as the MathType formula, specifically the way it is aligned vertically on the same level as the text. How can I do that?
Change a favicon locally in google chrome
This is a frustrating question, mostly because all searches for this usually give me information on how to change a favicon for a website the user owns. Allow me to elaborate on my issue. I would like to be able to change the favicon that is displayed for one of the sites I visit regularly. This si…
Remote Desktop doesn't maximize to fullscreen
I have a problem with Remote Desktop connection in Windows 7. When I connect to remote computer I would like to switch to fullscreen like I did in previous versions - just by clicking maximize. When I was in fullscreen mode and I moved the mouse to the upper border of the screen, a nice bar appeare…
How to combine / merge zip files?
For the last several months I have copied several data folders to zip files at weekly intervals. Now I'd like to combine those zip files into one zip file, because most of the contents of the existing zip files are just different versions of the same data files. So if a file appears in more than on…
Samba+Windows: Allow multiple connections by different users?
I have a machine running Ubuntu with Samba that I use to share stuff with my family's Windows machines in our local network. Currently they access a share for movies/music/etc with one user. I want to connect them to another share as a different user (for example, user "goytacaz"). When I try conne…
How to extract a gpg file
I have a file that is compressed. I used a program to find out what kind of file it is and it says that it's a gpg file. How do you uncompress a gpg file?
How can I access EXT3 partitions on Windows 7?
Is there any way I can use ext3 partitions on Windows 7? I have tried to install http://www.fs-driver.org, but it doesn't seems to run on Windows 7.
Software to convert CHM files to EPUB/Kindle
I'm trying to decide whether to buy a Kindle 2, now that it's available in Europe. One thing I would like to do with it is to put several Windows help files on it (for example, the Python documentation). Is there a good way to convert a CHM file to a Kindle-readable format? Or is this something tha…
Automatically close program at a scheduled time each day
Is there a way to automagically determine if a program is running and close it at scheduled time, say 3 am every day? Maybe use task scheduler to close said application? if this is possible any direction would be appreciated. Vista or Win7
vim line wrap with indent
Vim/gvim will wrap long lines like this: Is there a way to get Vim to display these lines wrapped like this instead?: I want the wrapped line to start a little past the indent of where that line started. (Just to be clear, I'm talking about wrap, i.e. soft line breaks, not textwidth.) I want the in…