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What is the easiest way to get a detailed list of the hardware in my Windows box?
I'm running a Windows 7 release candidate, but I'm pretty sure there's a way to do it that works on XP and above.
Tiling Window Manager
I've been looking into tiling window managers because I'm tired of manually positioning and resizing all my windows whenever I want to see some information side by side. However, the tiling window managers I've investigated so far seem rather minimalist and seem mainly for rearranging terminal wind…
Dedicated mouse and keyboard for a virtual machine, is it possible?
Let's say I have a PC with two monitors atached. I'm running e.g. Windows Vista natively, and start up a virtual Ubuntu PC. I change to fullscreen mode so that on one Monitor, I see my Windows Desktop, and on the other one, the Ubuntu Desktop. I can now use my mouse and Keybord for both of them. Th…
Where is Google Chrome Crash Dump Located?
I am going Google Chrome, on Windows XP. Sometimes it crashed, and I want to know where the crash dump is located, just for fun.
How do I convert an animated GIF to a YouTube friendly video format?
My son has made some animations with Pivot Stickfigure Animator which we'd like to upload to YouTube. The problem is Pivot saves as animated GIFs which I can't upload to YouTube. The Wikipedia article recommends using Windows Movie Maker to convert GIF to WMV, but unfortunately I'm using Windows 7 …
Can a 32 bit OS run in a 64 bit processor?
What's the difference between 32 bit OS and 64 bit OS? Can a 32 bit OS run in a 64 bit processor?
What Windows services can I safely disable?
I'm trying to improve the boot time and general performance of a Windows XP machine and figure the massive collection of services that Windows automatically starts have to have an impact. Are there any services that I can safely disable? If so what are they? Obviously the services are there for a r…
Is there a way to bookmark all tabs in Chrome?
Is there a way to bookmark all tabs in Chrome? I seem to remember this being out of the box in Firefox and I'd love to get the same functionality in Chrome. Perhaps it's an issue because each tab is a separate process?
How do I rar a file into several parts in Linux?
I want to make a rar file(not tar or gzip) with several parts in linux shell, how is it possible ? for example my file is : m.avi - 500mb I want this :
How to enable the new 3D page inspector view in Firefox 11
With firefox 11 there is a new feature called 3D page inspector which I would like to test because I think is really useful. However, I can't really find where this should be enable or how to do it! Can anyone help me with this? I'm going mad
Copy terminal output to Mac clipboard?
I need to directly copy the terminal stdout to the clipboard on Mac. How would I do this? Example: or
Why are so few SSD 3.5 inches?
I was looking around for a cheaper SSD on Newegg and the time I'm writing this they have almost 300 2.5-inch SSD but only 12 3.5-inch ones, 9 of which are sold out. Why are there so few 3.5-inch SSD? Is it just that the demand for these drives is mostly in laptops? Why should I have to pay more for…
How to type a Unicode character by its number in Emacs?
How to type a Unicode character by its number, e.g. for Unicode character (THREE-EM DASH) in Emacs?
How to properly end a KDE session from shell without root privileges
I am accessing the machine (OpenSuse 11 with KDE) over NX. I cannot use the Alt-Ctrl-Del shortcuts as it is captured by my system. The regular logoff button just ends the NX session without ending the KDE session. I cant call as I have no root privileges. Other wild guesses like and do not work eit…
Microsoft Word - When I hit tab, it no longer indents the bullet-point in a list
When I hit tab, it no longer indents the bullet-point in a list Steps to reproduce: Create a bulleted list Hit Enter to move to the next line; a bullet-point is created Hit Tab to indent the bullet-point to the next level In the past, step three would work. However, now, it just adds a tab (white s…
Fuzzy find within file in Vim
I love using the Command-T plugin in Vim to do fuzzy searches for filenames. I like it so much that I've started to want to do the same fuzzy searches for arbitrary strings within an open buffer. For example, if I'm editing a CSS file that contains a selector like , I can currently type to find tha…
Why can't my Browser resolve host, but ping and nslookup can?
I'm a bit stumped by this problem. My machine can ping google.com and www.google.com successfully. I get correct ips like 74.125.. When I try to go to google in Firefox or IE or Chrome, I get a typical dns error page. For some reason, Safari is still working. My first guess was a caching issue, but…
Interpreting output of cat/proc/cpuinfo
How does one interpret the information printed out by the following command in Linux On my laptop, I get the following output: Now it says that there are 4 processors on the system. There is also a field inside the information of each processor field which says cou cores are 2. Does that mean there…
Why can't I edit a "Program Files" file on Windows 7?
I'm having trouble editing this file on Windows 7: If I edit it in Cygwin (vi) or TextPad, those two programs see the changes, so it's getting written to disk somewhere. But if I "type" the file in a DOS cmd shell, it looks like the file hasn't been changed at all. One thing I noticed is that in th…
Is there any shortcut to iterate through Excel's worksheet tabs?
Is there any keyboard shortcut to iterate through Excel's worksheet tabs more easily? Maybe something that would allow me to see all the tabs together and select one of them to switch to it.