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Why am I seeing ads on websites including Wikipedia?
I was reading about hash functions on Wikipedia when this ad popped up. I was appalled and flabbergasted and annoyed to find advertisements akin to this one dotting my article like sprinkles on a cupcake. Annoying popups appear after you hover over them. I now notice that these ads are appearing on…
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.
How to do an inverse search in Vim? (i.e., get lines not containing pattern)
With I can do a to get all the lines without "my search". With I can to find replace text on lines with out "baz". Is there a way to do the same thing in Vim? And is it possible to do it without "s///" syntax, and only using the "/" search syntax?
How to take a screenshot of Window's secure desktop?
By default, Windows Vista/7/8's UAC prompt is shown on a secure desktop. Unfortunately the Print Screen key doesn't seem to have any effect when viewing the secure desktop. I can see the reasoning behind this - no user-mode application should be able to capture the contents of the secure desktop. H…
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…
Which resize algorithm to choose for videos?
I'm using VirtualDub for encoding with those settings. However I record my stuff in 1920x1080 and resize it down to 1280x720. Now the question: which algorithm should I choose when making a balanced quality vs. file-size decision? I always went with Lanczos because that's what was pre-configured. T…
How do I change my default browser to an unlisted program in Windows 7?
I use multiple browsers regularly, so I've written a script that will open pages in whatever browser is already running (or Firefox if there is none). I want to set this script as my default browser. When I go to the "Set Associations" dialog, select HTTP, and click "Change Program", the dialog tha…
Why do web pages take so much RAM?
After leaving a bunch of pages open in Chrome, my computer gets sluggish. Windows Task Manager shows that some pages take a lot of RAM: Why do they take so much RAM? Is there a way to know how much RAM each page takes, so that I investigate? Thank you.
Is there a USB wall charger that "just works" with every device?
Background Almost every gadget today is charged over USB. It seems like a good idea since everyone has a computer with USB, but fumbling behind a computer and making sure that computer is on and does not sleep for the duration of the charge is a pain, not to mention you need to unmount drives and s…
How to search for newline or linebreak characters in Excel?
I've imported some data into Excel (from a text file) and it contains some sort of newline characters. It looks like this initially: If I hit F2 (to edit) then Enter (to save changes) on each of the cells with a newline (without actually editing anything), Excel automatically changes the layout to …
How to set up a shortcut to a directory in Mac OS X Terminal?
What I'd like to be able to do is when I'm in Terminal is to type: And for it to go straight to a directory I have a set up with this alias. Is this possible? I did do a google for it and Aliases may be what I want, but I couldn't get it to work.
Vim colors not working properly in terminal
I'm using gnome terminal, and vim with solarized color theme. When I open vim in the terminal, it's illegible. But when I open a file in gvim, the color scheme works perfectly. Gnome terminal's color scheme is also solarized. One thing to note is that, if I set an illegal value for background, I ge…
Is it possible to alias a username on Linux?
I'm not sure if this has a practical application at all (aside from the fact that I am lazy. you know "christopher" has 11 characters, and I want to type 1), but is it possible to alias a username on Linux? (So I could, for example, as opposed to .) I currently use Ubuntu as my primary machine, but…
How to find out xorg version? or "what's my xorg version?"
ATI docs says i need: XOrg 6.9, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 or 7.6 says:
How to open a new window from dock if it's already running in OSX
I'm new to OSX and the thing I miss from Windows 7 is the ability to open a new window if you hold the Shift key and press on the Applications icon within the task bar. Similarly, OSX does have a function where if you press the middle button (the scroll wheel button), it does open a new window. I h…
Conditionally format a cell if it contains formula
Is it possible to conditionally format a cell if the cell contains formula (to alert myself and other users when updating the cell)?
How do I split a large WinRAR file using WinRAR?
I have a .rar file, (already compressed) and I need to split it. Can this be done through the WinRAR UI?
How to get real-time network statistics in Linux with KB/MB/Bytes format and for specific port or application processID?
I used , , , , . None of them is helping me to find real-time packets that are being sent/received from my application in KB or MB format. The reason is I am writing an application, where I need to be very sure my compression is correct, but I can't test to move forward. What I can use to track ver…
Use a specified key from ssh-agent
Along the lines of How to tell git which private key to use? I would like to use a specific ssh key in a given situation. My problem is that even when I specify '-i something' ssh uses the keys from my ssh-agent in the order they are added. My specific situation: I have two github users, each with …
List members of a Windows group using command line
I would like to get a list of "normal" users in the Windows command line. By normal, I mean the users that appear when logging on to the computer. Thus, disabled accounts, accounts like System, and others that an average PC users would never log into, would not be in this list. I also need to know …