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Is it possible to tunnel https traffic via ssh tunnel with standard ssh-programs?
Can I reroute the https traffic (of an svn repository) via ssh-tunnel. The problem is that the the services that use https don't work if I just create one tunnel for listening with e.g.: Do I have to do something else? The aim is to tunnel https://PROJECT.googlecode.com/svn/ where PROJECT is the pr…
Flashing window in gnu screen
I really like but there is a problem in my environment when I use it. Examle: when you click to perform autocompletion there is a screen flashing for a very short period of time(looks like white screen but I can see it for a very-very short time). There isn't any problems with that when I execute t…
How to boot a physical Windows partition with qemu?
I have gentoo and windows 7 installed alongside on my only hard drive. I want to start my windows install from within gentoo through qemu. Boot menu works fine but windows bluescreens on me soon after I select it. How would I make it work? (I assume windows is missing drivers required for the qemu-…
Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine"
I have downloaded and installed a new theme before in my fedora machine. However, I got this warning when I load gvim, nautilus every time. How can I download this theme engine?? and remove this warning?
installing node.js after apt-get install node
Im trying to install and I made the mistake of installing . Which is not . I'm able to find the right on git hub, build and make everything. Everything seems to be installed. But I get this error when executing Any ideas on how to make work? Also, on ubuntu 10.04 if it helps
How can I achieve separate colors for current, local, and remote ref names when using a custom git log format?
I have a custom git log format that I use. I have set in my . For example this simple format: This would print something like HEAD, local, remote will be output without color compared to which will outupt HEAD (in 'bold cyan'), local (in 'bold green') and remote (in 'bold red') with color. Now I ca…
Regex Replace from Command line
Is it possible to regex replace from command line? Right now I'm using notepad++ to do this. In command line I can only use FINDSTR wich can only locate the mached files/lines EDIT : Maybe it will be possible to make a VB script and run it from cmd? I just created a file "hi.vbs" with the content T…
How to stop Excel from Auto-formatting and making it work like a number crunching program
I have a real problem with Excel in csv files where it is formatting numbers in certain ways and I cannot seem to get Excel to display the data right no matter what I do. Imagine I have a colum called "Product Reference". Within that column I have many IDs of the type: 001145 55666 02133 Whenever I…
Can Apple Lossless audio be converted to FLAC with no loss of fidelity?
Can Apple Lossless audio files (ALAC) be converted to FLAC audio files with no loss of fidelity?
Why is chkdsk using 90% of my RAM?
When I built my new computer, I gave my old one to my parents who were in dire need of an upgrade, after cleaning everything out of it, of course, leaving just the OS and a few programs. It worked fine for a while, before it started to fail to load Windows (it would just get stuck). After investiga…
Is there any difference between standby, suspend and off DPMS modes on LCD dislays?
All three of these modes seem to have the same effect on my display. Same blanking and waking time. Are there any differences in power consumption or something else?
How do I animate only one word in a row?
I have a list of bullet points in my slide. In each row, I'd like to animate one word only, to give the word emphasis. But I see I can only animate a whole row. Is there any way to animate a single word?
How to install the SQLite PDO extension on Ubuntu
The default Ubuntu PHP package does not include the PDO SQLite extension. How can I install the SQLite PDO extension? Is there a package that one can easily install via ?
What is the meaning of kill %1
I have seen the following command: What is the usage of this statement?
Removing the avahi-daemon on Ubuntu
My Ubuntu server basically servers a Python Django site using Apache and Postgre. We SSH to it to configure some stuff from time to time but that's about it for the server. Since I'm trying to harden my installation, I'm trying to remove all useless processes and open ports. I've seen that there's …
Open two instances of the same app on Mac OS X
I am looking for a trick in which to open the same app twice. Let me explain. For example, I have an app called SQLite Database Browser but it can only handle one SQL DB at a time. I would like to start another SQLite DB Browser so I can open another SQL DB file. How do I do that?
Onboard RAID vs Software RAID
My motherboard, an Asus M4a79t Deluxe, advertises RAID 0/1/5 capabilities. My limited understanding is that onboard RAID is better than software RAID. Is this necessarily true? Is an onboard RAID controller closer in performance to a software controller or a dedicated hardware controller?
Is it OK to copy (not clone) a git repository using basic Unix commands?
I’m pretty new to using git and was wondering if it’s ok to copy a Git repository with common UNIX commands (like or / ), rather than through . I’m in the situation where I have a production environment (python virtual) that some code checked out in git in it. I’m wondering if it's a bad idea from …
How to close or (unbind?) a port left open by a rogue application?
I am using Fedora 13 64bit. My eclipse program starts a server on port 9050 but I shutdown the program, eclipse fails to properly shutdown the server. Restarting eclipse has no effect. How can I close or unbind a port forcibly from command line? I know rebooting or log off and back on will clear th…
Chrome/Chromium - disable HTML5 LocalStorage and Databases for all webpages /or ask user
My question is about fine tuning of Chrome or Chromium browser. It have support of new generation of cookies: HTML5 LocalStorage and Databases. Some ad sites uses LocalStorage to do user tracking, some other sites uses this too. Also, chrome plugins (extensions) often uses localstorage to keep sett…