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Does laptop charger wastes electric current when not connected to the laptop?
Wonder if when I leave it connected to the outlet but not connected to the laptop, it still consumes electricity.
plugin to show anchors in an HTML page?
I often find my self looking for a link that will drop me in the middle of a web page. Often I find that the page has the needed tags but no easy way (e.g. a table of contents) to find them. Does anyone know of a plugin that shows where/what those tags are? I'd need chrome but answered for others w…
How do I mark mail as read in Lotus Notes without actually opening the email?
How do I mark mail as read in Lotus Notes without actually opening the email? Every other email client I have used has this option somewhere. I am using Lotus Notes 8. Thank you.
Why does this not work? "ls *.txt | xargs cat > all.txt" (all files into single txt document)
Why does this not work? (I want to join the contents of all text files into a single 'all.txt' file.) find with -exec should also work, but I would really like to understand the xargs syntax. Thanks
How do I increase terminal scrollback buffer size?
I'm using CentOS 5.4 servers installed in a VMWare virtual machine with no X.Org server installed, so all access is via command line and the Linux terminal. I use Shift + Page Up to view the scrollback buffer, but its size is very limited. How do I increase the size of the scrollback buffer?
Access to the Windows Startup directory via Run
What is the command to type in the Windows Run that opens the user's Startup directory? it's of a format similar to %windir% for Windows and %appdata% for application data the site Computer Productivity has lots of the shortcuts, but not Startup I'm trying to reduce RSI, so I try to use keyboard sh…
What command shows the architecture of a binary file on Mac?
I used it a while ago, but cannot find now.
Hide certain files in NERDTree
I would like to hide object files (*.o) in the Vim NERDTree plugin. Does the plugin support this feature, yet?
How do you sort files in OS X Finder so folders appear at the top?
How do you sort files in OS X Finder so folders appear at the top? There doesn't seem to be any option in View Options.
Can you do Regular Expressions in Excel without VBScript?
I'm looking for an Excel function that I can put in a cell to do a regex search of the contents of another cell. Is there anything available to do this? I'd prefer not to have to add VB Script to the spreadsheet for this because I can hard-code a solution faster. It's just that the fastest solution…
What is .Trash and .Trash-1000?
Can someone tell me what these folders (.Trash and .Trash-1000) mean? They just appeared in my mountpoint and I'm wondering how?
How to get accurate window information (dimensions, etc.) in Linux (X)?
How can I get accurate window information in Linux? I know that I can use wmctrl to get a window's size, but the actual size of the window can vary due to window decorations. I need the following information and methods: What would be the best way to do this? Thanks in advance!
Automatically resize picture/image in Word?
I'm using Microsoft Word 2007. I have several large screenshots that need to be inserted into the document at various places. When I paste the pictures, I have to manually resize them to fit within the margins of the document. This takes up too much of my time. I tried batch resizing the images bef…
Running commands in parallel with a limit of simultaneous number of commands
Sequential: - too slow Parallel: - too much load How to run commands in parallel, but not more than, for example, 20 instances per moment? Now usually using hack like , but this is not a good solution. Update 2: Converted the accepted answer into a script: http://vi-server.org/vi/parallel Note that…
How do I customize zsh's vim mode?
Ok, so I finally made the great change. In my .zshenv, I changed my EDITOR: There are a couple of questions I have that are so minor that I didn't want to start separate questions for them. Here they are: How do I get zsh to distinguish between insert mode and command mode like in vim? Preferably t…
Appearing visible to selected contacts in Skype
How can we appear visible to selected contacts while remaining invisible to others?
Why do different manufacturers have different S.M.A.R.T value?
First of all, I think everyone knows that hard drives fail a lot more than the manufacturers would like to admit. Google did a study that indicates that certain raw data attributes that the S.M.A.R.T status of hard drives reports can have a strong correlation with the future failure of the drive. W…
Getting IP Address of Access Point
recently I turned my Router to a wireless access point for my home network. Unfortunately, I forgot to note down the AP's IP Address and Subnet. How do I reliably get the IP of my AP? Thank's in advance. EDIT: OS is Vista XP, but I have xubuntu dual booted. Ok so the configuration is as follow: PCs…
How do I set Thunderbird to notify me of new emails in only certain folders?
I use Gmail with Thunderbird, which is working great, except for the part where I get a new email. It shows me the new email twice when notifying because it appears in both the inbox and All Mail folders. I know I can just unsubscribe to the All Mail folder, but then I can't back it up like many pe…
Is zip's encryption really bad?
The standard advice for many years regarding compression and encryption has been that the encryption strength of zip is bad. Is this really the case in this day and age? I read this article about WinZip (it has had the same bad reputation). According to that article the problem is removed provided …