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Is there any *good* HTML-mode for emacs?
I love emacs, and I want to do my web-programming work in it, but I can't find a way to get it to edit HTML properly. I mean it's seriously awful. It will do HTML fine, but not PHP, javascript, etc. I tried getting html-helper-mode... I downloaded it, put it in /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp, and…
Can I burn a CD ISO to DVD?
So can I burn an CD ISO to DVD? We've just got a bunch of DVD-R's lying around and I don't want to bother with torrents to download the new Fedora DVD.
How can I emulate middle click in Windows on a touchpad?
On my laptop, the touchpad drivers for it allowed me to emulate middle click by clicking both the left and right mouse buttons at the same time. I'd like to have the same feature on with my netbook's touchpad. How might I go about doing this?
Alternative for WinMerge in Ubuntu
I need to compare/diff/merge files in an easy way. In windows I would use WinMerge. What alternatives for this are available in Ubuntu? The things I must be able to do: See 2 files line by line next to each other, with the differences highlighted Have an option for merging this files together
How much does a gigabyte worth of data physically weigh on a hard disk?
What is the physical weight of one gigabyte of memory/storage? Lets say this is on a hard disk. What is the weight associated with the atoms that are actually storing the data on the disk? How has this value changed as densities of disks have increased?
Best PNG Compression Software?
I've just been trying to compress an image with the PNG image format and have had varying results from different applications. For reference, the image I am trying to compress is a screenshot of this site. Here's a download of the original image. Here are some results I have so far in order of best…
What are my options for a multi-Terabyte home NAS?
I've got alot of DVDs and have been slowly ripping, encoding, and tagging them and I've nearly filled my WD MyBook 1TB. I'm estimating that I've got about 1.5 or 2Tb to go to complete my current collection. I've spent alot of time on the files, and the peril they are in recently struck home. I had …
What's the difference between the commands "su -s" and "sudo -s"?
What is the difference between the two super user commands, and ? They both give a shell with access to the superuser account.
Which software raid modes does each version of Windows 7 support?
Being familiar with the software raid modes and dynamic disks from the server versions, I was wondering if there is a document or even just common crowd knowledge that indicated what software raid support was available for each version of Windows 7. Also - all the various raid levels supported for …
Why are the keys named Ctrl & Alt?
Possible Duplicate: What are the origins of the control and alt keys? I use these keys often as modifiers for shortcuts including the infamous copy and paste and some tab-switching but I don't understand why they're named and . Why are they named the way they are?
MySQL command line color prompt
I want to add colors to the MySQL command line color prompt. I have so far in a script (database.sh): I would like to be red, to be blue, to be green and to be cyan: Is it possible to do this in my script?
Is there a way to configure the directory SQL Developer uses to save SQL scripts?
Is there a way to configure the directory SQL Developer uses to save SQL scripts? When I do ... ... the directory is always set to the for my user. I'd like to set the default to a directory in my dev source code tree.
How to check whether there is bad sector on an external USB hard disk on OS X?
How can I check whether there are any bad sectors on an externally connected USB hard disk drive?
Quick replace #N/A by 0 when vlookup
I use a lot in excel. The problem is with value when the seek value is not found. In that case, we often replace it by 0 using which repeat vlookup(what,range,column,false) twice and make the formula look ugly & dummy to me. Do you have other work around for this issue?
Retrieve Linux command line history by date
I want to see what I typed on my bash command line on a certain day a week ago. Is there a way to retrieve command line history? Something like below, perhaps?
What causes bash to pause after a bad command?
When you are typing a bad command, say you want to do: But instead you type too fast and end up hitting enter between l and s, so you get: This happens all the time of course, when we type fast. What I'm curious about is the source of the 2.5 second (on my system) pause after the bad command text a…
Why can't I change the name of a file that's being read on Windows as I can do on Linux/Mac?
One of the things that has puzzled me ever since I started using Linux is the fact that it allows you to change the name of a file or even delete it while it is being read. An example is how I accidentally tried to delete a video while it was playing. I succeeded, and was surprised as I learnt that…
wget - download all files but not preceding folders
I'm using wget to download all files from within a folder using the -r and -np options. However this also downloads the preceding folders, which I don't want. For example: this downloads all files from within "images" (which is good) but then also downloads the folders articles, artist and images (…
Using 'head' or 'tail' on HUGE text file - 19 GB
I have a problem with viewing chunks of a very large text file. This file, approximately 19 GB, is obviously too big to view by any traditional means. I have tried and ( and ) with both commands piped together in various ways (to get at a piece in the middle) with no luck. My Linux machine running …
Where does yum save the RPM files it downloads?
Is there a temporary folder I can find the RPM's that yum downloads to install programs? During an installation yum shows the exact name of the RPM file but I don't know how to find it. How can I search for the RPM if I know the name of it?