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How to scroll the terminal emulator window in smaller steps using the keyboard?
How could I scroll up and down the bash shell window (without the mouse or scroll bars, just using the keyboard)? Shift+PageUp and Shift+PageDown acts like page up and page down. But how could one scroll just one line up or down? Shift+Up and Shift+Down doesn't work.
What is acpitz-virtual?
gives the following output for this machine: I would like to know what the sensor is. It seems to be some sort of replication of acpi thermal zones but only contains so there don't seem to be any temperature sensors. Can somebody make sense of this?
Can I have my terminal background change based on hostname?
I'd like to have my terminal background color change based on hostname. My reasoning for this is mainly to have and extra way to remind myself what server I am on, so I don't do something stupid. Is there someway I can have it use the standard aubergine background if I am on my local machine, then …
Linux: How to monitor incoming pings
Can I somehow monitor incoming pings on a Linux machine? netcat doesn't seem to support that.
How can I silently install Google Chrome?
I want to make a silent installation of Google Chrome Beta. I've tried invoking the downloader with or but nothing worked. Then I've downloaded the standalone installation version, and tried the same, but got the same result – the silent installation doesn't work. Basically what I need is to avoid …
Where is the log file generated by a verbose start-up in OS X Lion?
After starting up my machine in verbose mode (cmd + v at start-up) I want to view the generated log messages, to debug an error I'm receiving (the error). The error is only displayed on the screen briefly during startup, before the machine reboots. As a result, there's no time to read it properly. …
Opening Explorer shell with admin privileges on XP (with IE7 installed)
I used to demote my user account so that it had no admin priveleges and used a 'sudo-like' trick where you create a shortcut to IE6 and enabled the 'Run with different credentials' option to open a shell window as local admin so I could install and uninstall things, etc. When I upgraded to IE7 this…
What are the differences between MBR vs GPT vs any other partition scheme?
Can anyone tell me what the main differences between i.e. MBR vs GPT or any other partition scheme are? Why would one choose one over the other? I am not an expert but from new release of Mac OS X which includes a feature called Time Machine, which I find highly useful. GPT is the requirement for M…
What do the power management tools in Linux do? (acpi, pm-utils, etc...)
I am really really confused about the power management tools available for Linux: I have Arch Linux with XFCE on my laptop. The guides on the the Arch Linux wiki list to manage power, suspension, disks and CPU, WiFi, etc. But I can't understand what the relationships between them are. Apparently th…
Remote management of parents' computers
Possible Duplicate: Free remote desktop app good for working with someone computer illiterate? I am looking for something that I can install on my parents' and grandparents' laptops to help me remotely manage them. The requirements are: On their end it has to be something that silently sits in the …
Notepad++ doesn't launch (notepad++.exe present in the task manager)
Yesterday Notepad++ was runnable, but today it doesn't. In spite of the notepad++.exe (with its 13 process) presence is the tasks manager, Notepad++ window doesn't launch. I tried to uninstall and re-install the sofware (and the first launch works), notepad.exe is present in C:\Windows and C:\Windo…
Unable to delete folder in windows 7?
I'm unable to delete some folder on my external hard disk. I tried them to delete in safe mode too but I'm not able to perform this. This is a big headache to me now. Even I'm the admin and it still needs the admin privileges to delete them. So how can I get rid of from this trouble? Please help me!
How do I open an apple keynote file in windows?
I only have the .key presentation file and cannot ask the author to export it to ppt nor do I have an Apple computer available.
Changing name of Space in Mac OS X Lion
Is there any way to change the name of a space on Lion? I'm sure that it's not possible to change the name of a space being taken up by a full screen app, but is it possible to change the name of the "Desktop #" spaces?
Why is bash completion being loaded so slow on OS X?
I don't understand why bash completion is loaded so slow on my MacBook Pro. I did the following in my : the execution time for bash_completion typically is > 2 seconds. I find that really annoying when I am working on the terminal which requires me to constantly open new tabs. Is there a way I can …
IE9: Permanently accept untrusted certificate
When accessing a website via HTTPS which has an untrusted certificate, Internet Explorer 9 always shows me the following error message: Is there a way to import the certificate permanently, so that I don't have to click away this message every time? I don't have access to the root certificate the c…
How can I prioritise network bandwidth on a per application basis?
Is there a way in Linux to give a specific application more/less priority for network bandwidth? Something like how does for CPU priority. Context: I'm currently on a very low bandwidth connection (3G dongle). While I'm performing a quite large upgrade using , it becomes virtually impossible to bro…
Eclipse IDE: How to have the file selected in Project Explorer when focusing on a certain file's tab?
Say I have multiple files opened in Eclipse IDE. I just want Eclipse to show the file in the Project file tree, when I have certain file opened. Just like in NetBeans. In NetBeans when you focus on some opened file, the left tree will be updated and the file will be located in the left (files tree).
How to use wildcards with ls without listing directory contents?
ls typically displays only the files and folders in the present directory. But once you add a wildcard it starts searching in sub-directories. example: How do you limit the scope to only the current directory? Using OS X
What makes a laptop overheat?
Is there a correlation between CPU usage and heat? RAM usage? Other things? How can software affect overheating in a laptop?