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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
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…
Why don't the sizes of my folders add up to the size of my hard drive in Windows?
I'm thinking of installing an SSD on my machine at home, and the easiest way to do this is basically to clone my current hard drive over to the new SSD. Trouble is, if I right click on my current hard drive and select properties, my used space is 230GB, thus requiring me to buy a monster SSD. Howev…
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 do I uncompress vmlinuz to vmlinux?
I have already tried uncompress, gzip, and all other solutions that come up as google results and these have not worked for me. To get just the image search for the GZ signature - . so the image begins at . Then just copy the image from the point and decompress it - Got these instructions verbatim …
How to make Putty do the equivalent of "ssh -X"?
I want to connect to a Linux server from my Windows 7 desktop. I can successfully ssh in, but I want the equivalent of "ssh -X", so that I can open GUI programs and actually see them.
Does Windows 7 have .NET 4 installed by default?
I offered software where .NET 4.0 is needed and promised, that Windows 7 already comes with this framework. If not, the user can use the integrated "Windows Update" function to install the framework. My client said to me there is no Framework on Windows 7 Professional installed already. What are de…
How to place a shape on top of another shape in Visio 2010?
Okay this is driving me nuts. I'm using Visio 2010 in a completely blank template. Here is what I'm doing: I'm drawing a simple rectangle I draw a second simple rectangle I'm trying to drag rectangle 1 over rectangle 2. Every time I try to drag rectangle 1 over rectangle 2, the 1st rectangle snaps …
Determine which Opera tab uses 100% CPU?
Sometimes a tab gets stuck at using all CPU time it can get. I know theres a way to check which one for Chrome or Firefox -- is there a native method and/or extension to do this in Opera? Checking pages one by one in another browser is not a solution. Firstly, I can get the same effect selectively …
How to install pip and easy_install on CentOS
I tried to install and on my CentOS but could not find them. How can I install them? Also, I have two versions of Python, 2.4 and 2.7. How will make sure to link newly installed components with Python 2.7?
Why does apt-get sometimes asks for confirmation?
Sometimes it does this: And sometimes not, and just assumes 'yes' and downloads automatically (I can't paste the actual output because I don't know how to reproduce it). Why?
How can I take screenshots of the PC before it boots up?
How can I take a screenshot of the PC before it has started up? For example: If I wanted to take a screenshot of my BIOS and send it to the Network Admin for review Windows installation screenshots such as those seen on this site - Windows is not yet installed! Any ideas?
Using the IdentityFile directive in ssh_config when AgentForwarding is in use
Is it possible to specify forwarded keys using the IdentityFile directive in .ssh/config? I ran into this quirk when trying to deploy some code via Capistrano/GIT on our production server. Both my personal and my work GIT keys are always loaded in my SSH agent and it just so happened that my person…
Using the watch command with an argument that contains quotes
I'm trying to get watch to work correct with commands that contain quotes, and the watch man page isn't very detailed about how quotes work. To give a concrete example, how can I run the following command inside of watch: I've tried: and but neither of these works correctly.
Bad sound quality of 3.5mm headphone with mic on laptop
I have a set of headphones that have a built-in mic for hands-free calling. They work great on my Sony Ericsson Cedar cellphone. The problem is that when I connect headphone to my Dell N5010 laptop to listen to music, the quality is horrible, with very weak or no vocals. When I hold down the talk b…
Can't set "example.com" as a CNAME record?
I'm currently running a server at home, but I have a dynamic IP. So I subscribed to a dynamic dns service(dlinkddns.com). I made all the correct settings in my own network, and the ip updates perfectly. The problem is that I have a domainname(let's say: "example.com"), and I want to set the root do…
How to prevent programs (e.g. Process Monitor) from killing my SSD in 2 weeks?
I just got my first SSD - Intel 320 Series 120GB yesterday. And I have SSDLife monitoring in the background. I have TRIM enabled. After I have installed all software, and did some basic testings. SSDLife said "Total Data written, GB" = 52.1 (40GB used space, 70GB free space). In order to extend the…
Set Powershell as the default shell of Far Manager?
Can I set Powershell as the default shell of Far Manager?
OpenVPN client as SOCKS 5 server?
Are there any Windows applications that can connect to a remote OpenVPN server then act like a SOCKS 5 server in the local environment? EDIT: which means a local server speaks VPN/OpenVPN protocol, bind to a port as socks proxy server extract and run, can be installed without administrator/root pri…
bind tmux prefix to OS X cmd key (or any other binding)
I'm used to iTerm2 (or Terminal.app for this case) on OS X. But I want to move to use tmux (or screen, but the problem is similar to both apps). So my idea is to have a single iTerm tab with a tmux session opened with multiple tabs. To do the transition I have a basic feature I need to configure on…