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How to connect to memcached from another machine
I'm trying to use memcached from a different machine (which has access to my server), but I can't figure out how. on the memcached machine I can test the connection by running And it works, but on the other machine it just keeps trying to connect I'm not sure if I should set up something else to ge…
Copy Folders from one Unix server to another?
I would like to copy a folder from one Unix server to another Unix server. Can anyone tell me if there is a method or command to to achieve this?
HTML or rich e-mails do not work with Enigmal in Thunderbird
I would like to be able to receive HTML/rich e-mails, but since I installed Enigmail for Thunderbird, this has not been possible. All e-mails are shown as plain text or not shown at all. This has some positive sides, but some e-mails come though with very strange formatting. How can I enable HTML/r…
Mouse gets stuck in lower edge of screen on portrait oriented window
I have dual monitors running on a laptop. laptop monitor 22" monitor the 22" is portrait oriented and when I try to move the mouse back and forth it will get stuck in the 22" unless I am high enough to pass over. Is there a way to fix/override this behavior?
Why does pulling the power cord then pressing the power button fix a non-booting PC?
I've been working at this institution for about 6 years. One thing thing that I've always found curious is that sometimes—especially after a power outage—we find a PC that won't boot when the power button is pressed. Usually, the fans will spin up, but it won't POST. Our solution is to pull the pow…
Start Firefox from Terminal on Mac OS X
This is what I get when I try to start the executable: I also tried: Is there a particular way to start the application from the command line?
/bin/sh source from stdin (from other program) not file
Kind of a tricky one to name this... Basically I have a program which when run prints on STDOUT a set of shell variables: I want to run this from within a shell script as if the STDOUT were being evaluated with . I'd like to do something like ... ... but of course that doesn't work. I know I could …
Why aren't all CPUs 'overclocked' as a factory default?
Possible Duplicate: Why are modern CPUs “underclocked”? When I was searching around for a desktop awhile back I came across a lot of discussions where techies talked about taking an e.g. 2.67GHz processor and 'overclocking' it so that it ran at 4GHz. If a CPU is capable of such speed at all, why do…
Open-VM-Tools vs VMware-Tools
What is the difference between the Open-VM-Tools package and the tool that come with VMware ESX/ESXi? The wondering this because the ones from VMware are not compiled for anything but RPM and I use Debian. In the past I just compiled them on each machine as per VMware instructions. But there are a …
Running Windows Powershell Scripts simply opens it in the editor
I have a Windows powershell script that works fine in the interactive editor. The script is a simple one line sql cmd: When I enter that at the powershell command prompt it works fine. I save it in a ps1 file and try to run it from the cmd prompt by typing .\filename.ps1, it opens it in Notepad, an…
List open Firefox tabs from the command line?
Is there a way to list the open tabs in Firefox from the command line?
git: how can i config git to ignore file permissions changes
I have some git projects in a linux server. i use Mac and linux to do my programming. the problem is that the mac filesystem's permissions doesn't really work well like in linux so all the files seems to be on umask 0755. so whenever i pull my code on my mac, shows that all my files are changed and…
When middle-clicking links, why does my browser sometimes open two tabs?
For around a year I have had an issue with my USB mouse's middle button action whilst browsing the web. If I use the middle button to open any link, about 5% of the time it will open two new tabs instead of just one. In addition, if I use the middle button to close a tab, it can sometimes mistakenl…
Is there a work around to configure brightness or color on a DisplayLink monitor?
I run 3 monitors in addition to my laptop display at work - two of the monitors are using DisplayLink adapters. I've always thought that all my displays were too bright (and possibly give me headaches?) - even after I reduced their brightness as far as possible using the monitor menus and the nvidi…
7-zip & Windows 7: Make "Extract to <folder>" default on double-click
I'm trying to find a way to make the action you can perform from the context menu, "Extract to " the default action when double-clicking the file instead of simply launching 7-zip. Is there a simple way to do this? In the alternative, I gather I could try passing parameters into the following: But …
How can I determine which RAM module is failing Memtest86?
One or many of the memory cards out of total 4GB (4x1GB) are failing. The following is memtest progress screenshot. It is always pointing to memory at 19xx MB and 50xx MB. Error bits are always 04000000. How can I determine which of those 4 cards are failing? The strange thing is that if I test the…
Do I need all Microsoft .NET Framework versions?
I have 4 Microsoft .NET Framework versions: 1.1 2.0 Service Pack 2 3.0 Service Pack 2 3.5 SP1 Do I need them all?
How many MB/sec can I expect copying to USB 3.0 enclosure with SATA drive?
I have a new laptop with USB 3.0 ports, and a new SATA 5200 rpm hard drive I just put into a new USB 3.0 enclosure. I am copying my backups from the local hard drive to the new USB 3.0 hard drive/enclosure. It has settled at 26.1 MB/sec. Is that the speed I should expect, or might something be wron…
How to pass custom options to configure when building a package with debuild?
Short background: I'm using Debian Sid. Currently the audacity package is conflicting with the pidgin package, because gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad are outdated. I'm trying to rebuild it, but one of the unit tests is failing as one plugin I don't need is causing a segfault. I need to disable these tes…
What are the differences between the IPv6 options in AirPort Utility?
In AirPort Utility, my Time Capsule has under Manual Setup->Advanced->IPv6 the options , , and . What are the differences between these options, and which one should be used in which situations?