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Windows Updates Folders (With Strange Names) in C drive
I have a Windows XP Professional SP 3. In my C drive, I have a lot of folders which I do not know why they exist. Sample these names - What are they? Why are they created? Can I delete them?
Make wget download page resources on a different domain
How do you use wget to download an entire site (domain A) when its resources are on another domain, (domain B)? I've tried:
Replacement mouse "feet"?
The plastic skid pad "feet" on the bottom of my Logitech G9 mouse (which I love!) are getting rather worn down -- to the point that the outer shell of the mouse scrapes on the mousepad a bit. I've had the mouse for about ~2 years now so it does get a lot (I mean lot of use). However, I hate having …
Rip a website via HTTP to download images, HTML and CSS
I need to rip a site via HTTP. I need to download the images, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as well as organizing it in a file system. Does anyone know how to do this?
Font substitution with ~/.fonts.conf
I'm trying using ~/.fonts.conf to replace Helvetica with Droid Sans, here's the content of the file: but no matter what, nothing seems to happen. I tried running fc-cache, I have checked in and I found which seems to explicitly call user specific configurations. What am I missing? Thanks EDIT: afte…
No internet connection with Cisco VPN
I have a VPN connection set up using the Cisco VPN Client, and whenever I connect to it I lose my internet connection. This is the first time I have used this software, all previous VPNs I have used have been setup through Windows and I can uncheck the 'use remote gateway' box in the TCP-IP propert…
Is it possible to combine processing power of 2 computers?
Here are a few questions, I wish you could enlighten me. Is it possible to combine processing power of 2 computers? How do I do it?
Colored copy of PuTTY window
I need to copy colored text from PuTTY window without losing color information. Console is in UTF-8 mode. What is the best method? Any parsable output will do.
Why does Internet Explorer identify itself as Mozilla?
My version of Internet Explorer uses the following user agent: Why does it do this? Theoretically, can Mozilla Foundation sue Microsoft for use of their trademark?
Why are graphics cards upside-down?
This is something that has always bugged me - when I install a card into a desktop (ie mini tower) case, the fan is always facing down. Surely, making the card so the components and fan is on the top would help a lot with cooling, allowing those whiney fans to spin a little slower. I know some card…
What's a good macro recorder for Windows?
I'm looking for a tool that can record everything I do with my mouse/keyboard and playback recorded sessions. I've found some softwares that can replay macro using a script but none that can also record a session. I remember that my old 'mac classic' was able to do that 20 years ago. Can't I do tha…
Is your MAC address revealed when you hit up a website?
When you hit up a site, such as cnn.com, does the TCP/IP packet contain the MAC address of your network card? Could cnn.com theoretically record my MAC address?
Increase space between text lines in Photoshop
How do I increase the spacing between two lines (or leading) in a paragraph in Photoshop?
How do I recover the password of a RAR file on Mac OS X?
I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.2 and have been handed a couple of old files that need to be extracted. Old backups or finances or bills I believe. They are RAR files, and password protected. Is there a way to extract the hash from these files so I can feed it into John The Ripper or Cain and Abel? Edit …
What registry key or windows file determines where monitors are placed in a multi monitor environment?
I have a laptop with a USB to VGA adapter which allows me to add a third monitor to my laptop (the second monitor uses the onboard slot). It worked fine on Windows Vista - you could go into Windows' display settings and Windows would recognize the third monitor and let you drag it around accordingl…
Mousing and Page-Up/Down in Terminal for Mac OS X
Compared to *nix, Terminal.app seems pretty lame. How can I get it to: Send Page-Up/Down to an application, instead of just scrolling the terminal output Mouse around in vim. isn't helping. All of the above while SSH'd into another machine
Updating screen session environment variables to reflect new graphical login?
I use linux, and I like to do all my command-line work within a single screen session, so that I can restart my graphical login and such without losing my terminals. However, when I log out and back into my graphical session, this changes all my session environment variables, such as DBus sessions.…
Why are my hard drives failing?
I have a small Ubuntu server running at home, with 2 hard drives. There are two software raids (raid1) on the disks, managed by mdadm, which I believe is irrelevant, but mentioning it anyway. Both of the hard drives are Western Digital, and have been used for around 2 years, when one of them starte…
How to disable creating .Spotlight-V100 and .Trash folders on external drive?
Everytime I put a USB Flash Driver the Mac OS X creates 2 folders and . Is it possible to disable this operation?
Arch Linux: 'whatprovides' equivalent option for pacman
I've come from Fedora and am trying out Arch Linux. I was wondering if the packager 'pacman' contains functionality like that provided by 'yum whatprovides':