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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?
allowing local network access while blocking internet access
I have a networked computer that is used as a remote print/scan server (which is shared by numerous users) Is there any way I can block the machines internet access while still allowing it to connect to our local network? edit- Essentially, its a Windows XP machine shared between myself and 5 other…
Is there a Way to Retrieve a Lost/Forgotten KeePass Password?
I recently decided to store all of my passwords in KeyPass Password Safe 2. I forgot my password to KeyPass. Is there anyway to retrieve it? My assumption is no there is not for obvious reasons.
How do I get VLC to play on the second monitor on windows?
How do I get VLC to play on the second monitor on Windows? On Mac OS, there is an option in the video menu "fullscreen video device". Windows doesn't seem to have that option. There are various options in the DirectX settings that let you select a monitor, but they don't seem to work simply.
Force bash script to use tee without piping from the command line
I have a bash script with lots of output and I would like to change that script (not create a new one) to copy all the output to a file, just like it would happen if I were piping it through tee. I have a file script.sh: and I would like to make a copy of STDOUT to a file script.log without having …
How do I create an RSA public\private key pair in Windows?
How do I create RSA public\private key pair file in Windows?
Inverse multiplexing to speed up file transfer
I have send a large amount of data from one machine to another. If I send with rsync (or any other method), it will go at a steady 320kb/sec. If I initiate two or three transfers at once, each will go at 320, and if I do four at once, they will max out the link. I need to be able to send data as fa…
How do I change the Windows 7 boot animation?
I want to change Windows 7's boot screen. Is there any way? Note that I'm not referring to the logon screen; I'm talking about the screen which you see before the welcome screen:
Best Windows software to search file content
Possible Duplicate: Best way to confidently search files and contents in Windows without using an indexing service? What in your opinion is the best Window's software for searching file content? The search utility in Windows offers this but often misses valid files from the search results.
Hide account from login screen but can be used in UAC
So I have a Windows 7 home machine with 2 user accounts. One is a standard user account and one is an administrator account. Now this is going to be put in the hands of a very low-tech user so I don't want them to be able to see the administrator account on logon, but they want to have a password t…
Port 5357 TCP on Windows 7 professional 64 bit?
Is there a reason this port is open, a quick Nmap scan and Nessus scan reveal it's open, why? Are there any ramifications if I close this port via the firewall rule set? Or does anyone here now more info about this port besides Google? WTF? 1)http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/who-left-tunnel-do…
Muting an Application on a Mac
Is it possible to mute just a single application (ex. Safari) on Mac while letting other application's sound continue to run through?
How do I reconnect to a lost screen (detached, missing socket)?
I had a session running on a home server. My workstation needed a reboot, so I detached and killed the terminal. Upon reconnecting to the server, I execute my typical Huh? No, not a new session, gimme the old one. I know, I'll grab it directly. What's the socket name? Wait... what? I know I left it…
How to reset per application volume setting in Windows 7 and Vista
I've altered per application volume settings for my applications. I want to reset every individual volume setting so that all apps use the global volume settings. How should I do that?
Windows command-line: create a file with the current date in its name
I'm trying to create a zip file from a batch script. I need it to be named like archive_.zip Unfortunately, this doesn't work on systems with the date formatted like y/m/d because of the slashes: The variable expands to something like I have access to the gnuwin32 package, so I could use, say, to r…
Is there any point in installing a monitor driver?
I'm guessing that most of the world's PCs are running with a default "Plug & Play Monitor" driver which seems to work well enough, and having just swapped to a 2005FPW, installed the driver and noticed zero difference - not even a flicker during install - I was just wondering if there is a point to…
Windows Explorer's file attribute column values
Is there a good resource for all of the values and definition in Windows Explorer's file attribute column?
How do I set my shell in Mac OS X?
I know I can set "Shells open with" in the Terminal preferences, but I'm curious if there's any system-wide way of setting this (similar to updating /etc/passwd in some Unixes).
How do I uncomment lines in an XML file using Notepad++
I can comment lines easily enough with Ctrl+Shift+Q. How do I uncomment the lines? Ctrl+Shift+K doesn't do it.
In Microsoft Word how can I link to an image from the web which updates?
Is it possible in Microsoft Word (Word 2003 preferably) to insert an image from a url and have that image reloaded from url each time that document is opened? The image itself is a map, and I'd like the map to be reloaded from the server each time the Word document is opened so that the most recent…