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What are the technical differences between Windows Vista and Windows 7?
I'm interested in finding an unabridged technical manual documenting all of the differences between the two operating systems. In Tanenbaum's latest edition of Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition), he dives into the technical layout of Windows Vista. I'm looking for something similar or in greate…
Matched or unmatched drives for RAID arrays?
Looking around there is conflicting information on this, with some strongly suggesting one or the other. From my understanding the issue with matched drives is that the wear on both drives is more or less the same, so the potential for the second drive failing with or very soon after the first is p…
Do not wakeup Mac on mouse movements
I never switch off my mac in the office, instead i use the energy saving mode to suspend the mac to disc. This is all working fine, but I have one problem: when the cleaning lady is cleaning the office, she also moves the mouse and the mac wakes up. Can I set the energy save to not to wake up on mo…
Windows - Use Local Service and/or Network Service account for a windows service
I've created a window's service that monitors files on a specific directory on our Windows OS. When a file is detected, the service does some file I/O, reads the files, creates sub-directories, etc. This service also uses database connectivity to connect to another server. My plan is to have the se…
Is a CMOS battery rechargeable?
Is a CMOS battery rechargeable? If so, what does its charger look like?
How to print last character of a file
In Unix, using a simple command like sed, is there a way to print the last character of a file?
Is it possible to search an Outlook folder with Ctrl-F?
I've got CtrlF burned into my brain and hands to do a search. Outlook makes you use CtrlE because CtrlF does a forward. But when composing an email, CtrlF initiates a find. Assuming I'm OK giving up CtrlF to forward an email, can I somehow get CtrlF to initiate a search in a given folder?
How do I associate all unknown file types with notepad++?
I work alot with billing and files the bank etc. send me files that have date extensions or some counter as an extension: eg file1.20110315 or file2.123 So the extension changes every time I receive another file. Is it possible to associate all file types that end in numbers or if not any unknown f…
Is there a hard limit of 65536 open TCP connections per IP address on linux?
Is there a hard limit of 65536 open TCP connections per IP address on linux? I read somewhere that there was, but someone is asking for confirmation and i just can't find it. I seem to remember it was something about the file descriptors being a 16 bit integer which limits it somehow? Or is this ho…
What is the quickest and best way to copy a 500 GB drive?
I have an external drive and it's not working well. I want to move or copy all the stuff to a new external drive before it's too late. Copy and paste will not work as it produces a "Path too long" error and halts. Might XCopy do the job? I need a method that does not require spending money on comme…
Windows 7 Keyboard Repeat Rate and Delay are Reset on Resume from Standby / Sleep
I always keep my keyboard repeat rate at the maximum and the delay at the minimum for optimal keyboard responsiveness. Under Windows 7 however, I have found that the rate and delay are reset to the defaults (ie the one’s that are set with a fresh Windows installation) whenever the system resumes fr…
Unix: How to merge two directories
Say I have two folders with various content, and . How can I merge into so that: Files in that are not in are untouched. Files in that are not in are now in . Files in that are also in have been replaced by the files from .
How do I symlink each of the files in one directory to another directory?
If I have a directory with a few files in it, how do I symlink each entry in into ? For instance, if has the files , and , I want to create three symlinks:
Recursive ls with conditions
Why can't I use a command like this to find all the pdf files in a directory and subdirectories? How do I do it? (I'm using bash in ubuntu) EDIT How would I then go about deleting all these files?
Export frames of animation separately
I'm working with lots of Photoshop animations provided to me by a designer. Each one is made of six frames, and I need to export each frame so that they have the titles (say): left*.png, where * is 0-5 depending on the frame. Does anyone know if there's a quick way of doing this? So far I've been d…
How can I open multiple instances of the same document in Evince?
Evince opens new documents in the existing window. I'd like to see many pages of a PDF file at the same time. For example, say I'm reading a paper in one instance of Evince on page 3 and I want another instance of Evince to be on the page with references, page 27. opens an Evince window containing …
Where are Intel Itanium chips used?
I think that all the Intel chips I've ever bought were IA-32 architecture. Are Intel Itaniums sold in desktops or laptops?
What is the '¤' character?
Lately I've started wondering about the ¤ character which is shift+4 on my Norwegian keyboard (it's also present on several others, including the U.S. International keyboard layout). I've never seen a use for it, yet for some reason someone decided it was important enough to have it put in such a c…
How do I reset the zoom level in Firefox?
How do I reset the zoom level in Firefox back to the default?
OpenOffice vs LibreOffice - what's the difference?
I'm considering switching from Microsoft Office (too expensive) to an open-source option. What's the difference between OpenOffice and LibreOffice?