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RSS feed reader from the terminal in Linux
Is there a way by which I can read RSS feeds from the terminal itself? Something that would display the titles and a link to follow. Or maybe a software which works from within the terminal.
How do you create a new network eth?
I have a machine that has eth0 and eth1, and now I want to create an eth2 and assign it some IP address. What's the command for doing this?
VS 2010 Security Warning When Opening My Own Projects
Whenever I try to open my own projects in VS 2010 Express, I get the following message: You should only open projects from a trustworthy source I can click OK on the message and open the solution, but I would prefer to not get warned every time I open my solution. The files were not downloaded from…
Command aliases in Command Prompt?
How can I make command aliases in Windows' Command Prompt like I would with ? I found out about in a forum thread, so I can do something like: ...and now the command acts a little more like on Unix. (I type so often in , it isn't even funny.) But how do I get this to stick between sessions? It goes…
How do I log which process is deleting a file on Windows XP?
A file is being deleted seemingly randomly throughout the day. The vendor of the software whose file is being deleted says that another piece of software installed on the computer is deleting it, while the other software's vendor says the opposite. I've tried using Process Monitor so I can pinpoint…
How do I extract a list of Windows services and their status to a text file?
I would like to get a text dump of the screen you see when running (except the Description column). This is so I can run a diff after installing different software that adds services to this screen. Is this possible? If it's helpful I have access to Powershell but don't know how to retrieve this ty…
NotePad++ - Why does finding ^ not work?
I am trying to move away from TextPad, and I just can't get regular expressions like and to be replaced. I have definitely ticked the regular expression box. What am I doing wrong? I am trying to find the start of a new line. In TextPad, it is find '^' and ensure regular expressions is enabled. Wit…
Simulating a low-bandwidth, high-latency network connection on Linux
I'd like to simulate a high-latency, low-bandwidth network connection on my Linux machine. Limiting bandwidth has been discussed before, e.g. here, but I can't find any posts which address limiting both bandwidth and latency. I can get either high latency or low bandwidth using . But I haven't been…
How does the "Full Control" permission differ from manually giving all other permissions?
On Windows Server 2003 - and some other versions of Windows - the Properties > Security tab of a folder's or file's context menu provides "Allow" and "Deny" options for "Full Control," "Modify," "Read" and other permissions: After clicking "Full Control," all boxes in the column - except for "Speci…
How to set Title of CMD to current working Directory in Windows XP
How does one set the title of the of the Command Prompt (CMD) in Windows XP to the current working directory dynamically ? I can use however, this is a temporary fix and the title remains fixed when I change directory using the CD command.
Is there a standalone Flash Player for Linux?
I would like to download a Flash game and play it without using Firefox under Ubuntu Lucid - any ideas how? I can download the game fine, I'm just wondering how to play it without Firefox. Is there a standalone Flash Player I can use?
How to see who is using my WiFi
I have a WiFi router at home and would like to know if there is any way to know who is connected to my WiFi network and using it. My WiFi network is password protected but still there could be a chance that neighbours crack it and could use my WiFi for free. For this reason I would like to know is …
Kernel NTFS driver vs NTFS-3G
A more comprehensive phrased question since I lost access to the other one. I would ask that the other one be deleted, not this one, as it should not have been migrated in the first place. There are currently two NTFS drivers available for Linux. The NTFS driver included in the kernel, and the user…
What's the difference between portable and install versions?
Is there any difference between the portable and desktop install versions of software or an application? For example, I have both portable and install versions of Google chrome. Are they the same? Do they function the same?
Cropping videos in Windows Live Movie Maker
I want to crop (as in, take a subset of each frame, like when you crop a photo) a video in Windows Live Movie maker. Is there a way to do this, and failing that is there another free tool i can use to do that?
Word count for LaTeX within emacs
I want to count how many words my LaTeX document has in it. I can do this by going to the website for the texcount package and using the web interface there. but that's not ideal. I'd rather have some shortcut within emacs to just return number of words in a file (or ideally number of words in file…
Powering down the display in XP with a command
Is there a command to power down the display in Windows XP? That is, a command that causes the video card to stop sending a signal to the monitor until input is received, much as power management does after a time.
Can't ping other machines in my network
I've got 3 machines on my network, all running Windows 7. None of them can ping each other, either by name or IP address. (And because of this, they also can't see each other on the network, can't see shares, can't remote desktop, can't see any homegroups, etc.) They are all on the same workgroup. …
Select full file name when renaming on Windows
Does anyone know if it's possible to change a setting so that the full file name is selected when you rename a file in newer versions of Windows? (i.e. to match the behavior in Windows XP). Currently it doesn't select the extension, so I have to do it manually.
Using the vim split command from the command line to get 4 quarter splits
I want to open four vim files on the command line: But I would like each file to be opened in a separate split: (The above splits the screen horizontally 4 times) Ideally what I would like to do is split the screen into 4 squares like: I know how to do this once vim is open, but I am unable to do t…