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NTFS alternate stream in compressed archive?
Does any of the major compressed archive formats in Windows (e.g. zip, rar, 7z) support NTFS alternate data stream?
Should I store my code/projects on my SSD or my secondary drive?
I just got a new box. It has an SSD for the primary drive and a 1TB SATA hard disk for the secondary drive. I'm going to run Windows OS and my binaries on the SSD and keep all my downloads/documents/music/etc on the secondary drive. My question is, should I also keep my Visual Studio Projects and c…
What is keeping my PC from sleeping?
How can I find out why my laptop or desktop won't automatically go to sleep
How to take a screenshot of a something bigger than the screen?
I have a created a route using Google Maps. I want to take a screenshot of this route in satellite view with maximum zoom. But since it doesn't fit my screen I can't do it. It there a way around this?
Windows Firewall: How to allow traffic on a specific port (eg. 8080)?
I am trying to configure team Foundation Server so that: It is accessible from within my Home Network, and The Web site is accessible via the Internet I have a problem with point 1: When I access locally from 192.168.1.106, it works. When I access the same web site from another PC in my home networ…
How to set processor affinity on OS X?
How do you set processor affinity in Snow Leopard on a MacBook Pro?I know in Windows you could just switch it in Task Manager.
how to prevent new windows from stealing focus in gnome
I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 and I have the window manager configured for "focus follows mouse" but new application windows will steal the focus. Seems like there are many threads out there complaining about this behavior, but I see no solutions, am I missing something?
Is Jabber the same thing as XMPP?
I find conflcting information on this subject. Are they the same thing? I've read that Jabber is "based" on XMPP. For example: The chat client "Pidgin" has a box for XMPP but seemingly not for Jabber. Yet, it seems to support it. What's the difference between XMPP and Jabber?
Setting background color in gvim
I use a terminal with white text on black background (I just like it better), so I wrote the following line in my file: However, has black on white text. How do I do either of the following: Set the background of to black Check in if I'm using I tried this: I started up , and typed . The answer was…
How to delete files on the command line with regular expressions?
Lets say I have 20 files named FOOXX, where XX is the number of the file, eg 01, 02 etc. At the moment, if I want to delete all files lower than the number 10, this is easy and I just use a wildcard, eg However, if I want to delete specific files ina range, eg 13-15, this becomes more difficult. do…
What process is making that sound?
My Windows 7 system makes an intermittent ding sound (like a single chime, or bell). I don't know which process does it. So, my question is: Is there software/method out there that can tell me which processes are currently sending output to the sound device?
How to reset folder permissions to their default in Ubuntu?
I recently typed the command after that some things like are not working normally. So I am wondering if there is any way I could reset the folder permissions to their original state?
Mac OS X Finder - Creating New Folder with Right-Click in List View
I am aware that when using Finder in List view, I can create a new folder by right-clicking on an empty row, and pressing 'New Folder'. However, when I happen to be browsing a folder with quite a lot of files (or just enough to invoke a scrollbar), there are no blank rows, and hence nowhere that I …
How to test video card memory
I want to test the memory of my video card because there are vertical lines on my screen. I have done some basic troubleshooting and it seems that the problem is in the video card. I want to validate that the issue is the video card by testing its memrory. I have found software that is used for Nvi…
Run a cron job every 5 minutes between two times
Is there a way to specify a job that runs every 5 minutes between some start time and some end time on business days in a crontab? Update I think it's relevant that my start and end times are not at round hours. So, specifying 9-5 in the hour column isn't enough. I want 9:30-17:30.
I can't uninstall Git
I was researching Git so I downloaded the Windows version to test it out on a repository on GitHub. After about 30 minutes I couldn't work out how to use it, so I decided I probably wouldn't need a distributed repository as our projects aren't that big and went back to what I know - SVN. (I thought…
Folder keeps changing back to read-only. What permissions setup causes this in Windows?
I think I'm going crazy. Every time I create a folder it automatically is set to readonly, but I can still then rename the folder or add folders to it. If I attempt to uncheck the readonly flag it becomes checked again when I next open the folder properties. What the heck? Could my IT dept really h…
Refresh environment variable
How can I refresh a Windows command shell after I modified my Environment variables? i.e. In Bash I can just do
How safe is locking the screen?
Both Windows and Linux have a pretty useful feature that allows you to leave everything running on the PC while also keeping invaders away by locking the screen. My question is: Say I leave my laptop with the screen locked while I go get a donut, and then it gets stolen. Assuming the thief has acce…
How to remove all files that were created n minutes ago in linux
I guess in most cases, when extracting a tar archive, we will get a directory with the same name as the archive file but different suffix. But in some unlucky case, as I met today, after extracting a tarball, I find lots of files spread in the working directory, which is a nuisance. So what I want …