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How to make a single window on Mac OS X sticky to every desktop space?
I'm trying to make a single terminal window appear on every space but the built in spaces only allow to configure this per application basis. This makes it more or less useless for terminals if you have multiple terminal windows on multiple spaces. DesktopManager seams to have solved this for older…
search PDFs with non-standard character encodings
Some PDF files produce garbage ("mojibake") when you copy text (even though they render OK). This makes it impossible to search them (whatever you search for will not match the garbage). Does anyone have an easy workaround? Examples: TEAC TV manual EU2816STF (yields above problems in Adobe Reader o…
Spaces and Parenthesis in windows PATH variable screws up batch files
So, my path variable (System->Adv Settings->Env Vars->System->PATH) is set to: Although, obviously, without the newlines. Notice the lines containing - the first has no spaces, the second has a space, and the third has a space followed by a parenthesis. Now, notice the output of this batch file: or…
Control mouse with keyboard in Ubuntu
I'm looking for a program that I can use to control the mouse from the keyboard. I think a video can explain it much better than I could, so please check out Mouser from lifehacker.com: http://lifehacker.com/212816/hack-attack-operate-your-mouse-with-your-keyboard Unfortunately, it's only for Windo…
Best program to trim silence beginning and end of mp3 files?
I have a bunch of mp3 files that have silence at the beginnings and ends, is there any program to trim this automatically? I would prefer that I can just give it a list of files to trim as opposed to having to do them individually.
Thunderbird 3 "Reply to all", also replies to myself
I have my job IMAP account set up in TB 3.0.3. It's becoming very annoying that in group emails where I'm in the CC or TO list I hit "Reply To All" and I find myself in the recipients list. So when I send the email I also get a copy of my own email. I haven't found where to disable or modify this. …
How to set up application-specific routing table on Windows?
Suppose network interface 1 (net1) and 2 (net2) are both connected to the Internet. I want application 1 (app1) to use net1, and application 2 (app2) to use net2. How can it be done under Windows? If you need a concrete example of the above situation, consider: A laptop with Windows 7 net1 = A wire…
Set an out-of-office message in Lotus Notes
How do I make the out-of-office option visible in Lotus Notes? It was usually available under the Tools drop down but now only Preferences is visible under this drop-down. I am using Lotus Notes 8.5.
Best way to create an array of objects in Illustrator?
I often find myself needing to create an array of objects, either in a straight line, rotated around a centre point, or angled along a path. At the moment I'm using all sorts of different and no-doubt stupid ways to do it, usually one at a time with a little head-math and the transform palette- And…
How do I kill a screen if I know the name of it?
I have a screen named 'foo' that I started using the command I want to put this in cron, and restart it nightly by killing the screen. The reason I'm using a screen is my command starts up several other procs and this will ensure they all exit. So... what is the command to kill sceen 'foo'? Thanks!
How can I move around the bash commandline efficiently?
So I use the up in my shell (Bash on OSX or Ubuntu, mostly) but some of the time I know that I want the stuff after the cursor's current location. Is there any way to have the line I'm on complete with the line above? Hitting up and then left is annoying. Any other tricks would be cool too, except …
How can I enable AHCI on a SATA drive after installing Windows?
Can I enable AHCI after installing Windows 7 in a SATA drive that was on IDE mode?
How to diagnose ballooning OS X kernel_task and wired memory usage?
I have a very strange issue, which I'm having a hard time diagnosing as to the root cause. I have a Mac Pro (2008, 8-core 2.8 GHz, 8800GT) with 14 GB of RAM (recently upgraded because of this issue!). When I boot my system and log in, vm_stat / top / Activity Monitor will show that kernel_task has …
Make a bootable USB to install Windows XP from Linux
I have a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 with only Ubuntu installed. I want to install Windows XP also, but I don't have and can't get an external CD drive, so I need to make a Windows installation from the USB. All the tutorials I found use Windows to make the USB bootable. How can I make the same from Linux?
How to make files created in a directory owned by directory group?
Is there a way, on Linux, to cause all new files created in a directory to be owned by the directory's group instead of the creating user's group?
"Run as" for a .bat file
I'd like to run a .bat file as a different user to troubleshoot a rights problem which I suspect. For normal .exe files, you can Shift-right-click to get "Run as...". However, for a .bat file, this does not work (Shift-right-click gives no menu entry "Run as..."). Why is that so, and how can I "Run…
Enable/disable wireless interface in a bat file
Is there a way to enable/disable a wireless network interface via the command line (so I can put it in a bat file)? When I'm in the office I use a wired connection, but Windows still occasionally bugs me about my wireless connection not being connected (even though I turned off the option for notif…
LInux: How do I diagnose / isolate what's causing "random" hangs and spontaneous reboots?
(originally posted on serverfault) So, rather than guessing just what the cause is (though my money's on the nvidia drivers), where do I start looking to pin down some facts? I've been through /var/log on several occasions but there's a LOT of stuff in there and I can't (yet) spot the important bit…
Notepad++ Display Printing Page Count
I have a rather large document i want to print via Notepad++, but i can't get the page count before printing. Is there a way to do it? (Assume standard 8.5"x11" paper)
How to force a "do you really want to shutdown?" dialog in Windows 7?
Sometimes I want to choose "Logout current user", but then I hit "Shutdown" by accident. Nearly everywhere else Windows 7 is asking "do you really want to do this? Yes/No" - but that's not the case when I hit the "Shutdown" button. Windows 7 shuts down immediately without giving me the chance to co…