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Which of shutdown / hibernate / sleep causes the least wear to an SSD drive?
Having an SSD for the only drive in my laptop I'm wondering which of shutdown / hibernate / sleep causes the least wear to it? Is there any serious test that would measure that? Suppose that the laptop is in daily use with mostly common business apps running (Chrome, FireFox, Word, Excel, OneNote, …
What does %1 in "kill %1" mean?
I know that stores the pid of the last (background) process, but what does mean? I often see it together with and it has the same effect as . Can someone give me a hint? (Such small terms are so hard to google :-/)
How to calculate the final RAID size of a RAID 5 array?
What is the formula for working out the final RAID size of a RAID 5 array knowing the number of disk and the size of each disk?
Does a.gtld-servers.net have a list of all .com domains?
When I do , it quickly returns the nameservers for and the IP addresses for those nameservers (glue records). Does that mean (and ) have a record of all domains locally? They respond very quickly, so I don't think they're making a further query themselves. Similarly, a request for 's nameservers do…
Set proper rights for sshfs mountpoint so it can be shared with samba
I have a domain hoster that provides access via SSH. My platforms are: Gentoo 2.6.36-r5 Windows (XP/Vista/7) I work on my Windows, I use Gentoo to do all the magic Windows can't do. Therefore I use sshfs to mount the remote public directory for my domain to /mnt/mydomain.com. Authentication is done…
Why does excel always say "..may contain features that are not compatible with CSV" when saving a CSV file?
Every CSV I've ever tried to save from Excel (2010, anyway) says . Why is this? Is there any way to save CSV files from excel that do not contain this message? Even the following file (saved as a .csv) will cause this to happen, if you try to save it: I've even just created a new spreadsheet in exc…
Stop pinned tabs changing in Chrome
Can I prevent my pinned tabs in Chrome from changing domain? Here's what keeps happening: I pin Gmail I inadvertently go to that tab (I have a lot of tabs open, so visually there's no difference) and open another url I close Chrome, and next time I open it, it has the other url in the pinned tab Wh…
How to move columns with drag and drop in Excel 2011?
How can I move columns with drag and drop in Excel 2011?
Java issue (nonexistent Java Runtime)
I'm currently having an issue with playing Minecraft. I played Minecraft perfectly before I had an issue with my computer. Now when I open the file (or try to open Java itself from the start menu) it says there is a problem with Java: The registry refers to a non-existent Java Runtime Environment i…
Can't remove certain fonts in Windows 7
We have an x64 Windows 7 professional machine on which some but not all fonts can not be removed. The problematic fonts in question are not system fonts or Microsoft Office fonts (I think, they haven't updated the list for Office2010). One example: StoneSansOSITC TT (filename ). Curiously other fon…
How can I let TextMate show line numbers when I'm coding C++?
How can I let TextMate show line numbers when I'm coding C++?
Why 'cannot overwrite existing file'?
I try to write to a file but Linux says 'cannot overwrite existing file'. I tried but still cannot write to the file. What should I do?
What software works well for viewing massive TIFF images on Windows 7?
Today I saw an article about a half-gig, 24000 square-pixel high-res composite image of the moon. (This is a much smaller version of the image) I find astronomy interesting, so I thought I'd download it and take a look. With 4GB of RAM and an i5 processor, I figured my computer could handle it. Unf…
easy_install will not connect through proxy
I'm running Ubuntu Server 10.04 64-bit under VirtualBox, and it seems that everything except easy_install and pip can connect to the Internet. I have set and exported the http_proxy environment variable, and also set up the proxy address in every other location I'm aware of. Yet easy_install always…
How to get the address bar and tabs on a different row in IE9?
Is it possible to change the layout of IE9 in order to have the address bar be longer or on a different row than the page tabs?
How do I convert audio from the command line a la ImageMagick?
ImageMagick is a handy, powerful command-line tool that can crop, scale, rotate, change format, apply basic (and some not-so-basic) effects to pretty much all sorts of images. How can I join audio tracks, adjust levels, and transcode formats from the command line?
What's a loopback-address? I.e. 127.0.0.1
What is a loop-back address? 127.0.0.1 is a loop-back address, but what does this even mean? Please be very descriptive and give an example, as I'm having a hard-time understanding this.
Why does Outlook 2010 give the message "Creating a new item from the selected items could take some time...are you sure you create a new item...?
I'm using Outlook 2010 with Exchange 2007. I am moving emails from my Deleted Items folder to a user-created folder. When I move a "low" number of messages, say a few hundred or less, the operation completes successfully. When I move a "large" number of messages (in this example it's over 800) I ge…
how do I delete an Eclipse project when I've already deleted the folder and contents?
How do I fully delete an Eclipse project when I've already deleted the folder and contents? I want to do this so that I can reuse the project name.
echo newline character not working in bash
I have bash script which has lots of statements and also I aliased to both in and , so that new lines are printed properly for a statement like the output should be but the output I am getting is I even tried using in the script, it doesn't help I am running my script as ; if I run it as I am getti…