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Will an SSD help prevent laptop overheating?
My laptop has a severe overheating problem, even though it's quite new (< 6 month). It's still regularly overheating to the point where it shuts down. This usually happens while playing games but sometimes while watching videos or using Skype video calls for a long time. I'm already keeping it mid-…
How to disable Acrobat Reader's "Click-Scroll-Feature"?
The term "click-scroll-feature" is made up by me. I have no idea how this is called. Some PDF documents have a feature enabled that allows you to scroll through the document by single clicking on the text. The presence of the feature is indicated by the hand cursor with a short horizontal bar and a…
vim: number of total buffers
in vim, with I get the number of all buffers the same with , but how I can get the total number of buffers ?
How to go past window 9 in GNU Screen without going to Window list?
I use GNU Screen tool to keep my sessions alive on the system. To switch between windows I use where N is the number of the window. I want to use similar keystroke to access windows with numbers in two digits. As of now I have to go to window list by and then select the window. Is there a way to ac…
Replace "Paint" as default program for 'Edit' Explorer command
Default action in Windows 7 for 'Edit' is to open image in Paint. I don't use Paint. I hate Paint. I don't want to see it ever again. Can I reassign it to, say, Paint.NET? Or if I can't, how can I remove it altogether, so this link won't clutter my context menu? P.S. Maybe remove "Set as desktop ba…
How to auto save a Cisco VPN connection password on Mac OS X?
I have set up a Cisco IPSec VPN connection instead of using the Cisco client on Mac OS X. I like it fairly well, it just sits in the tray next to the clock and allows me to easily connect and disconnect. However, the one disadvantage to this is that Apple's network preference pane really enforces t…
Using colour schemes with vim and putty
I am trying to use the desert color scheme with VIM 7.0 on CentOS 5.6 x64 located here: http://hans.fugal.net/vim/colors/desert.vim I've downloaded the file and saved it in my directory. I then tell VIM to use the colour scheme by issuing: It's supposed to look like this: However I get this: I'm lo…
Restore Mac OS X Terminal title after closing a SSH connection
Possible Duplicate: How do I make OS X set the terminal title back to the original title when coming back from ssh? Every time you logout from a SSH connection in Mac OS X terminal you end up with the past login information in the window title. Most solutions I have found searching on the web invol…
Unicode characters suddenly start displaying as boxes in some applications
I noticed that Unicode characters suddenly stopped displaying in some applications, so far Notepad++ and Skype, when they were appearing previously. Instead they appear as boxes. They were working before, but I believe that it broke after a restart. I can even type them into the Skype input window …
How do you copy a file from Windows to a VMware virtual hard disk (Ubuntu)?
I have VMware Player, and I run Ubuntu with it on my Windows 7 system. Now I want to copy some files from my Windows folders into the VMware virtual hard disk, so that I can view these files on Ubuntu. How do I do that?
vim : toggle number with relativenumber
with I can toggle number (on/off), similar with relativenumber how I can toggle {off,number,relativenumber} ?
How can I create a properly aligned curly brace that spans multiple rows or columns in Excel?
I would like to group a couple of columns or rows together and add a note to them. When I try that with normal letter-resizing, it gets ugly, misaligned to the rows, too bold and the centered text next to it aligns oddly. Ideally, I would have the curly brace character ( ) automatically resize with…
Why do add-ons become incompatible when upgrading firefox
My default browser is Chrome, but when I occasionally use Firefox for whatever reason there is often an update to it. Almost every time I update Firefox some of my add-ons become incompatible. Why is that? Why doesn't this happen in Chrome?
Getting rid of a file called "-d"
Possible Duplicates: How do I delete a file named "-p" from bash? How to delete file with this name on linux: -]???????q What command do I need to use to remove a file called `-rf`? I've accidentally created a file called: -d I've tried using single and double quote marks as well as wild cards to r…
Netcat/socat behavior with piping and UDP?
I guess this is close to linux - Netcat stops listening for UDP traffic - Super User, but I thought I'd better ask anyways As far as versions of netcat I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 and the default on it, which I'm guessing is the one: This is what I find strange: the first case works as expected - I open…
Why is distributing random pieces of a file faster than a contiguous transfer?
Why is it said that BitTorrent is faster, partly, because it transfers random pieces of a file instead of transferring it from start to finish in a contiguous/linear fashion? EDIT: But why do they have to be 'random'? Why not a more predictable 'semi-contiguous' transfer in which one peer gives you…
Do SSDs “turn on”?
Hard-drives have a definitive “on” status (they spin up, the heads move, and they use more electricity than when they are “off”). The same goes for a computer (fans and lights activate), monitors (relays click, electron-guns fire/LEDs light), and so on. But what about SSDs? A hard-drive requires th…
BIOS font, ROM font: Where to get them?
I was wondering if, and how I could get the fonts used in BIOS ROM (the font you see when entering BIOS setup and during early stages of boot). The same font is used in VirtualBox, when booting a VM. I'm a Linux user, and I'd prefer the font as bitmap pixel font, so I could use it, but when it's av…
Is it bad to defragment a USB Flash Drive?
If I defragment my 8 GB Kingston flash drive, will it decrease its lifetime?
How to disable Eclipse splash screen?
I want to disable the Eclipse splash screen because it always gets in my way.. How do I disable the Eclipse splash screen?