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Disable Hyperthreading in the Windows 7 registry
Some bios's Do Not have the option to disable Hyperthreading of the CPU, it there a way to disable it in the Windows 7 Registry? Or a tool or software? I know about msconfig boot tab (advanced options) and disabling processors there, not sure if it disables complete cores or hyperthreads, or how to…
Bash: lookup an IP for a host name, including /etc/hosts in search
Ubuntu 10.10+ In my script I need to lookup an IP for a given host name. If that name is listed in , then command should print IP from , not from DNS server. What commands I tried ( , , ), completely ignore — at least for names that are not known to the DNS server. Note: I would prefer solution tha…
True difference between Excel CSV and Standard CSV
What is the true difference between an Excel CSV and a standard CSV? For example, when handling columns with line breaks inside one cell, how do they encode it differently?
How do I get rid of the extra space in tables with Microsoft Word 2003?
I am copying and pasting tables from another document (Word 2007) over to Word 2003 and when I do this, right click on the upper left hand corner of the table, AutoFit, AutoFit to Contents, I am left with unknown spaces. These spaces are ones that cannot be deleted. They're like a paragraphing prob…
Safari Web Developer Tools?
Where do you enable web developer tools in Safari on windows? I can't find it anywhere. A quick web search found some really complicated instructions that felt more like a hack then turning on a setting. Does Apple really make it that hard to develop in their browser?
How can I blur text in an image?
Is there an easy way to blur an image in Windows? I'm not looking for something fancy, I'm only looking to smudge the text in an image.
Google Chrome - Disable Network Connection
Using Google Chrome, is it possible to "Work Offline", that is, disable the network connection. I'm looking for the same feature that is included in Firefox 4.x under the File menu called Work Offline. This feature will assist in testing a HTML 5 cache manifest.
Fixing a guest screen resolution in VirtualBox
I was required to develop a Windows app UI for a fixed resolution - it doesn't matter if it makes sense or not, the customer requires it. I'm using a Windows Server 2003 VirtualBox VM as the development environment; my host machine has much higher resolution. Is there any way to select and fix the …
How to not show the last file when starting up Notepad++?
Possible Duplicate: Closing Notepad++ tabs on closing application It's very annoying that every time Notepad++ starts, it displays the last modified file. Is there a setting to turn this feature off?
How to make Chrome to confirm on quit tab?
Chrome always quit when I click on the button on a tab, without asking me anything! Even when I close Chrome he do not alert me if I am willing to relay close it? Many times it happened that accidentally I clicked on button.
Resize a partition image with GParted?
I've resized partitions in GParted before. Now I'd like to move a large but mostly empty partition to a smaller drive. Instead of resizing it in place, I'd prefer to make a copy on a 3rd drive (drive image using dd), resize the copy, and then dd the copy to the new drive. But I don't think Gparted …
How to print screen in Remote Desktop Client (RDS) on Mac OS X?
I'm using version 2.1.0 of Remote Desktop Client on my MacBook Pro with Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6). How do I use the or call to simulate a print screen on the remote system?
Where can I find IIS in Windows 7?
I’ve got IIS installed and enabled on Windows 7, but I don’t know where to open it so that I can configure a website. I seem to remember that in Windows XP it was somewhere in the Control Panel, but I can’t find it in Windows 7.
Why do disks fragment?
As a part of regular Windows maintenance, I defragment my hard drive. But why does the hard drive fragment on NTFS and FAT* systems? Apparantly ext* does not, why is this? Should I also be defragmenting my USB drives?
How do I keep Windows 7's taskbar icon highlighting from getting stuck?
In Windows 7, in the Aero interface, if you move the mouse over an icon it gets highlighted. This is definitely pretty, but sometimes the system gets into a state where the highlight gets stuck, and whichever button you hovered over last with the mouse cursor remains highlighted even when you move …
Unable to use scp with a bash alias
This code does not work: The alias is: How do I solve this problem? Edit Is something similar to the following code possible, like running many instances of ? I did not get the above code to work.
how do I change postfix port from 25 to 587?
I am total noob about Unix and CLI. after googling for almost 6 hours I came to know I should be editing postfix port from 25 to 587 for PHP mail() function to work. and here is the solution I got http://www.linuxmail.info/postfix-change-port/ but I am not sure how to change it. as already said I a…
Application appears off screen
For some reason, notepad.exe starts up off the physical screen in some virtual location. As such I cannot use it. It's in the taskbar so I can kill it. Is there anyway to have it reset its top left corner so I can use it again?
How can I make vim show the current class and method I'm editing
Does anyone know if it's possible (or know of an existing vim script or plugin) that can create a "status bar" that shows the name of the current class and method (or function) I'm editing? I'm imagining that it would plug into the syntax parser for the filetype of the current buffer, and display a…
Automatically change time based on current location
I often move between 2 time zones, and expect my Windows 7 laptop to somehow automatically change the system time, being spoiled by the same feature on my cell phone. I always assumed that desktop O/Ses simply did not do this, but I was shocked yesterday when I noticed that OSX on the MacBook actua…