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Mirroring a web site behind a login form
Short version: I'd like to snap an offline copy of a URL which includes the full HTML+CSS+JS+images and saves them locally, keeping the structure and file content of the original site. I'm having trouble with the tools I can find (e.g. "Save Complete" Firefox extension, HTTrack, wget, Teleport Pro)…
Bare-metal virtualisation for the desktop
What knowledge exists about bare-metal virtualization products? I'm interested in building a new desktop machine for home. I've been looking at the Intel Quad-Core processors, and I'd like to put 8 GB of RAM in there, but it got me thinking about making the most out of the available resources. I th…
How I can make sudo session an hour and not few minutes in Ubuntu 10.04?
How I can make sudo Ubuntu 10.04 session an hour and not few minutes? Now I have to write my password for sudo commands every few minutes.
Finding out the time a filesystem was last mounted
I want to find out the last time a filesystem was mounted on Linux (Debian). Any help?
How can I rearrange the Windows 7 taskbar previews?
I know I can rearrange the applications in my taskbar in Windows 7, but there doesn't seem to be any way to rearrange the previews for each window. For example, I have Firefox open and the Downloads window open, and for some strange reason the Downloads window is now the left-most window, while the…
Do browsers change URLs of saved bookmarks in response to 301 redirection?
HTTP status code 301 is used to indicate that content has moved permanently, and that the returned URL should be used to access the requested content in future. RFC 2616 says Clients with link editing capabilities ought to automatically re-link references to the request-URI to one or more of the ne…
Spawn New Cygwin Window from Within Cygwin
I can't figure out how to launch a new Cygwin session from within Cygwin, similar to launching a new terminal from within bash with: It's probably easy but I am missing something. Any ideas?
How to turn hundreds of text URLs in Excel into clickable hyperlinks?
How do I turn a column of urls into hyperlinks, so that users can click on the url in a cell and have it open in a browser? I pasted 100 urls and each went into its own cell. When I double-click in the cell and then leave it, Excel turns the text blue and makes a link out of it. I don't want to dou…
What is the advantage of iSCSI over SMB?
At my house I'm running a Hyper-V server with a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM acting as a file server. Files are shared across my network using SMB. (Also, the machine is using a PERC 6/i RAID card but I don't think that's important) I'm thinking about setting up a dedicated SAN (iSCSI) machine and the…
How can I mount a VMWare Disk in Windows 7 64-Bit
I need to mount a VMWare disk image in Windows 7 64-Bit however the "VMware Mount Utility" only works on 32-Bit operating systems. Is there an application or method that I can use to mount the disk?
How do I restore the Gnome Panel volume control in Ubuntu?
I use alsa, and I don't have a volume control applet on my Gnome Panel. When I right click and select "add to panel", there is nothing that has to do with "sound", "audio" or "volume" in the list, and the "Indicator Applet" or "Indicator Applet Session" things have no volume controls, or properties…
Does https encrypt URLs, too?
This is fairly easy. If I go to , will the part be protected, or just the contents of the site?
Why does Windows 7 always automatically change the input or keyboard language?
I am wondering why Windows 7 always automatically changes my input or keyboard language. I've a notebook with an integrated QWERTY keyboard English (United States). Traveling, I use that one but, additionally, I've my own as well as a much better keyboard at home which is a QWERTZ keyboard German (…
Notepad2 or Notepad++ and why?
Why should I choose one over the other, or should I go another way?
Mouse cursor in Terminal?
I use Mac OS X Terminal.app. But the answer to this would probably apply to any typical UNIX-ish terminal emulator in a graphical environment. Question -- what do I do to: Use my mouse cursor to click on a character-position in the current line of the terminal, and have the terminal's cursor jump t…
How to get more search engines in Chrome right click?
Right now, if I select something and do a right click, the only search option I see is Search Google for 'whatever I selected' For example: How do I add more search engines to this list?
How to use ack to search for file name
I have started using ack which is much faster than grep. However using ack I want to search for file name rather than file contents. Is there a way to do that?
Easiest way to get right-click "Open command window here" with admin priveleges in Windows 7
I don't want to install PowerToys, I'd rather a simpler solution for this specific problem. I've tried . I've tried adding a registry script, but I get the following error: Cannot import D:\Admin\Reg\Open command window here (Administrator)\Open command window here (Administrator).reg: The specifie…
How can I still see the 'man' text after I quit man?
I typically use tcsh or bash and often want to use 'man' to review a command's options. Currently when I quit man or ctrl-C, the man text disappears and I see the scrollback buffer that was there before I performed the 'man' command. I would like to still see the 'man' text I was viewing as a refer…
How can I kill an unkillable process?
I closed an application, but the process remained in the list. I try to stop in from the task manager, but nothing happens. No error messages, process just stays in the list. I try to debug it, but the debugger says: Unable to attach to the crashing process. The requested operation is not supported…