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How do you sync tabs between computers with Mozilla Firefox Sync?
Mozilla says that with Firefox Sync if you are working on one computer with 5 tabs open you can then switch to another computer or device and Sync can or will update the second computer with those tabs. How do I do this? BACKGROUND I have setup Firefox Sync on both devices and they have been synced…
How to kill a zombie process on a mac
How to kill a zombie process or find it's parent process on a Mac using the Terminal?
Is there a KVM switch that supports *dual monitors* using DVI or HDMI?
I have been looking for a KVM switch that I could hook up to my laptop docking station so that I could dock my work laptop at home, flip a switch, and have my laptop use my home PC's keyboard, mouse, and two monitors. I can't seem to find one on Amazon or Newegg. No VGA ports. That's oldschool and …
How to move an existing installation of Window 7 64bit to UEFI (from legacy)
I have a laptop that has Windows 7 64 bit Enterprise edition. It is already filled with plenty of Software and drivers. The laptop (Dell E6220) supports booting through UEFI, but the insatllition was on legacy BIOS. When I try to change the booting from Legacy to UEFI I get an error message that no…
Moving hidden files/folders with the command-line or batch-file
Question Does anyone know of a way to move files and folders that have the hidden, system, or read-only attribute set from the command-line or a batch file? (No, stripping the attributes first is not an option since there is no practical way to know which attributes were set in order to re-set them…
Total Commander: Duplicate current path of the panel in the other panel
I want to duplicate current path of the panel in the other panel with one shortcut. This is like swapping panels but instead of swapping I want to duplicate. In xplorer2 this is done with . How to do this in Total Commander?
Can a virus on a flash drive run itself without autorun?
Someone told me that it's possible for a virus to run itself from Flash memories even if is not present or this feature is disabled using . He said a virus can run itself as soon as I plug in a flash memory. Is it correct?
Hide annoying VMware hint "To release input, press Ctrl+Alt"
I'm running VMWare Workstation 7 on Windows 7 x64. In the guest OS (also Windows 7 x64) I have VMWare Tools installed, but the VMWare Tools service is disabled. I run the VM in full screen mode and the VMWare toolbar at the top often displays this tooltip: To release input, press Ctrl+Alt This tool…
How do I partition and mount a 3TB Hard Disk using the terminal?
I have a 3TB Hard disk which I wish to mount as a single partition under Ubuntu 11.10 server Because it is over 2TB I know there are some issues with this. I'm unsure of what I need to do to make this happen. I need to do this via the terminal because I am using the server edition
Is there a way to hide single bookmarks or bookmark folders in Google Chrome (or Chromium)?
In Opera I can choose to hide bookmarks and bookmark folders from the bookmark bar, is this also possible with Google Chrome or Chromium? As a workaround I put all the bookmarks I don't want to see in a separate folder within a folder that's on the bookmark bar. The "Other Bookmarks" folder is not …
qemu: Set or force higher screen resolution than 640x480
I set up a virtual machine using qemu-system-arm (ARM emulation) running Debian squeeze. Now I have the problem that in the "Monitors" preferences, I can only select 640x480 as resolution. Tried all different -vga options (cirrus, std, vmware) with no luck. Are there any tricks, maybe with xorg con…
White color is not white in Windows Picture Viewer
Recently bought new monitor. And connected it with HDMI. No new monitor extends my laptops in-built monitor. There is 1 problem with white color (all other colors are awesome) This is how Windows 7 Picture viewer and Windows Live Photo Viewer shows picture. (As you see not only picture but backgrou…
Why am I always asked to unlock my login keyring at startup?
I'm using the xfce window manager and reboot and shutdown seem to work normally. However, whenever I log back in, I always see the following: Why do I always see this message? I would expect that my screen would be blank or at least be locked up, but nothing like that happens. What's the point of e…
How can I make Firefox remember my proxy's username and password?
I'm using Firefox with a proxy. Every time I restart the browser, I have to enter the proxy's username and password. Is there any way to get Firefox to remember the username and password and send it automatically so I don't have to type it in manually? NTLM won't help as the proxy is unrelated to m…
View unicode codepoints for all letters in file on bash
I have to deal with a file that has lot of invisible control characters, like "right to left" or "zero width non-joiner", different spaces than the normal space and so on, and I have troubles dealing with that. Now, I would like to somehow view all letters in a given file, letter by letter (I would…
Per-directory bash/zsh history log files
I find I do a lot of work on a project in a set directory. Sometimes — a few months down the track — I need to redo something on that project but I can't remember what I did. I use mercurial or git to track changes to files but I want to be able to remember what commands I issued in that directory.…
Is there a way of using ctrl-r after typing part of command in bash?
In bash the Ctrl+r command is very useful, I type Ctrl+r and it searchs my history for commands containing the word . But if I type and realize that I would like search that word and hit Ctrl+r nothing happens. Is there a way hitting a key and having it behaving as if I had typed Ctrl+r instead of …
How can I create a link to a specific position on a web page?
Is it possible to create a hyperlink to a specific scroll position on a web page? For example, I'd like to create a link to http://www.stackoverflow.com/, but with the page scrolled down 100 pixels.
systemctl enable differs from systemctl start, how?
I am running an Arch Linux (latest, up-to-date) box, and attempting to get MySQL to start at boot. With the systemd package installed I have systemctl available, and as such I can do things like this: That's all fine, and works great when I want to start/stop manually, however, when it comes to get…
How to set the default page layout from RTL to LTR in Excel 2010?
Whenever I open an Excel spreadsheet, it is displayed in a right-to-left layout by default (i.e the right most column is and I need to scroll to the left to reach further columns). I can change the layout by going to the menu and disabling the button. How can I do it permanently so all spreadsheets…