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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 …
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…
How to copy picture from a file to clipboard
How do I copy a picture from a file to the clipboard? I can just select the file and press . But that wouldn't copy it to clipboard. It'll just be marking it if I want to copy the file somewhere else. I can open the file in Paint and then change the selection to cover all the picture. I need someth…
How to reorder the files of a FAT32 file system?
I know this sounds a bit strange, but for some reasons, my car audio system is displaying the folders in the order it has been copied. There is no setting in the system to display the folders in an alphabetical order. This is really annoying as I have about 30GB of music which means a lot of folder…
How do I extract all the external links of a web page and save them to a file?
How do I extract all the external links of a web page and save them to a file? If you have any command line tools that would be great.
Why do I Get [[: not found When Running a Script?
I'm trying to write a script that has to check if a file exists. In the console I write and I get but when I write a script to do the same thing: and then execute the script, I get this: I saved the script on the current directory and named it ex.sh, then I made sure it is executable. To call the s…
VMWare Invisible Mouse Pointer
When I work remotely and remote desktop from my WinXP machine to a Win7 box everything is fine. When I launch a virtual machine from within that Win7 box and use my mouse pointer it is invisible inside the VM. If I hover over the title bar area of the running VM my mouse pointer will turn into a ha…
Is there a way to power down a USB device using software?
Is there a way that I can power off a (specific) USB device completely using software from a Linux machine? I want to use this to power off (so that the LED is off) a (single) USB stick. Do you know any method to achieve this? E.g. using /sys/bus/usb or the like?
Program for creating language syntax/grammar "railroad" diagrams?
I'm looking for the program that JSON, SQLite and other projects are using to create the diagrams used for their language syntax, if there is a particular program. All of the diagrams have a similar style, with partially curved connections or arrows indicating flow. There are some differences, maki…
How to change the syntax highlighting style in Meld
Meld 1.5.1 uses gtksourceview (via pygtksourceview) for its syntax-highlighting, however I'm unable to figure out how to configure it to use a specific style (color scheme/theme) from the ones available to gtksourceview. Maybe the solution is outside of meld - eg, settings the default style used fo…
How do I make and run my own file extension?
I was checking out the files in a old game called Warcraft III and saw that they had files with their own extension, for example, . How do you make your own file extension and run it?
enabling colors in the python interactive shell on OS/X
I have just modified my .bash_profile so as to have colors in iTerm and Terminal. Now, I want to enable syntax highlighting for the Python interactive shell, IDLE-style. How to do that?
What are these different kinds of memory usage in Windows 7 task manager?
In Windows 7's task manager, I can select different columns to show. There are a bunch that are related to memory and memory usage, but I'm not sure what it all means. I have a Dutch installation of Windows, so I'll try to translate them; as I'm not sure of the English names. In order: Working set …
In UDF, what's the difference between a volume identifier, volume set identifier, logical volume identifier, and file set identifier?
I see that has options for four different identifiers: the logical volume ( ), the volume ( ), the volume set ( ), and the file set identifier ( ). It, however, gives no guidance to what those mean. So, I went to the UDF specs. Starting with ISO/IEC 13346 aka ECMA-167, I find that: 10.1.4 Volume Id…
PgUP and PgDN on a Macbook
The one thing that really annoys me about my Macbook is that it's missing the Home, End, Page Up and Page Down buttons. The latter ones I especially miss when interacting with particular console applications ( , for example). Is there any way to assign them to keys I don't actually use, like the bu…
Word 2010: Create a Style without a font color
Is there a way to create a Style that doesn't have a font color. The text that I want to apply the font to is already colored (different colors depending on the word), I just want they style to have the font size and background.
How to reuse/extend etckeeper's metadata engine for git control of non-/etc filesystems, or extend git natively with said capability?
Update: 2020-09-22 After having used it a while (years?), etckeeper+git does not meet the requirements I seek. Overview + question I want etckeeper-like filesystem metadata control for non-/etc, git-controlled directories. Home and web-app directories, among others, are classically sensitive to met…
How do you keep the DVD drive from opening when you get the message "please insert a disk into drive"?
In Windows Explorer, when I click on the drive that happens to be my cd/dvd drive, I get the message "please insert a disk into drive", which might be OK, but then the DVD drive opens and I have to close it. I consider this very rude and I do not like it. Is there a way I can keep the DVD drive fro…
Windows print screen with Mac Keyboard
Can anyone out there tell me how to do a screen capture in Windows with a Mac keyboard plugged in? I have my Mac keyboard and mighty mouse plugged into a KVM switch that controls both my MacbookPro and my WinXP desktop. I'm having a terrible time trying to do certain things that require those extra…
Why is the default tab size 8 spaces? Where does this come from and why is it that big?
When I push in many applications like , OpenOffice etc., the tab size is equivalent to 8 spaces/characters. This is the default for many applications. When the default terminal size is 80 chars horizontally, why is the tab size this big? After 5 tabs I am half way across the terminal, and text star…