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What can I safely delete from the "C:\WINDOWS" folder?
I have a Windows 7 system, and my C: drive is regularly getting full. What can I safely delete from the C: drive, especially the Windows system folder?
What is the colorized version of the Linux "top" program?
I didn't know "top" had a nicer colorized version like this. What is the command? Does anyone recognize this?
Better GUI for vim?
I enjoy using vim, its endless features and the way it does things (for the most part). I've been using it on and off (not as my main editor) for at least 7 years now, so while I'm far from being an expert, I generally know my way around it. Now, while I love it in the command-line, I'd really like…
Where to find the Mona Lisa icon from Windows 3.1?
In the old Windows 3.1 days I had an icon of an expressive and very good pixel-art reproduction of DaVinci's Mona Lisa portrait. I'd like to have this icon again, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Which .DLL file was it located in? The icon looked like this: I checked into and some other files from …
Sharing a GNU Screen Session
I have a meeting with a professor coming up shortly, but he won't be at school for a face-to-face meeting. Instead he will meet with me via Skype and an SSH login. I'm a heavy user of GNU Screen, but I've never used its multiuser functionality before. How would I go about setting up multiuser capab…
Piping in and out of tar and gzip
I am trying to get a handle on how to pipe from a command into something like gzip, cpio or tar. The commands in question belong to the ZFS system. I am running ZFS on Ubuntu Linux 10.04.3. The commands I working with are; These parts I understand. But my first question is, what would I do to pipe …
OS X Lion new Finder view that doesn't allow sorting
In OS X, from Lion onwards, when I click on some of my folders in Finder and the title row of the files contains the usual stuff like "Date Modified" and "Size". However unlike the old Finder view I can't click on them to sort. Why is that and how do I make it never show up ever again?
How to SSH to localhost without password?
EDIT: Putting exactly what was done. I need to SSH to without a password, the usual way of doing it (with public keys) do not work. So as you can see in the last command it is still asking the password !!! How can I fix that ?? Ubuntu-10.04 , OpenSSH_5.3p1 EDIT2: Adding some info about the sshd EDI…
Which virtual machine software is preferable for running Windows 8 Developer Preview?
I want to preview Windows 8 and decided to install it on a virtual machine as I don't want to format an existing partition. Installing Windows 8 by mounting the results in the primary partition getting formated and losing the current operating system. Can anyone who has tried installing Windows 8 i…
How to use yum to reinstall all dependencies of a given package?
So I have a package that I am pretty sure that I removed part of one of its dependencies when removing something(as in rm). Long story. Basically what I want to do is have yum re-install the package and all of its dependencies so that it will re-install the files I removed. In the gentoo world you …
How do I join a Windows 8 PC into a domain?
How can I enroll a Windows 8 PC into an existing domain?
How do I find out the speed of an Ethernet cable?
During the years I've collected many ethernet cables. I'd like to know the speed of each one (10Mbit / 10BASE-T or 100Mbit / 100BASE-TX or 1000BASE-T). How could I find out the speed of each Ethernet cable? Most cables have codes written on it but I don't know how to figure out the speed from this …
Equivalent of badblocks on Windows or DOS
Is there a utility in DOS or Windows that is as thorough as badblocks on Linux?
How to use fish shell in cygwin?
Is it possible to use the fish shell with cygwin? I wasn't able to compile the source in cygwin, and I didn't find any precompiled packages. Is there a good reason for not having fish in cygwin?
Export Windows 7 search results to a text file
In Windows 7, is there a way to get a list the files returned by the Advanced Query Syntax (AQS)? Here is an example query: I want the list of files returned by that query in a text document. Can I use AQS from the command line?
How do I change the order of screens in byobu?
I'd like to bind Shift + ← and Shift + → to move my current screen left/right in the ordering of screens. How can this be done? These are the versions I'm using:
Can you shrink the sparse disk image of a Mac OS X guest OS in VMWare Fusion?
I use VMWare Fusion on my Mac to run a virtual Windows 7 machine, and the Microsoft IE compatibility Windows XP virtual machines. In VMWare Tools on the Windows guest OSes, there’s a “Shrink” option that lets you reduce the size of the sparse disk image used by the guest OS, to save hard drive spac…
How to do "legacy" ZIP compression with 7zip?
We have an old application that requires zip files to be "legacy" format. I would really love to get rid of the adware ridden WinZip and use 7zip. However, I don't know which compression options and such equal out to "legacy". How to do it? For reference the compression methods I have to choose fro…
How does Memtest86 function with bad RAM?
I was reading another question about Memtest and started wondering: How does Memtest86 function with bad RAM? Think about it: Memtest86 needs to store information about how large the RAM is, what it put in RAM to compare later, where to update the screen, and a lot more information. The act of usin…
How can I rotate PDF files by 90° in Google Chrome?
Sometimes I have PDF files that have pages shown horizontally. I usually use Google Chrome to open PDF files, and I was wondering is there anyway to "turn" the file by 90 degrees so that I can read it in Google Chrome?