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Highlighting a search term without moving the cursor
Using Vim, I sometimes find myself staring at a section of source code for a while and suddenly want some variable on the screen to pop out. That's easy: which highlights them all. My issue is that it more often than not the search shifts my window so I'm not looking at the source code from the sam…
Which is faster, copying everything at once or one thing at a time?
I am transferring a bunch (20+) of large (1GB+) files to my external flash drive over USB 2.0. Is it quicker to just sling them all over at once (as in one at a time but not waiting for the previous transfer to finish) so that there are multiple transfers going on, or transfer one, wait for it to f…
How could I find out the path to the current desktop image?
I have Windows 7 displaying random images every minute from all of my photo directories and every so often there is one I really want to see again. How can I either always display on the screen the image path/filename? Or perhaps I could simply look at a registry setting or something at the time th…
Starting application with custom keyboard shortcut
Mac OS 10.6 has a "Keyboard Shortcuts" preference pane in System Preferences. It lets you add new entries, but they don't seem to work. Is this the correct way to add hotkeys? For instance I would like Command+Esc to open Terminal.app.
How can I set it up so I can SSH into my VMWare guest VM?
For some reason, documentation on this process on the internet is quite lacking or out of date. Basically, I have a guest VMWare virtual machine in VMWare Fusion (running Ubuntu 10.10), and I have Mac OSX 10.6 as the host. I want to be able to SSH from the Mac to the Linux VM. How can I configure t…
Escaping query strings with wget --mirror
I'm using to mirror a site, but I end up with lots of filenames in the format . When I try to view these in a browser it fails, because the browser ignores the query string when loading the file. Is there any way to replace the character in the filenames with something else? The answer of worked co…
Is there a key combination to cycle through clipboard history when pasting in windows?
In Visual Studio, I can cycle through my clipboard history by pressing rather than . I believe it's called a clipboard ring. But that feature doesn't seem to exist outside of Visual Studio, at least not with the same key combination. Is there a key stroke combination built in to windows to do the s…
Adding file type to ack permanently
I've recently learned how to let ack support more filetypes (adding the following to ): Unfortunately, that produces an info line on every ack search I use, even ones with 0 results. Is there a way to make this a more permanent addition? (i.e. get rid of this info line) This looks to me like it's a…
How to list all source files (*.c, *.cpp, *.h)
I'd like to find source files (*.c, *.cpp, *.h) that contain in Linux/MinGW/Cygwin, and recursively in all sub directories. My basic idea is using and . However, building a regular expression that can check given file name is either *.c, *.cpp, or *.h isn't easy. Could you help me out?
X11 forwarding from Amazon EC2 AMI
Hence the display is not forwarded. a command like for instance does not show the X11 window on the local desktop. Please advise.
How can I copy a (big) directory over another changing only the files that differ?
I have directory a and directory b. They are big. b is almost identical to a. "almost" means that 4-5 files differ, and I don't know which they are. I want to copy b over a, but only the files that differ. i'm in bash. (no, I can't simply delete a and replace it with b, because 1) a is version-cont…
Windows with a better filesystem
From my observations as a Java developer working on Windows workstations, NTFS is slow compared to Linux filesystems. Question is, is there anything in the NTFS driver that can be manually tuned, for example give it more memory for cache? Enable some experimental algorithms? If that's not available…
Does NAT provide security?
I'm following discussions about the IPv4->IPv6 transition, and IPv6 doesn't seem to like NAT at all. I've always thought that NAT was helpful in v4 for some security, I know it doesn't really hide the computers but it makes them harder to get to, certainly it makes it easy to limit access to ports …
Google Chrome: Always On Top Bug
Sorry for the vague title but this one is hard to explain so bear with me please. I'm using Windows Vista at work for web development and sometimes when I Click or Alt-Tab to background window, the window will get focus but it will not be brought to the front. In order to bring the window to the fr…
How can I get Vim to indent all the lines in a list item - not just the second?
The option of Vim's setting will indent the second line of a list item to match the indentation of the first line. However, the third and subsequent lines revert to no indentation, thus: I'd really like it to indent all the lines, like this: Is this possible, either using Vim's own options, a scrip…
Emulate fake monitor on Windows 7?
Is there a way to emulate a monitor on Windows 7? I have one physical monitor, and I want Windows to think I have two. I actually don't care whether the second monitor is visible anywhere, or if I can see it - everything rendered there may as well go to the equivalent of /dev/null - but I need Wind…
How can I guess if a USB cable will power my devices?
I've had problems with one long (4 meter) USB Mini-B to USB Type-A cable not being able to boot a 2.5'' external hard disc due to not supplying enough current. On top of that, the cable used a Type-A to Mini-B adapter for the Mini-B part, which probably made things worse. Three different shorter ca…
Is it possible to change the voice of the "say" command?
Is it possible to change the voice that Mac OS X uses for the command? How?
How can I import a PST file to Gmail?
I'm in the process of moving my email to Gmail. I used to use Outlook and I have a massive amount of email stored in various PST files (about 7GB worth). Ultimately I'd like to store this all in Gmail so I have my entire email archive available. I imported my first PST file using Outlook's IMAP fea…
In linux, why are folders for configuration files always named *.d
In linux, why are folders for configuration files always named ? Say