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Stop cron from emailing me
How can I stop cron from emailing me the results of jobs I schedule?
How do I troubleshoot a Windows 7 freeze or slowness?
Possible Duplicate: What are the first steps for diagnosing a slow machine? I have a new pc with windows 7 which freezes randomly. I hit every single key on the keyboard and it works again. Is there a way to prevent windows 7 from freezing?
Is there any way to tell if an SD card has been used?
I ordered a “new” micro SD card from Amazon Marketplace. However, it was sent in a small cheap plastic bag instead of the original package. I put it into my PC and found it to be empty but formatted. Do SD cards normally come formatted out of the box? Does that mean it was already used? If not, is …
How do I resolve the error "Excel found unreadable content in (filename)"?
Sometimes when I open certain worksheets in Excel 2010 I see the message in the title. Excel then asks if I want to repair the file. I say "Yes" and Excel reports that the file is repaired. A log file says something about . However, there does not seem to be anything missing from the file, and all …
Windows 7 Aero theme's "greyed out" - no found fix
Brand new machine that was working fine then randomly it changed the theme when I booted into a sort of "basic" theme (white task bar, no see through windows etc) I've done and attempted many fixes and I still don't understand why it doesn't work. I've tried these two solutions: "How to enable Wind…
Setting ID3 title tag to be equal to MP3 file name
Has anyone got a bash script that will go through a media library and set the id3 title tag of each MP3 file to be equal to the file's name? I'm open to other automated methods too. It can be a GUI application or anything that will do the job automatically. An EasyTag method is noted here: How to r…
How can I prevent Ctrl+Shift from changing the text direction?
In Windows 7 and 8, the following keyboard shortcuts exist when both left-to-right and right-to-left languages are installed: Ctrl+Right Shift sets the text direction to right-to-left. Ctrl+Left Shift sets the text direction to left-to-right. This is a problem because they conflict with the standar…
How can I force my browser to search Google in English?
I'm too bored of seeing sites like Google and such show up in my native language, I would rather like them to be in English. Yet, I have to explicitly change the URL to and and that kind of parameters in order for them to show up in English. Can I somehow force this? So, how is Google configured? H…
Make media button on keyboard open Winamp instead of WMP
For the longest time the Media button on my keyboard used to launch Winamp. I don't remember having to do anything to set that up. But suddenly now the button launches stupid Windows Media Player when I press it. I have tried everything I can think of to change it back. Winamp is set to open all th…
Can I delete Windows 8 ESD file?
I've just installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview and runned diskcleanup in order to delete windows.OLD file and everything is OK, but now want I delete the remaining WindowsESD file. Is there a way? If so, how do I do this?
Copy/Pasting data from SQL Server to Excel splits up text into multiple columns?
I've got a problem pasting data from the result grid of SQL Server 2005 to an Excel 2007 spreadsheet. I have a query in SQL Server that returns 2 columns (a number column and a text column). On one computer I can happily copy (right-click > copy) and then just right-click and paste into an Excel sp…
How to change keyboard layout via command line cmd.exe on Windows XP/7?
Is is possible to change the keyboard layout via command line on Windows XP/7?
Remove NVIDIA Update and UpdatusUser
Does anyone know how to remove the user created by installing the NVIDIA driver? Or better yet, how to install the drivers in such a way that won't even be created? I have tried choosing custom installation and unchecking , but that does not work. Also, I have tried uninstalling NVIDIA update from …
Notification area Windows 7: The missing option?
The settings for the notification area in Windows 7 have three options: Show icon and notifications Hide icon and notifications Only show notifications Well here is my problem. I have a misbehaving application that doesn't have any settings to turn off notifications. And it keeps nagging me to upda…
Get current window number for bash prompt
I want to replace status bar with bash prompt displaying window number like ①. How can I get current window number in the shell? There's TMUX_PANE env variable, unfortunately no TMUX_WINDOW. The closest I got is: to flash window/pane info, then take last line of and parse it. I don't want the windo…
How to compress jpg images in Linux
I know that there is 'jpegoptim' to do so. But it not always downsize images as expected. For example if I execute on a 550KB image, the size will not really reduce. So I am wondering if there are some more efficient tools to do so. Thanks
Multiple crontabs for one user
is there a way to use multiple crontab files for one user? Thinking something along the lines of crontab file per project instead of crontab per user... Any help is appreciated...
Public/Private key locations with Enigmail and Thunderbird on Windows
Sorry if this is a simple answered question, I just cannot find what I'm looking for. I'd like to find the location of my public/private key combinations on my Windows machine that I made through Enigmail, so I can distribute my public key and make a few backups of my private key. Any ideas where I…
Why does certain characters draw horribly, horribly wrong in Windows?
Odd characters: ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้ Question: Why does these charac…
How do I permantly set the command-prompt codepage in Windows 7?
I would like to set permantly in DOS the codepage. How can I store the result of that command?