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Recursively rename files through the command line (Windows 7)
Possible Duplicate: Which command can I use to recursively rename or move a file in Windows? Is there a way, through the command line, to recursively rename all .m4v files to .avi? only works for the folder(s) selected, and ignores the folders under them, and as best I can tell there is no recursiv…
foobar2000 with Google Music?
Is there way to connect foobar2000 to Google Music? I was looking for some add-on but to no avail.
What do the different formats for network addresses indicate?
I've seen the following forms for network addresses: 10.1.1.0 172.16.1.0 192.168.1.0 I usually see 192.168.1.0 for my home network address. Sometimes I've seen the other two forms listed above. What do setups with the other two network addresses indicate?
Play/pause pandora.com with a media key
I have a Microsoft keyboard with a play/pause button. Is there a way I can map the play/pause key to the Play/Pause button on the Pandora website? I use Chrome as my browser and am running Windows 7.
Stop VPN being used on internet traffic on Win 7
Possible Duplicate: How can I make the Windows VPN route selective traffic (by destination network)? How To Use Local Internet Connection To Access Internet While Still Connected with VPN I am using the built in Windows 7 VPN to connect to my work network however when I browse the internet its goin…
How do I create an MBR on a USB stick using DD command line tool
Okay I'm trying to create a BOOTABLE Windows7 image on a USB key from a Mac running Lion. My image is .iso format. I tried: And this succeeded in writing the files, except in DISK UTILITY on the mac, it shows the partition type as GUID Partition Table and not 'Master Boor Record'. Booting the key o…
Pentadactyl with DuckDuckGo as default search engine
I'd like to set DuckDuckGo as Pentadactyl's default search engine. I added DuckDuckGo's query URL to about:config's keyword.URL variable. I also installed DuckDuckGo's engine via "Add to Firefox" link. What else can I do?
Where can one find quickly what is the maximum resolution that a graphics card supports?
I'm in the process of replacing two home laptops that have gotten weary with age, with rather simple/cheap desktop computers. Both laptops were unique that they were used in combination with external monitors, which was a a rather nice setup, and they (graphics cards and the external monitors) supp…
I have compiled ImageMagick on my CentOS, and RMagick won't install
I installed ImageMagick through, (Using ImageMagick 6.7.3-7) When I try to I get This is despite the fact that MagickWand.h is already in the system in . So the question is, how do I actually get the compiler to look in there?
Using git through cygwin on windows 8
I've got a windows 8 dev preview (not sure if it's relevant, but I never had this hassle on w7) machine and I'm trying to clone a git repo from github. The problem is that my ~/.ssh/id_rsa has 440 permissions and it needs to be 400. I've tried chmodding it but the any changes on the user permission…
In video card specs, does “maximum resolution” mean the resolution for EACH monitor?
In video card specs on Nvidia or AMD’s web sites they often list maximum display resolution. If a card has two DVI ports or two DisplayPorts, and has a maximum resolution of 2560×1600, does that mean I can hook up two monitors, each up to 2560×1600? Or does it mean that the combined resolution of b…
What is the safe temperature limit for a consumer SATA hard drive?
Background My personal desktop system at home has 5 SATA drives racked up inside. Recently my system started failing in odd ways like random kernel panics and I eventually traced it to random degrades on the RAID array. Sometimes I could boot, other times I couldn't and so on. After chasing softwar…
Is overclocking legal?
Is overclocking your CPU and GPU classified as being legal ? If so, why don't manufacturers make overclocking easier so that just about anyone is able to play around with it ? - at own risk of course.
Can't copy paste on the first try
When I try to copy and paste something from firefox to say notepad or word, it doesn't work on the first try. That is I go to firefox, select text, right click, select copy, then switch to notepad, right click, select paste, but it pastes not the thing which I copied just now, but whatever was in t…
Excel 2007: Conditional formatting so that each row shows low values yellow, high values red
I have a spreadsheet with approx 300 rows. Each row has about 15 columns, and each cell contains a numeric value. Each row corresponds to a product. I want to get Excel, for each product, to highlight the cells with the highest numbers in red and the lowest numbers in yellow, with a gradient for nu…
Why is my text size so small after changing my screen magnification to 125% and back?
I recently changed my screen magnification to "Medium - 125%" in Control Panel -> Appearance and Personalization -> Display, to test it out. I logged out and logged back in, and it worked. I didn't like it, so I changed the setting back to the default value of "Smaller - 100%". I logged out and log…
How do I add permissions via command line for "everyone" on external HDD
I have an external HDD and I kind of messed up the file permissions but when fixing it I thought it is ok bc with my username I can access the files perfectly fine. Now that I use this with two PC (actually ATM I don't have access to my other PC) I can't access these files. The problem is this dire…
How do you associate the .exe file extension with a program in Windows?
A few years ago I saw somebody play a prank on somebody by associating the file extension with Internet Explorer. This made Internet Explorer open up every time the person wanted to start a program. Unfortunately, I forgot how this was done. I tried to use the Control Panel tool, but it didn't list…
Is there a way to cause chrome/ie/firefox to reload the local "hosts" file without restarting the app?
In my occupation as a sysadmin, I often find times where I need to "game the system" by editing the host file. Doing so preempts any dns records for a domain name and allows me to make the ip whatever I want for a given hostname. This is extremely useful. The downside to this is that every time I w…
Microsoft Word 2010 - Conditional Formatting
Is there a way to apply conditional formatting to a table in Microsoft Word 2010, in much the same way that it is possible in Microsoft Excel? Thanks.