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Excel 2010 on multi monitor screen
With office 2010 I would like to open two excel document on different monitor. The only way I achieved to do this was to widden the Excel main window over the both screen which is not very convenient because: the mouse operation is not so easy. it hides what is between the two excel sheet. Excel 20…
Shutting down PC without killing SSH sessions
I have some heavy, long processes running on remote Linux machines. I use my laptop to SSH to these machine and run the processes from my couch. BUT, when I want to shutdown my laptop, I am in trouble since the remote processes are killed. I did my research and found out that "screen" is a great so…
How do I make Windows 7 less aggressive in caching memory?
I've noted recently that Windows 7 on my machine has been complaining about running out of memory and that I should close some programs. It would then usually point out a program I have running that does have a memory leak and has grown quite large. However, usually these programs start at 20MB of …
How permanently change Linux swap disk priority
I’m using two swap disks. Changing the order they are in in and using in doesn’t seem to have any effect. This is what it looks like in the : This is the output of : It’s the opposite of what it is in , and changes to seem to have no effect.
.bat file: only the first line is being executed - why?
I have the first .bat file, down.bat, for downloading movie trailers from apple.com: And I also have this second file, batch.bat with all the trailers I want to download: When I run it from cmd.exe, only the first trailer gets downloaded, just like there is only one line in the batch.bat file. How …
Difference Between Cores and Processors
I am confused by the difference between "Cores" and "Processors". A lot of the computers are 2-cores, 4-cores. Does this mean that they have one processor with 2 or 4 cores on that single processor? Also, for intel core i5, it seems that there are 4 CPUs in the task manager, are they referring to 4…
How can I disable the F Lock key on my Natural Keyboard 4000?
How can I disable the F Lock key on my Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 (v1.0)? I don't want to physically disable the key so I would like a software fix. The keyboard is connected by USB and does not have a PS/2 connector.
Anyone know how to modify settings for the Apple Magic Trackpad on Windows (without Boot Camp)?
Anyone know how to modify settings for the Apple Magic Trackpad on Windows (without Boot Camp)? I was able to install the driver and make it work. However, tap-to-click appears to be on by default, and I think this would work much better if I could turn that off. The problem with just installing th…
In wireless networks what does DTIM do, and can it increase wireless network performance?
I've seen some routers with the option of configuring the DTIM interval, most of them are set to 1 or 2. What is the purpose of the setting?
.profile or .bash_profile
I'm confused, where do I set environmental variables? In .profile or in .bash_profile? I am using both mac osx and ubuntu. Confused as to which one I use here.
Sync Chromium without google account
I admit it, i'm a bit paranoid.. I have come to like firefox sync together with my own sync server. Now for various reasons, I'm tempted to use Chromium (or Iron) instead. Now is there a way to have bookmarks, passwords etc. synchronised without pushing the data to google? WebDAV or something like …
How to replace Windows Explorer breadcrumbs with classic full path textbox?
I want to permanently replace the Windows Explorer folder-buttons breadcrumbs address bar with the classic full file path textbox address bar. I know you can double click on the address bar to convert it from breadcrumbs to textbox. But I want to set this permanently. This is for Windows 7 (but I t…
How to delete a font in Windows 7 that is still in use?
I installed a barcode font for a project. The font was installed thru the Fonts control panel. Now I would like to remove the font from my system but when I try to delete it it gives me a warning about the font being in use. I've shut down all running applications but I still get the error message.…
How to untar an archive from one directory to another in linux?
I want to untar a package from one directory to another directory, directly from the command prompt. I want to untar the joomla package into the htdocs directory of xampp. How to do that directly from command prompt ? The reason i am asking this is if I try the "drag and drop" way, it won't be poss…
Where is the list of available Windows locales?
If you open the (via ), and click on the tab, then there is a drop down list of all the available locales. Where is this list populated from? (I want to compare the settings for each locale; I'm fine with how to do that, but I need a list of locale names to loop over.) EDIT: After browsing through …
How to make Shared Keys .ssh/authorized_keys and sudo work together?
I've setup the .ssh/authorized_keys and am able to login with the new "user" using the pub/private key ... I have also added "user" to the sudoers list ... the problem I have now is when I try to execute a sudo command, something simple like: it will prompt me for my password, which I enter, but it…
How to combine three keys as a hotkey with Autohotkey?
I want to combine keys in a single hotkey, such as this: This doesn't work because Autohotkey doesn't allow the combination of more than two keys except the modifier keys. Searching for a solution I found out that using scan codes in left hand side might be a work around, such as: I tested this sol…
Cygwin/Git Bizarre Terminal Issue
Alright, this is weird. First off, this is mintty running on up-to-date cygwin, with git pulled from cygwin's setup.exe. I am running zsh. What is going on here? Is this a terminal problem, a shell problem, a git problem, or a cygwin problem? Update: Yes, I'm running the Cygwin git version, not the…
Why multi core processors?
Why are chips containing more and more cores? Why not manufacture a larger single-core processor? Is it easier to manufacture? Is it to allow programs to multithread using seperate cores?
Batch Update Symbolic Links Recursively
I have a web app that has a bunch of symbolic links in subdirectories throughout it. I need to move the app to another directory structure, and I need to update all the symlinks to point to the new path. For example: Old Dir: New Dir: Old Symlink: New Symlink: The problem is that there's a lot of t…