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Is there a US International keyboard layout on Linux that mimics Windows' behavior?
I am used to using US International as my keyboard layout. However, the implementation appears to differ greatly between Windows and Linux (Gnome, in my case – may well be a GTK issue since GTK behaves the same on Windows). The layout uses dead keys, for example for keys such as ', ", ^, &c. allowi…
Is there anything else like TiddlyWiki?
From Wikipedia - TiddlyWiki: TiddlyWiki is a wiki-modeled client-side single-page application Does anyone know of anything else like TiddlyWiki? It seems to stand alone in its field. Specifically, it is a self contained single file that modifies its own content. Besides a web browser nothing else n…
Can a Linux machine act as both a wireless client and access point simultaneously using a single physical WLAN interface?
If I have only 1 physical WLAN interface, is there some hackery that can be done so that it can be a client of an existing access point and at the same time also act as an access point for other clients? I have an existing 802.11g ADSL router, and I'm going to be building an HTPC which will have 80…
Command-line access for Apple Time Machine?
We use Apple's Time Machine to back up our Apple 10.5.8 workstations at the office. If I want to restore a file, I need to open up the Time Machine GUI and browse files there. The GUI is ugly eye-candy and gets in my way. Is there a way to browse the Time Machine archive using the Mac's command-lin…
Windows 7 - Remote Desktop - multiple credentials
My home network consists of a couple Windows XP machines and a Windows 7 box. One of the Windows XP boxes is like a shared server accessed via Remote Desktop. I have an account on there and my gf has another. Previously I was able to save RDC shortcuts to this shared server including credentials. S…
Closing telnet connection gracefully from session mode itself without going to telnet prompt
a normal telnet connection is like this: I want to close it from telnet session itself without coming to telnet prompt by pressing. My requirement is that if i press some control character from telnet session itself like CTRL+A so it will come out of session and close it automatically. something li…
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…
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?
How can I use cp to copy a directory but ignore a certain sub directory in Linux
Due to a Hard disk problem I am trying to shift a partition from one hard disk to another. I am following http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-partplan.html article to do that. In the copying part I would like to ignore one particular sub directory. How can I accomplish that keeping in mind …
How are IP addresses assigned?
How are IP addresses assigned? What if someone from USA and someone from Australia connected to the internet at the same time - how would they not have the same IP address?
How to check if power cable is connected from the command line?
I'm running ubuntu on my notebook and I need a way to check (from the command line) if the power cable is connected. Is there any system file that keeps log of this? or is there a bash command that will help me? I need this for a script that will behave differently depending on whether the power co…
check if my ethernet controller supports gigabit Ethernet
Is there a command that i can issue in Ubuntu to see explicitly if my ethernet controller supports gigabit ethernet?
How do I mount a HFS+ dd image in OS X?
I had an HFS+ formatted drive that was going bad and wouldn't mount at all on OS X. I created an image using on linux, and was able to save most of it. I can mount the drive and see the data just fine in linux using this: This doesn't work on my OS X system since hfsplus isn't a valid filesystem ty…
Adjust screen brightness automatically at night
Can anyone tell me how to automatically dim my monitors when it gets dark at night?
Does Windows 7 have unzip at the command line installed by default?
There is a zip/unzip option in the context menu so is it accessible from the command line?
Do SSD hybrid drives perform better than HDD + ReadyBoost flash?
Seagate has released a product called the Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Drive. This looks exactly like what Windows ReadyBoost attempts to do with software at the OS level: Pairing the benefits of a large hard drive together with the performance of solid-state flash memory. Does the Momentus XT ou…
Add panel to secondary monitor on Ubuntu 10.04
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and I was wondering if it is possible to put a panel on a secondary monitor. Here are methods I have tried which did not work: Click and drag the panel from the primary monitor to the secondary monitor Installing TwinView (couldn't find it)
Is putting the swapfile & temp folder to ramdisk a good idea in Windows 7 64 bit with lots of RAM?
I want my Windows to run as fast as possible. If I have 12GB RAM in Windows 7 64bit, quad core CPU, and all apps fit in memory, will the swap file ever be used for anything? The question is about if it's a good idea to put the swap file in a RAM disk. Would a RAM disk help in any way or will Window…
What happens to running processes when I lose a remote connection to a *nix box?
I occasionally lose my remote SSH connection to my VPS. I use for long-running processes, but am wondering what happens to the processes I had running aside from those run within a session if I lose the connection to the box. When I re-establish a connection to the box, what happened to the bash an…
Mac OS can't connect to SMB shares after sleep
I used to access my local Windows 2008 file server's SMB shares on my recent (3 weeks old) MacBook Pro without problems. However, for a few days now, it fails to (re-)connect to the server after it woke up from sleep mode. Finder just shows "connecting..." and hangs indefinitely. The same thing hap…