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Is it possible to perform a HTTP POST from a HTML email?
If I receive an email in any email client be it Outlook, GMail, etc and the email contains a link to a website, is it possible to perform a POST request to the website as opposed to a GET request?
How to do division with bc (bench calculator) and obtain fractional results?
When a fraction is entered into , the result is truncated to an integer. How can this behavior be avoided, such that the output of a division operation is a real number?
Is it possible to retrieve magnet link via transmission-remote?
I'm running torrents on the home server, and I talk to home server via the utility. I'd like to retrieve the magnet link for one of my torrents, however this seems to be impossible, as the doesn't give me the link, and the manual also says nothing. Is there any way to get a magnet link?
Windows page file on multiple hard drives
I cant find any documentation or articles online online for this... how does Windows handle page files on multiple hard drives? Does windows treat them as a concatenation, writing to one till its full then moving to the next? Or does it treat them like a stripe, writing to each one incrementally? D…
Is it safe to store a battery in the freezer?
Of course, assuming you wrap it in a tight plastic bag to avoid humidity. I have a laptop battery at my office that's not currently in use, and also won't be used at least for the next several months. I know that Lithium-ion batteries degrade faster at higher temperatures. And if this image (kindly…
How to select the last inserted text in vim
How to select the last inserted text in vim? For example I want to be able to type a text, exit the insert mode, select what I have just inserted, and change it to uppercase. Note: I do not consider Caps Lock a solution here.
Scripting: what is the easiest to extract a value in a tag of a XML file?
I want to read a pom.xml ('Project Object Model' of Maven) and extract the version information. Here is an example: How can I extract the version '1.0.74-SNAPSHOT' from above? Would love to be able to do so using simple bash scripting sed or awk. Otherwise a simple python is preferred. EDIT Constra…
irssi tries to join #python before sending the identify message
I am starting off with irssi here and have a small setup trying to connect to a few channels on freenode. I have the following in my directive in my and the following is the channels directive Now, when I open irssi, I expect to see all the above channels open and ready. All channels work that way …
My keyboard has no volume control keys; how do I assign shortcuts to control the global sound volume?
My keyboard lacks any "multimedia" keys but I really want to have keyboard shortcuts for the global Volume Up, Volume Down, and Mute actions. What's the easiest way to program custom keyboard shortcuts to trigger these missing keys virtually? I'm not asking about how to work with a particular appli…
How can I run a 32-bit app on 64-bit OSX 10.7.2?
I have an app that only exists a 32bit version. In order to use it, I used to press & together before booting the Mac, so it'll run in 32bit mode. However, some apps (64bit version that installed before) will always crash in this mode.. I happened to see a solution that run 32bit app in 64bit syste…
Is there a way to shift focus on buttons in OS X?
On Windows, I could use Tab to shift focus from button to button, so I could "click" on the desired button without having to use a mouse. It appears that I can't do the same thing on a Mac, or is there a way to do it that I didn't realize?
Linux: refresh menu after having registered .desktop file
I've created a menu item using . Unfortunately, the menu item does not occur immediately on Ubuntu 11.10, but I need to log out and in again. Is there a possibility to force a menu refresh, so it occurs immediately?
Instant reverse HTTP proxy from a Linux command-line
There is a nice trick to instantly serve contents of a current working directory by HTTP locally: This command launches HTTP server at *:8000, serving $PWD contents. I'm looking for something similar, but for setting up a reverse-proxy. Something like this: So that would fetch . Any clues?
Play music in a Skype call
I'd like to be able to play music in a Skype call so everyone can hear it. Here's everything I tried: Setting the microphone device to Stereo Mix. People can hear music but obviously can't hear me since I'm talking through the microphone. Then I got a brilliant idea and made a new Skype account, ra…
Why has my Mac become so slow? (And how do I start to answer that?)
Over the past few months, many things on my MacBook Pro have become unbearably slow. Often application switching or opening a new tab in Chrome will take up to 10 or 15 seconds. Obviously, no one can tell me why my machine is slow based on just that, so this is a pre-question. What should I look in…
What Excel formula can I use to calculate the 2nd Monday of a given month?
What Excel formula can I use to calculate the second Monday of a given month? You can assume I have a cell containing the first day of the month to work with. In the interests of other users, can you please also explain how to alter the formula to get the 1st, 3rd or 4th Monday of the month too, an…
Why is System listening on port 8000?
I noticed by accident today that I have some unknown webserver listening on port 8000. Opening http://localhost:8000 just returns 404, so I don’t get any hint what exactly is listening there. I’ve used to find out, that the process with PID 4 is listening on that port. PID 4 is the System process. …
How to align desktop icons to grid in LXDE/Openbox?
Where is the option or config file to align the desktop icons to a grid in LXDE/Openbox?
How to access hidden or system files in OS X
I need to access files/folders that are not part of this dialog that comes up the "Finder" or whatever its called. Some of these files might be hidden file types. I can get to them via my terminal no problem. However in this case I need to open the file with a text editor so I can copy and paste ev…
How can I get a content-listing of a 7z-archive under Linux?
This answer and this one suggest p7zip to work with 7zip-archives under Linux. I can see option for compressing and decompressing. But how can I get a content-listing of an archive, without decompressing it?