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Installing Perforce client on Ubuntu
I am trying to install perforce on my Ubuntu machine, after I untar the file, I get two folders and . Where would be the executable or how do I install it correctly?
Periodically changing wallpaper under GNOME 3?
I use Fedora 15 with GNOME 3 and I'd like my wallpaper to periodically change like it's possible with Windows 7. It would be the best if it could use RSS/Atom or a specified directory. I haven't found any tools in the repository. I guess you can change it with a script and cron, but I'm looking for…
How can I open more than 15 files at once on Windows 7?
How can I open more than fifteen files on Windows 7 at once? I can do fifteen by selecting them and pressing enter, but if I try to select more, enter stops doing anything. All the files are the same type — pictures.
How to find out from which folder a process is running?
In *nix you can use to see which process are running. But if an executable has multiple homonimous files in a device, we can't figure where it was invoked from. This is slightly different from my last question on this subject. How can I know the absolute path of a running process?
How to mount a folder from a Linux machine on another Linux machine?
I want to mount a folder from a Linux machine on another Linux machine. How do I do that? Do I need to update or ? My target is to mount from the other Linux machine. I have Debian 5.1. , that is the IP of the other machine. For example I tried:
GIMP - change color of object preserving feathering
I have an .xcf image and I like to change the color of some objects within it. The objects are mostly one solid color with the edges feathered into transparency. I.e. all pixels in the object are white with most pixels fully opaque and some with transparency. I've tried to change the objects' color…
Prevent window shake from minimizing all other windows
Possible Duplicate: How do I disable Aero Shake in Windows 7? In Windows 7, if you grab a window and shake it back and forth, there is a shortcut to minimize all the windows. I keep doing this by accident so I would like to disable this feature. Is there a way?
How do I pin a remote desktop connection to the taskbar?
If you create a remote desktop .rdp file (with stored credentials etc) and drag it to the taskbar in Windows 7, it doesn't behave as expected when you click it. Clicking the pinned shortcut on the taskbar simply opens the remote desktop dialog box, instead of immediately connecting like a similar s…
How do I get files found by command-line 'find' ordered by modification date in OS X?
Using the Mac OS X Terminal, how do I write a command that orders results by modification date (most recent first)? There are similar questions already, but they refer to GNU and POSIX, but I do not know whether Mac OS X is GNU or POSIX or something else.
What's Popup Text and Popup Background in the command window properties for?
When configuring command window properties in the 'Colors' tab we get - Screen Text Screen Background Popup Text Popup Background Can anyone tell me what the difference is between the 'Screen' and 'Popup' sets of properties? Looking up on the windows documentation all it says is that popup properti…
Can a single-threaded program be made to use multiple cores?
The title says it all: is there a way to get an older program designed to use a single CPU core to use multiple CPU cores?
How to install the latest version of Ruby and Ruby on Rails in Ubuntu?
I installed Ruby with the command , but when I enter in the console, nothing happens. I have to use the command But how do I call it with and not ? And how do I install Rails?
Uninstalling Msi package with MSIEXEC
I need to uninstall a MSI package through command line. So i used: msiexec /x package.msi But this command requires the package.msi to be present in the local machine. I want to uninstall the msi even if the msi file is missing. How can I do that?
Set current working directory on ssh
I am trying to ssh from one machine to another within a Python script (Nautilus script). It works with the following: However I don't like the idea of hardcoding the shell type. Is there a way to set within the ssh command without the need to hardcode the shell type?
When would creating a hard link be useful?
There are basically two main limitations with hard links: Hard links normally require that the link and the file reside in the same file system. Only the superuser can create a hard link to a directory. Thus, symbolic links were introduced to get around the limitations of hard links. So, the questi…
Resume recursive scp transfer (with rsync?)
I was transferring several thousand files each ~1MB via scp and my connection was broken after the first 2k files or so. I wanted to know if there was a way to resume the recursive transfer w/o starting over. Something like The problem is I can't seem to get the syntax correct if it is possible. Ca…
How to use a pipe to edit a file with vi
Lets say I have a file called file.txt. In it is a name of a file that I want to edit with vi. I want to do something like this so that I can edit the file: However, that doesn't work. How can it be done? To clarify things: Here are the contents of file.txt: So I want to somehow send the contents o…
Swap Control and Caps Lock on Windows 7
How can I swap my Control and Caps Lock keys on Windows 7? I've found several options online but all are for previous versions of Windows.
Image formats that support layers
I am relatively new to the concept of layers in image editing software. If I understand correctly, some image/file formats such as Paint.NET's or Photoshop's support layers, but others such as or don't. I was wondering if anybody knows of an image file format that supports layers and that is relati…
How to convert file data to plain hex?
How to easily convert to/from plain machine-readable hexadecimal data (without any paddings/offsets/character view) with or ? I'm tired of digging of some special format strings (and finding out that it suddenly starts wrapping lines after N characters or skip lines) or writing Perl one-liners ever…