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How to find all shortcuts to a file/application?
On Windows is there a way to find all shortcuts for a given file/application? This is something I hope to eventually execute programmatically.
breadth-first option in the Linux `find' utility?
Is there any breadth-first/depth-first option in the Linux `find' utility?
Search Terminal Output
Using a default terminal and bash, there is no functionality to search the standard output of commands. One can gain such functionality using other tools, like emacs shell or screen, but I am wondering why such a useful feature is missing, I do remember a simple C-F used to work in terminals. Is th…
How Can I tell if the current user is Admin from Windows Command Line
Is there anything I can call from the command line which will tell me if the currently logged in user has a limited account or is an admin?
Possible to back up a VPN connection in Windows 10/11?
I have a VPN connection I would like to "save". In Windows 10. Is this possible, so that when I do a reinstall, I can easily just recreate this vpn connection?
Does OS allocate each process to a separate core?
Ok I know the classic argument for avoiding quad cores. At the application level, most applications haven't been written for multiple cores. Most desktop software doesn't even need parallelization. However, at the OS level, it seems obvious that the OS would divide up processes across the various c…
How to play MP3 files into the microphone input
In a chat session, whenever I want the other person to hear a pre-recorded voice, I need to play it on my speakers and use my microphone to capture it. How can I play MP3 files into the microphone input so that whenever I do a voice chat I could play the MP3 file in such a way that I am speaking th…
Linux copy to fat32 filesystem: invalid argument
When I copy files from an ext3 partition to a fat32 one using cp: I get invalid argument messages for all files with colons and question marks in. Is there any way to get cp to strip out the invalid characters for the target filesystem? edit: I've checked through cp's options again, and unless I'm …
Open massive file on Mac?
I'm looking to open a massive text file on my mac. The file is just over 10Gigs. I won't get into how it was created or what it's use is, since it isn't really relevant to the question. Are there any mac programs which will allow me to open such a massive file, or perhaps break it up into chunks (s…
emacs: How to return to last position after scroll/page up/down?
After issuing or in emacs, is there a quick way to return the point to its previous position (assuming I didn't remember to add it to the mark ring)? Alternatively is there any way (without interfering with the mark ring) to alter the scrolling behaviour so that scrolling up then scrolling down (or…
Can we use Windows 7 Home Premium for work?
I'd like our company to buy me a new laptop, but as I want quadcore i7 720QM, there are a lot of models with Windows 7 Home Premium, and few with Windows 7 Professional. I have looked in the edition comparison table and I can say that I don't need any of the features exclusive to Professional. The …
The colour silver (and computer screens)
My Dad insists the it is possible to make a computer screen go silver, so silver that it turns into a mirror. I have tried to explain about pixels, but he doesn't understand it so how do I explain that a screen is light and you can't just make it shiny as it is emitting light, and well it just does…
Windows 7 Task Scheduler advanced settings unclear
I'm trying to create a task that runs once an hour. The functions in the "Edit Trigger" dialog are unclear and seem to conflict. Under settings, the finest time interval for recurrence is "daily", with "recur every 1 days". Under Advanced Settings, I can set it to repeat task every 1 hour, but the …
How to change the filesystem label on the vfat filesystem located on device /dev/sdb1?
I just followed the instructions from Cyberciti.biz to format my Kingston USB drive. Instead of ext2, I formatted the drive to vfat. I forgot to use the naming option when using (webpage doesn't mention it) and when I try to use I get: Is there a way to rename the file system or do I just have to w…
How can you find out the currently logged in user in the OS X GUI?
Trying to find out if a particular user is logged into the machine, specifically the user using the graphical user interface. Is this possible via command line?
How do you get a shell on a Mac?
I have never used a Mac before. I recently went to an Apple store and tried to open a shell to try it out. But, I was not able to open a shell - no shortcut for it, not right-click-menu entry, nothing. How do you open a shell on a Mac? Does it even have a shell? I was assuming as Mac is a descendan…
Can you do keyboard shortcuts in gedit?
Not sure if I am missing something very obvious here, but it looks like you can't set your own key bindings in gedit. I've looked around on the ubuntu support forums and Googled around, but apart from a very old and down-voted gedit plugin on sourceforge, there is nothing that allow this. Any help …
Saving a file in a CSV type in Excel always removes the BOM
I've been trying to find a reasonable solution/explanation (unsuccessfully) to find out why Excel defaults to removing the BOM when saving a file to the CSV type. Please forgive me if you find this a duplicate of this question. This handles reading CSV files with non-ASCII encoding, but it doesn't …
How can I change how OS X's 'say' command pronounces a word?
OS X's command is useful for some tasks (such as Skype's 'notify me when a contact comes online), but it is pronouncing some names incorrectly. Is there a way to teach to pronounce a word differently? For example, try: The 'ol' sounds like 'ball' rather than 'old'. I'd like to add an exception that…
Remove VIM search highlight
After a search I've done, all the matches for the respective query remain highlighted and it's annoying. This happens even after I close the respective file (normal behavior?). How to I remove this?