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Kill process after it's been allowed to run for some time
I want to limit the time a process command is allowed to run or be alive. For example. I want to perform the following: But before running the command I want to limit how long the process is to live, say no longer than 30 seconds. How do I do this? And if it can, how do I return or reset to have no…
How to rsync a large file, with as little CPU and bandwidth expense as possible?
I have a 500 GB file that I plan on backing up remotely. The file changes often. I'll be rsyncing it from a desktop to a server. Both can run rsync client or server. What is the proper command for this? The ones I've tried sofar has been taking forever or simply acted strange. Example and results: …
How to perfectly synchronize Subtitles with movie?
How to perfectly synchronize Subtitles with movie? i use VLC
How to open the upper left context menu via keystroke (for PuTTY on Windows)
Does anybody know a keystroke to open the upper left context menu in Windows operating systems? I'm referring to the one listling: Restore Move Size Minimize Maximize Close In particular I want to restart individual 'inactive' putty sessions without using the mouse by any chance.
Remote desktop - With other user still logged on?
Is it possible to use Windows remote desktop connection to connect to a Windows XP machine with a user already logged in and just view that users screen without logging them off?
openssl certificate generation commands
I am making a self signed certificate using OpenSSL. I want to make the certificate in one go, means that it will not ask me for the input for Company Name, Common Name etc etc. Is there anyway to do this like a switch e.g. or any other through which I can input my all fields in one go. Is it possi…
Determining the encoding of a file on Mac OS X?
How can I determine the character encoding of plain text files (such as HTML) on Mac OS X?
Can I lock (or make uneditable) portions of a word document?
I am looking to make a letterhead for my company. Right now I currently have an image within the header of the document and an image within the footer of the document. Is there any way I can lock these portions of the page so that other users cannot edit the header or footer? Thank you.
How can phpMyAdmin be restarted after /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php is changed?
How can phpMyAdmin (running on Ubuntu 10.04) be restarted after the file was changed?
Windows clients not using NTP server provided via DHCP
I have a network consisting mostly of Windows Vista and 7 clients and an Ubuntu server. The server provides both the DHCP and NTP services through and . In my , the subnet is declared as follows: The clients don't seem to be using the NTP server though. When I capture the network traffic with Wires…
My virtualbox fstab will not auto-mount on reboot?
I am able to mount my drive manually like this (ubuntu): But when I try and add it to my fstab it does not mount when I restart the machine. Is there something wrong with my /etc/fstab line: Do I need something in addition to the vboxsf? Or is there something else I am doing incorrectly?
Sleeping a computer via batch file in Windows 7
I want to make a batch file that will sleep my computer after a period of time. The closest thing I have found is placing it in standby, but seems to work differently than the sleep button on my keyboard (longer bootup, doesn't wake on mouse click). Any ideas? Would it be easier in Python or C#? Th…
How can I make zsh completion behave like Bash completion?
I switched to zsh, but I dislike the completion. If I have 20 files, each with a shared prefix, on pressing tab, zsh will fully complete the first file, then continue going through the list with each press of tab. If I want one near the end, I would have to press tab many times. In bash, this was s…
Xubuntu Aero Snap Hotkeys?
How can I set up my Xubuntu to quickly use a hotkey (super + direction keys) like Aero Snap in Windows 7?
How to use grep to search for multiple options
How can I use grep to search for line with either 'res' or 'rep'? I tried and but neither worked.
Split pages of scanned PDF
I have a scanned PDF (two vertical pages on one horizonatal page). How can I split them to be single pages in Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended?
making a command run once every hour
I have an indexer for sphinx, and i want it to run once every hour in linux. How would i do this?
Using screen, commands like less and man don't clear the screen afterwards
In contrast to this question I want the clearing of the screen re-enabled for . It works fine in my terminal under Cygwin/mintty or Gnome Terminal (both s). However, when inside a session, the clearing of the screen is somehow disabled. I tried several things, like or putting the autonuke statement…
Change keyboard layout while entering start-up password
I installed Windows 7 with the QWERTY keyboard layout, but have recently started using DVORAK layout so I changed it from Control Panel -> Regional and Language Settings and it set DVORAK to default keyboard layout. Recently I added a password to log into the administrator account, the problem is t…
What Linux fits on a floppy disk?
Which Linux distributions fit on a 1.44 MB bootable floppy disk? Where can the .img image files be downloaded?