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Accept incoming L2TP connections on Windows 7
Windows 2003 can be configured as a VPN server that uses L2TP with a preshared key. Windows 7 can be configured to accept incoming VPN connections, presumably using PPTP. Is there a way to configure Windows 7 to accept incoming L2TP connections? The configuration settings for incoming connections i…
What is Hybrid Sleep in Windows 7?
Is Hybrid Sleep on Windows 7 the same as on Windows Vista? As I understand it so far, it is like sleep, except the content of the RAM is also saved onto the hard drive, so when there is power loss or power outage, the state of the computer is not lost. Will that involve saving all the RAM to the ha…
Is it possible to encrypt home folder on windows 7?
Ubuntu and MaxOS has an ability to encrypt home folder in case laptop is stolen. Is it possible to do same thing on Windows 7? I need to encrypt home folder so it will be encrypted and decrypted runtime using my password, so if laptop is stolen it is no way for a stealer to remove HDD and read / de…
Windows Explorer add-in to give tabbed functionality in Windows 7?
Anyone know of a Windows Explorer add-in to give tabs in Windows 7? Previously a very satisfied user of QTTabBar in XP but this doesn't appear to work.
How to setup a work -> home -> internet http tunneling service
I want to know which program is recommended in order to setup such as scenario, i.e. accessing the Internet from work or other places where traffic is monitored by installing a HTTP tunneling service in a home computer. EDIT: Is it possible to achieve the same by installing a home proxy?
How can I create limits of integration in Word 2007's equation editor?
Specifically, how can I create the limits of integration for the antiderivative of an integral (see freehand circle)?
Bulk convert photos to smaller size?
I have about 500 photos - each about 5MB in size. I'd like to bulk convert them to a smaller size, suitable for email and web-hosting. Tools at my disposal - Windows 7 Powershell 2 A free tool I don't yet know about What's the best option? Update - making this a community wiki - there are so many g…
Mac OS X keyboard shortcut to switch between windows
Possible Duplicate: Switch between windows on mac? In Mac OS X, is it possible to switch between windows using a keyboard shortcut? More specifically I want to switch between windows within the same application. An example is I have multiple Firefox windows open. I want a keyboard shortcut to switc…
Windows SSH Servers?
I was wondering what people use as an SSHd server on Windows? I've decided that I want to be able to log in using SSH on my Windows computers but I don't want to use Linux full-time. What are my options, besides Cygwin (which I know of)? I've looked into some other server software but I don't know …
What is Sysprep? How is it useful?
I have read a lot of posts suggesting to "run " on a system. I have done some looking around, but Microsoft's site is confusing at best. What is the purpose of ? What does do to accomplish its purpose? What are some real-world examples of how is used?
In Windows 7, how to show day name in system tray clock?
Without installing third-party software, how do I display the day in the clock in the lower-right system tray clock in Windows 7. For example: "Tuesday" (in addition to normal time and date display)
Setting or modifying a (system wide) environment variable in cmd.exe
I am looking for a convenient way to add and/or modify and/or delete an environment variable from the command line. Particularly, I find myself at times in situations when I have to add a few variables in cmd.exe. I'd be grateful if someone showed me a non-GUI way to modify (that is: to add a new d…
Installing ubuntu do I really need a boot partition?
I will be installing Ubuntu 9.10. However, when I go to the advanced options for making the partitions. I have decided that I will create a swap file x2 size of RAM / (root) partition. I have read some documents that say you should also create a boot partition (primary partition) for the first part…
Is there any software or hardware which lets you stop, slow down, speed up or even reverse time?
Obviously I'm talking about time in terms of the PC clock rather than real time. We were testing an application we've developed at work by setting the clock forward and back to simulate different scenarios and I started thinking how useful it would be if you could adjust the rate(?) of the system c…
If the only browser in Windows is dead, how to connect to the Internet?
Lets say you are running Windows and there is only one browser installed. What if one day this browser dies, would it be still possible to connect to the Internet somehow (to search for the solution or at least download some file or patch)? In other words, can you work with Internet without a brows…
Fastest way to type in math formulas out of the box?
There is no restriction on platform in the answers, but a few things to keep in mind: Dragging a mouse and clicking on any button is far too slow and should be excluded from any answer. Latex is of course a standard, are there shortcuts designed to speed it up rather than just typing it raw? You ca…
Good OS X Hard Drive Benchmark
What software can provide some insight on the performance of the hard drive in my MacBook Pro? I would be interested in both sequential and random read and write performance. This is in the context of understanding the improved performance of a solid state disk upgrade. Besides things just generall…
Why does remote desktop not work for me by computer name, and only by IP?
I have a computer at work that I can only connect to remotely when using the computer's IP address and not when using the computer's name. I can see my computer name is set up correctly as "JoshPC" (for example), and there don't appear to be any conflicts with other PCs names. What could be going w…
How to remove grayed out unknown login item Snow Leopard
After installing Snow Leopard my map network drive application didn't work any more. No problem, but it left an unknown login item that is grayed out and cannot be removed the normal way (also in administrator mode). Does anybody know how to remove this grayed out unknown login item?
Terminal tab completion
Possible Duplicate: Bash completion for commands in Mac OS I'm just moved from linux to mac, and one of the problems I'm having is that tab completion is only 1 level deep, and I'm not sure how to correct that. Let me explain by example - when I used git on ubuntu, I'll start typing and hit tab, an…