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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…
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…
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…
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…
How do I associate magnet links with Ktorrent in Firefox?
I'm on Kubuntu, Firefox 3.5.
Copy all files and folders excluding subversion files and folders on OS X
I'm trying to copy all files and folders from one directory to another, but exclude certain files. Specifically, I want to exclude subversion files and folders. However, I'd like a general yet concise solution. I imagine I'll find the need to exclude several types of files in the near future. For e…
Full text Search of browser history, through the browser
Is there a browser that supports searching through the full text of the history pages' content ? Chrome and Firefox supports only searching the titles and URLs (with their omnibars). I'm aware that Google Desktop and the likes are capable of doing that, but if the browser omnibar (or awesomebar or …
Recursive download (`wget -r`) equivalent for Firefox?
I have a website, and I want to download all of the pages/links within that website. I want to do a on this URL. None of the links go "outside" of this specific directory, so I'm not worried about downloading the entire internet. As it turns out, the pages I want are behind the password-protected s…
Do symbolic link files survive SVN?
Let's say I create a symbolic link file inside an SVN managed path, commit the path to SVN, and later checkout the path. Will the symbolic link file survive? If the symbolic link file is made up of a relative path, will it work "everywhere" a checkout is done? Are there gotchas?
Where can I find Google Maps with a geopolitical overlay, as in colored countries?
FOUND IT, at last (as close as it gets) I am looking for Google Maps (or any other interactive map) with a geopolitical overlay of the world (colored countries). I'm not interested in Google API references to roll my own, I'm looking for something that's out there ready to play with. I am basically…
Map "untar" to tar xvfz?
How can I map 'untar' as a command to 'tar -xvfz' ? Sorry, but I almost always forget the arguments necessary to 'tar' for this operation.
What does "(SECURED)" mean in the title of Adobe Reader?
I opened a PDF that I haven't looked at in a while and noticed that in Adobe Reader, the title becomes "filename.txt (SECURED) - Adobe Reader" Can someone tell me what the "(SECURED)" denotes? (Prior to today, FoxIT Reader had been my default PDF program, but due to work-related issues, I had to sw…
A good solution to switch between different network settings?
I use my laptop (Windows Vista Ultimate) to connect to a wireless network in college, which assigns a dynamic IP address, and at home, with a static IP address and DNS server. I'm looking for a good solution/software to switch between college/home settings without changing them manually. I've found…
How do I convert a text file to the EPUB format?
I have a bunch of book length text files I'd really like to read on my EPUB reader (as it happens FBReaderJ). What would be the best route to convert them? I have access to Mac OS X and Linux (Ubuntu). Probably happiest with a command line, but would setting for a GUI for batch conversion. My crite…
How to Reset Windows 7 to its default font for the whole system?
This might sound a little bit silly but please bear with me. Somehow I changed my default display font, the one that Windows uses for system dialog boxes, accept/cancel buttons, pretty much everything in the system (it even goes as far as to change how my the text in my web browser appears). Now ev…
Sort All Files (any depth) within a Folder by Size
I have a folder full of folders and files. I want to sort files by size (so I could remove the largest files). I know how to do that in Windows Explorer, but I can not find a way to do it in Mac OS X Finder. Windows 2003: open folder in Windows Explorer click button leave and text fields empty clic…
Is there a way to truly delete all deleted files?
I know that on the windows operating system, when you delete a file it's still recoverable. I'd like to avoid simply paving the harddrive with zeros as I would like to keep my OS installation as is, but is there a way to truly delete files that have been previously deleted?
How do I measure how much bandwidth Internet Radio hogs?
I was thinking about logging into Pandora at work like I do at home, but I'm concerned about sucking up all of the available bandwidth on the network with something that's not strictly work-related. I don't have a thorough technical understanding of how streaming content like Internet radio is deli…
how to make vim's auto-complete behave like bash's default auto-complete?
When you type :e if there are several matches, vim just picks the first one and you have to cycle through the rest of them with the Tab key. (pretty much like the behavior of the Windows CLI). How do I make it behave like bash where it only completes until there's ambiguity? EDIT: updated question …
Where Are Wireless Passwords Stored on Mac OS X?
After the Snow Leopard update I can't connect to my home wifi router. I removed it from Network Preferences and from Keychain but when I reconnect it will not ask me for the password. All other wireless networks that I had configured previous to the update still work and all other computers work wi…