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How to remap eject key on MacBook keyboard to "delete"?
I own a first generation MacBook Air and this has bothered me since the beginnings. When I bought this thing, I was sure I'm not going to carry a DVD drive. I don't use it. WiFi has worked pretty well for me so far and in fact, lack of optical drive was the least problem I had with it (the worst wa…
Schedule a job from the Windows command line?
On Linux there is cron job and at job. Is there a way to schedule a job from the command line on Windows? The Task Scheduler GUI is not what I am after. I must modify a script to schedule an event upon a certain condition... so there must be a way to call this from the command line.
Use Google Tasks in Thunderbird?
I'm using the GDataProvider along with Lightning to access my Google Calendar from Thunderbird. However I'd also like to have access to my Google Tasks as well. Does anybody know if this is possible at present? The GDataProvider wiki suggests that they will support this eventually (they've been stu…
Does the Intel i7 offer real improvement over its predecessors?
As the questions title asks, do the new processors from Intel offer real, as in noticeable, improvement over the previous quad core ones? What does the i7 actually offer that is new or is it simply a marketing gimmick?
DVD ripper for Windows
I am looking for a good DVD ripper software for Windows. Looking for something that will easily rip the raw bits DVD to hard drive without any loss of quality. Looking for something that will easily copy the VOB files to a server location for use with the Window Media Center DVD Library feature.
Can I install a laptop 2.5" SATA drive on a desktop without any adapters?
My girlfriend's computer has had the disk so I'm going to reinstall the operating system. However, before I do this I need to get all the data onto another machine. As the laptop won't stay on long enough to do this across the network I'm going to take out the laptop's hard and transplant it. Befor…
How to clean a keyboard
My keyboard is a) full of dust and other particles that are flying around us (hair, skin parts etc) and b) very dirty (keys are not white anymore but dark gray - except on keytops where my fingers are constantly cleaning away the dirt). How should I dust & clean my keyboard?
Electronics Starter Kit
I am currently getting interested in starting experimenting with Electronics, and am searching for some sort of electronics starter kit to get me started. I have look at Arduino's Starter Kit and also BASIC Stamp, but I was wondering if there where any other interesting (or even better) Starter Kit…
How can I have per-window menus in OS X?
On a huge monitor (or multiple monitors) it's quite a round trip (I pack a lunch) to move the mouse pointer from a window near the bottom of the screen all the way up to the top of the monitor to select something from a menu and all the way back down to the window. I know I could move the window cl…
How long will an unused hard drive store its memory?
Possible Duplicate: How much time until an unused hard drive loses its data? I have a broken laptop, and it's the motherboards fault that it can't turn its power on. The laptop has been stored for almost 2 years now and I'm about to get its hard drive (hoping it will still work). Can I still recove…
Mac OSX: Cannot color broken symlinks
On my linux machine, you can tell intact symlinks from broken ones, because broken ones are colored red. I've tried to set this up on my mac by adding some configurations to PSCOLORS in my .bash_profile, but so far nothing has worked. I've managed to get the coloring to tell apart directories, file…
How to auto-save pictures opened in tabs with one click
In Google Chrome, how can I auto-save pictures in all open tabs at once, or with one click? Is this possible? I don't want to lose time for saving all the pictures in their tabs.
rsync Permission denied backing up a remote directory to my local machine
I'm getting the error mentioned in the title. I found this similar question: Run rsync with root permission on remote machine. That doesn't answer my question. I'm the admin on the remote server and I want to use to back up files to my local box. Here's my rsync command: It mostly works. Login is v…
How can I disable the Windows 8 charms bar?
Can someone please tell me how to disable the annoying effect that pops up when you drag cursor to top- or bottom-right corners?
How can I set Bluetooth connection priority for various devices?
How can I set up Bluetooth devices with a set of connection priority rules, so that they connect to the correct device. Ideally, my phone(Android) would prefer connection to car > laptop > PC. My headphones would prefer Laptop > Phone for media stream, Phone > Laptop for phone stream. I expect the …
Accessing a router which isn't a DHCP server
I have a Linksys WRT54GL router with Tomato installed on it. My network configuration requires me to disable the DHCP server on the router. After disabling it, I do not know the IP of the router because it isn't my default gateway anymore. Now it is impossible to change settings (e.g. wireless pass…
How to setup a proxy for Modern UI (aka Metro) Apps in Windows 8?
I have installed Windows 8 on a PC behind a proxy. I had setup the proxy in Internet options and IE works well, but Modern UI (aka Metro) apps instead seem to not be able to exit. Is there any workaround?
How to access a shared drive from the command prompt on OS X
I have a shared drive called "music". It shows up in Finder without problems. How do I access this from the command prompt on a Mac? I can't find it anywhere – is there a way to access it?
Firefox asks for proxy details, but only when accessing facebook
At work, all requests are forwarded to a central load-balancing, caching Squid proxy server. If I try to access Facebook from within Firefox, I get the standard proxy authentication dialog: However, this dialog comes only for facebook & only when accessed from Firefox - any clues as to why this hap…
What does "clocksource tsc unstable" mean?
Whenever I see Linux booting, I see this message: where NNNNNNNN is some very large number which may be positive or negative. What does this message mean? Should I be concerned about this?