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Allowing Remote Connection in IIS on Windows 7
I'm trying to give access to a website in IIS on my Win 7 machine to another person on my network. He's unable to access it. I was wondering if perhaps it was because IIS isn't configured to allow remote connections (I seem to remember having to do this sort of thing on Win XP). I've hunted around …
How to forceably unmount stuck network share in Mac OS X?
Not long ago my Xserve failed (power loss) while an iMac was working with files on a particular network share (called "Work Share"). This volume, "Work Share", is now stuck. It can't be seen in the GUI, you can only detect it using the Terminal. Even after power cycling over the course of several d…
Utility to lock window position & size of windows in Windows 7
Either selectively or globally for windows - is there a way to lock window position and size of windows in Windows 7? I couldn't find anything in Group Policy to disable resizing or moving of windows, so perhaps there is a utility or something in the registry of Windows that disables this?
Do Bluetooth repeaters exist?
We have two Android phones (Vibrants) and a regular land-line at home. We bought a cordless system that has Bluetooth built-in (Panasonic KX-TGA651) so that we can use the cordless phones to answer our cell phones. Everything works well. However, we want to place the cordless base in the kitchen, b…
Is there a way to alias a multi-worded command in Unix?
I am trying to alias the command but in my I can't just do . Is there another way to alias multi-worded commands in Unix?
How do disable Win 7 show desktop feature (when mouse is in the lower right corner)
My Win 7 is installed on my laptop. When I use my mouse I am not always on a flat surface (ie on a couch or something like that) when I let go of my mouse to type it often moves a bit. When it does this it will often end up on the lower right hand corner of the screen. That causes all the windows t…
Can dd-wrt or tomato keep track of GB usage per billing period per device?
I want to be able to track the usage of each device connecting to our router so we can split up the ISP bill by usage. Can dd-wrt or tomato provide the stats I'd need to do this? Update: After a bit of googling I'm aware of a much better answer than the current one. However I suspect there's probab…
How to map Ctrl-p to up arrow using xmodmap?
I did read the grammar section of xmodmap but still couldn't figure out how I could do it.
Removing wlan0mon created by Kismet
I have been playing with the aircrack-ng tools, and also Kismet to see how my networks appear. Kismet creates a monitor interface wlan0mon which it uses for scanning. With airmon-ng I can create and remove monitor interfaces, but I am unable to remove wlan0mon created by kismet. wlan0mon remains re…
What are Windows ACLs?
What are Windows ACLs and why are they important?
Let Firefox automatically accept "authentication required" dialogue
When accessing sites at my work I get various "authentication required" dialogues, i.e. from the intranet proxy server. Firefox does remember the username/password but I have to click the dialogue all the time; sometimes multiple times per site. Is there a way to make Firefox do this all automatica…
UPnP port mapping client for Linux
Is there any client that can request mapping and unmapping ports via UPnP port mapping behind a NAT gateway? I had problem with PortMap. I want this mostly for testing purposes.
Windows App to Keep Num Lock On
Whenever I remote desktop to a machine, it seems NumLock is turned off. I never ever want NumLock off. Is there a windows app which will monitor the numlock state and turn it back on if it is off?
Windows XP + PAE + 6GB RAM: See more than 3.5GB?
Firstly let me say I've seen a number of similar questions on SuperUser, and I don't think this is a duplicate. (Most address 4GB RAM installed. I have 6GB) I have Windows XP 32-bit running on a i7-based Xeon system with 6GB of RAM. I only see 3.5GB of RAM in Windows. Is there any way to squeeze mo…
Has anyone evaluated NuttX RTOS?
While reading Linux User's Journal today, I stumbled across a little blurb about NuttX RTOS. I checked out their website and was fairly impressed with its feature set and its ability to put it in an 8052! I find it interesting that it supports POSIX which is something I have helped worked on for on…
Create Virtualbox image of a physical partition
I've a drive with Fedora and Windows 7 on different partitions with dual boot. Now, while running Fedora, I'd like to suck up the Windows partition and create an image I can run in VirtualBox - how can I do this ?
Is there a simple UNIX command for finding out how many cores I have to work with?
I've got an Ubuntu VM on my Mac. Is there a command I can run in Ubuntu that will tell me how many cores I have to work with? I could do "about this mac" on the host, but I'm not sure how well the multi-core processor would translate to the VM.
Write a PID file manually from Bash script
How could I write a Bash-script that runs a long running program and stores the programs process id in a separate file? I want something like However doing exactly this would execute the after tool has finished. Is there a way to get the process id of the process created?
Find files with non-ASCII characters in filenames in Windows XP
Is there any easy way to find all files in a particular directory that have any non-ASCII (ie. Unicode) characters in the filename? I'm running Windows XP x64 SP2, NTFS filesystem.
irssi grep some pattern on history
I'm new to irssi and I couldn't figure out one feature (or task). I know I can use Page+Up/Down to scroll back and forth on the chat history. I also know I can use /lastlog to dump the whole chat history to console. However, I don't know how to dump the chat history and grep certain pattern. For ex…