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Problem removing US keyboard layout from input languages
I'm working on English (UK) version of Windows 7, my second input language is Russian. Since installation of Windows I have removed US keyboard layout and set LEFT ALT+SHIFT as input switcher. Everything was fine until now. Recently I noticed that my switch combination does not always work. I opene…
LD_LIBRARY_PATH unset by screen
Running in bash wipes the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I've done some reading and it seems that this is expected behaviour, but I need to get around it. The workaround is adding the LD_LIBRARY_PATH declaration to . In my case, LD_LIBRARY_PATH gets changed a lot between the launch of the shell and when…
How can I combine two files on Windows?
I have created a split file on a Linux system as indicated in this Unix.SE question. However, when I copy that file to a Windows system, I cannot recreate the original file. Using 7-zip gives me an error about it being unable to detect the file as a splitted file, and using copy first-file + second…
Where can I config service startup options in Ubuntu?
I'm not used to using Ubuntu or Debian as a server. I'm more accustomed to Red Hat/Fedora ways and even Gentoo (yikes). Under Red Hat installs, you can often configure most services that start from init using config files in /etc/sysconfig named by the service. Is there and equivalent thing under U…
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.
Why does the task pictogram flashes instead of opening the program?
Sometimes, when I select a click a program on the Windows 7 taskbar it won't appear (it doesn't gain focus and remains behind other open windows), and the icon will flash and turn orange. This happens reasonably frequently, and I've had it happen on two separate Windows installs on different machin…
Understanding CSS for user styling in a browser
I want to make a specific change to the appearance of a specific site in my web browser. This site uses CSS, so I think what I should do is write a user CSS override (please correct me if this is wrong). My browsers are Firefox (for which I think I should write something in ) and Chrome ( ). The sp…
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?
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…
scp exec request failed on channel 0
I am trying to SCP files from one computer to another however I get exec request failed on channel 0". When I use SSH however, I can get to the machine with no problems. I am using the SCP function in Cygwin if that helps. What I found when searching online talked about the ".bashrc" file however t…
Is there a way to refresh Notepad?
Say, for example, that there's one process that's writing to a file. While the process is running, I opened the file in notepad. The process keeps writing to the file. Other than closing and reopening the file, is there any way for me to "refresh" the data that notepad is showing?
Windows 7: How to change the taskbar font size
Windows 7 (Aero) does not offer an option to easily change the taskbar font size. BACKGROUND: I was using the Medium Text size of 125%. (Set via Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display) The problem I found was that many programs, sad to say, Microsoft's included, don't scale or positio…
Running shortcut from command prompt without the .lnk extension (Windows)
I have created a folder (d:\shortcuts), created shortcuts for most applications in this folder and appended the folder path to the Path environment variable. Now all my applications are available from run and command window without messing around with Path. However, I now have to type the name of t…
How do I add a location to my path in Unix?
I am using a default installation of FreeBSD, with the C shell (csh). Suppose I have a command I can run by executing this: , but cannot run by executing . How can I set certain path or something that make runnable everywhere?
How to change subversion working copy UUID?
I've recently updated Subversion repositories from an old 1.2.3 version to 1.6.0 via svnadmin dump/load. The old repositories all used the same UUID (repositories were created using by copying a template repository). I've changed the UUID on a couple of the new repositories via svnadmin setuuid to …
Disable touch pad for mouse button region on new HP pavillion models?
i bought a new hp pavillion dv6 series laptop. the laptop itself is fine but it has the new hp touchpad mouse which i absolutely hate. its such a stupid problem to have with a computer. the left and right mouse buttons are, themselves, part of of the touchpad, meaning that if i tap the buttons with…
Multithreaded Windows FOR batch command
do you know if there is a simple way to run FOR command in batch file on multiple threads? What's the point of having 4 cores if I can't run my tasks in 4 parallel threads? For example, if I am optimizing PNGs with PNGOUT, the command I would use is But this is highly paralellizable task in which t…
Why does my hard drive LED light blink every second?
The light blinks faintly about once a second. It is slowly driving me insane. How do I find out which program is causing this, so I can disable it? Acer 5274 laptop/core i3 Windows 7 Home Premium Hitachi HTS545050B9A300 hard drive
Sharing an external hard drive in Ubuntu using Samba
is where my hard drive is mounted automatically. I created a symlink using: I'm setting up smb.conf like this: Also, in the section I tried adding the following lines: The problem is that when browsing the shared folder in Windows 7, I get a "\\etc\myshare1 is not accessible" error. When pointing t…
How can I get wvdial to run from /etc/network/interfaces
I am using wvdial to connect to a mobile network (I have a usb modem) and it works fine. However, I wanted to automate the connection a bit (currently I am running wvdial every time I want to connect). I was wandering if there is a way to add this network to (in a truly Debian way) to have it conne…