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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
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…
What is the maximum number of IPs that can be assigned to a given computer?
I really need to know this for a linux server, but since it also applies to client OSes, I figured the question should be posed here instead of server fault.
ubuntu input/output error
I'm having a problem with Ubuntu that I'm finding hard to troubleshoot for reasons that will become clear: So I can't see what is going on, and I can't remotely reboot. What can I do to get to the bottom of this? Interestingly: I can cat /var/syslog but not /var/log/messages or several other import…
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…
Can I run a Windows .exe file on Linux?
Related Question: Why won't windows exe's work on Linux? Can a Windows file be run on Linux? If the same architecture is used will it be possible? Like if both programs run on X86 architecture, will it be possible to run a Windows on Linux?
end-of-line, beginning-of-line keys for Terminal.app on Macbook Pro Keyboard
On a Macbook Pro keyboard, how do you go the the end-of-line and beginning-of-line in Terminal.app? Note that Ctrl-a and Ctrl-e on this computer with default configuration does not work. They just echo "^A" and "^E".... Terminal 2.1.1 ; Snow Leopard ; MacBookPro6,2
Download Manager for Mac OS X?
IS there a download manager for Mac OS X that allows me to interrupt and resume large downloads? (I'm trying to download the Apple Developer Tools update, but a 3+ GB file size seldom plays nicely with my internet connection. EDIT: I prefer a free solution if possible. EDIT2: I need it to be able t…
Why is a subst drive usable from a command prompt but not Windows 7 explorer
I have a registry key under The value of the key is More often than not when I boot the computer the subst command appears to only half work. If I open a command prompt I can use t: fine. However if I look in windows explorer T: is not there and if I type it into the address bar I get an error mess…
Stop Chrome from opening pdfs in Google Docs Viewer
Some time ago my Chrome started to open PDFs in Google Docs viewer. I don't really know if I did something to force this behaviour, but I would like to view it as I was before (using Foxit Reader plugin). Every link to a pdf file is replaced by Chrome: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://url.…
How to play movie with subtitles using DLNA server?
Is there possibility to play a movie with subtitles using DLNA server? Or only solution is to hard-code subtitles into a movie?
Change default zoom level of PDF files
When I open few PDF files in Foxit Reader or Adobe Reader 9.3, it is opening in a higher zoom level. So every time I want to zoom in to view the document properly. Is there any way to change the default zoom level? I also tried, Still after saving a copy, the document is opening at the default zoom…
Create an image file of a running Linux system
As I understand it, creating an image of a Linux system makes an exact copy of the OS and any user files/configurations/programs etc. What I would love to do is create an image of my work PC and install it at home on my desktop. Can someone briefly explain the process of creating and installing ima…
What are the differences between Google Chrome and Chromium (especially with respect to privacy)?
What are the differences between Google Chrome and Chromium (especially with respect to privacy)? The Google Chrome Privacy Notice lists the information Google receives when you use Google Chrome. Are these disabled by default in Chromium? I don't want Google to know every letter I type in the addr…
Windows 7 UTF-8 and Unicode
Could someone please explain what has changed in Windows 7 (Pro 64-bit)? Details: Previously I had Windows XP and had some translations files (UTF-8 encoded) in CSV format. I was able to view the fonts in both Notepad and Excel. After upgrading to Windows 7, when I open these files — all I see is s…
Huh? JDK not found? (on Windows 7 64-bit)
I am setting up a development environment for the latest Android 2.3 on a fresh install of Windows 7 64-bit. I first installed the 64-bit JDK 6 (jdk-6u23-windows-x64.exe). Then, I installed 64-bit Eclipse Classic 3.6 (eclipse-SDK-3.6.1-win32-x86_64.zip). Then, I proceed to install the Android SDK S…
Unix: sleep until the specified time
Is there a (semi-)standard Unix command that would sleep until the time specified on its command line? In other words, I am looking for something similar to that would take wakeup time rather than duration. For example: I can code something up but would rather not re-invent the wheel if there's alr…
Stitch multiple PDF's together
I am looking to stitch together multiple PDF's together into one file. Is there a program/way (open source prefered) that can do this for me with little hassle? If you share a program please give reasons why it will work and not just a link.
How is it that during extraction of a zip, I get two files of the same name in the same path?
I'm extracting a zip (self-extracting, but that probably doesn't matter) and for a few files I'm getting a dialog asking me if I want to replace a file that was already extracted with a file that's just about to be extracted. At first glance I didn't understand how a zip could contain the same file…
Syncing bash profile between computers
I have tons of stuff in my .bash_profile. The problem is, I use ~3 computers very frequently, and I'm tired of having to copy paste my prefs everywhere. Two of them run Ubuntu 10.10, and one runs OSX. I was wondering if there was a way to use Dropbox, to share a single prefs file. Like, when bash s…