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What do you do when you print job won't cancel?
I'm trying to cancel a print job in Vista to an HP 3845. I've rebooted, but it's still there, with Status "Deleting - Printing" thought nothing is happening. How can I make it really go away?
$PATH in Vim doesn't match Terminal
I'm using MacVim and when I don't launch it from the Terminal ( ) its $PATH does not include what I have set in my .bash_profile. It only seems to have the default values, . I'm running OS X 10.5.8. Even if I could set it manually in my .vimrc that would be okay, though I would prefer it to pull fr…
What is the performance cost to running BitLocker?
BitLocker encrypts the entire hard drive. I run Visual Studio and build projects much of my day. How much will BitLocker slow me down (dual core laptop with 3 GB of RAM)?
How to Transfer Audio Output from Mac OS X to Ubuntu via a Network?
Is it possible to somehow tap in to sound output and send it via network to another machine. Formats probably are incompatible, but I would appreciate even on some information on how to tap in to audio on Mac OS X!
Multiple independent read/write heads on the same hard drive platter?
Are there any hard drives that exist that have multiple independent read/write heads on the same hard drive platter? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I would expect that doing this would solve a lot of disk contention problems in a situation where multiple things are being read/written in parallel. Par…
Automatic driver search & update on Windows?
I have a Dell laptop issued by my employer, and I always find it a real pain to search for, download and maintain their drivers. It baffles me that there does not seem to be a nice way (product, website, ...) to just download the stuff you need, without hassle. The same goes for the other Windows b…
Combining two ethernet ports
My computer has two gigabit ethernet ports on the motherboard. Is it possible to have the OS (Win XP) combine them and treat as a single 2-gigabit connection? Failing that, is there any general advantage to just have both plugged in to my switch with two separate IP addresses?
Moving users folder on Windows Vista to another partition - bad idea?
I am aware of two questions - one here and one on serverfault which ask HOW to do this. I even provided answers myself, having done it a few months back. But now I'm having second thoughts. My plan was to be able to backup and restore system and user data independently. But I obviously wasn't think…
Monitoring Bandwidth Across Multiple Systems in a Home Network
For the past several years, I have been using a simple software bandwidth monitor on my computer to keep track of my monthly bandwidth usage. It has worked fine (more or less; the numbers are slightly off from my ISP’s online tracker). This works fine for a single computer, but when my mother conne…
Resizing a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox
How can I resize my Virtual Machine, it is only 10GB and I need probably 50GB for this. Is it easy to resize the image?
Generate a PDF from a CHM
I have seen many questions about PDF printers around, and I am already using a PDF printer (Bullzip PDF printer). But I can't use a PDF printer to print entire CHM files to PDF. I am using the default CHM viewer in Windows. All I can do is print an entire topic, or an entire subtopic. Is there some…
Why is MAC-based authentication insecure?
Most wireless routers can use MAC-based authentication as part of their overall security scheme. It seems like a good idea, but I've heard that it is very ineffective, because it's easy to spoof MAC addresses. I believe that it's easy to spoof these addresses, but I don't see how that's a problem. …
Is it possible to limit the memory an application is allowed to use?
I've used tools to effectively reduce the amount of RAM available to all applications, but is there something to do the same on a per application basis? Specifically, I'm looking to limit the memory usage of Firefox 3.5 on an older machine with just 128MB RAM. Currently, Windows 2000 and ancilliari…
Tool to view video/audio file information
What is the best tool to obtain the media/codec details of any video/audio file? I use Windows, but feel free to suggest for your favorite OS too.
How to prevent Flash components from blocking Firefox's keyboard shortcuts?
Whenever a flash code takes control in Firefox, Firefox's keyboard shortcuts stop functioning. Is there a way to fix this?
Ubuntu - How to automount an external drive at a preconfigured mount point?
Normally, when I attach an external USB drive to my Ubuntu system, the filesystem on it are automounted to /media/label. However, I'd like the filesystem to be mounted at a mount point of my choosing. I've added a line like this to my /etc/fstab: This allows me to manually mount the volume at /p by…
Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications in Windows 7
Noticed a thing called Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications in the Turn Windows features on and off dialog under Windows 7. Never seen it before, and it seems interesting. What exactly is it really? What is it for and what could I use it for?
Is there a "save desktop icon arrangement" option in windows?
I normally work on Windows with a 1600x1200 or similar large desktop screen and have my icons laid out just perfectly so. Every now and then I need to hook up to a projector or do a WebEx at 1024x768 or the ungodly 800x600 to do a demo/presentation/online meeting only to find after the meeting when…
Firefox: Avoid splitting images and lines of text when printing
When printing from Firefox (on any OS, I think), the browser splits images and sometimes even lines of text across page breaks -- the top part of an image shows up at the bottom of page n, and the rest appears at the top of page n + 1. Is there any way to get Firefox to keep images on individual pa…
Does using TrueCrypt makes "file shredding" tools obsolete?
On Windows, I frequently use Eraser, to delete securely the files I remove. I've been looking at TrueCrypt recently, and its whole disk encryption. If I encrypt the whole disk, does that make using secure deletion tools moot? I mean, could someone still find what was deleted?