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How do I minimize idle I/O on Linux to decrease noise?
If I put Linux on my machine, what steps should I take so that it ONLY tries to access the hard drive when I physically work on it. i.e., the grinding sounds are annoying me when I try to fall asleep.
How can I add my picture to my public key using GnuPG?
I've created a key pair using GnuPG. I've read that in addition to multiple identities and email addresses, one can also embed a small image (most usually of the user) to help perhaps with memory recall or to verify visually the identity of a person, say at key-signing parties etc. How do I go abou…
SSH: launch GUI programs on remote screen, not X display
The problem Most people want to connect to a server over ssh with the "-X" option in order to run GUI programs on the remote host using the display of the client. I would like to run GUI programs on the physical monitor attached to the server. Is this possible ? Let me be more specific: My situatio…
How to revert to Windows 7 after installing Windows 8?
I was a little gung-ho with my installation of W8 and installed it on my main PC. How do I revert to W7, keeping programs etc?
Convert batch of Word files to PDFs in Mac OS X
Say I have several Word files in a folder. Is there a way to generate a batch of PDFs from these files?
Reverse history search in bash followed by arrow keys causes cursor to display at the wrong location
I've noticed that many times when I'm reverse-history-searching from the command line via CTRL+r, if I want to edit the command, sometimes the cursor jumps to the wrong position when I press an arrow key or enter CTRL+a or CTRL+e. The specific position it jumps to seems to be an offset equal to the…
How do rsync show/hide filter rules differ from include/exclude?
I'm working on some intense rsync scripts, and I really want to understand the options at my disposal. In general the man page is the best place for information, with dense and precise prose. One notable omission is the description of the and filters. They appear in this table in the section: The o…
Copy Word 2010 outline view to new document
I am writing a lengthy article in Word 2010 and want to share an outline of what I have completed thusfar with a colleague. Because I have carefully applied heading 1, 2, etc. styles I can switch to outline view and see exactly what I want to share. I first looked for just how to print the darn thi…
Bash says file does not exist, but it does
I'm trying to compile the firmware for my linksys WRVS4400N. shows that exist but when it try to run it bash says it does not exist. I can also it, and it is an executable, not a shell script.
how do I convert .iso to .mp4 without mounting with ffmpeg
The problem is - I want to convert .iso with dvd to .mp4 (h264/ac3), but I cannot mount it via mount -o loop, because I'm on a virtual machine that doesn't allow to do that. Googling doesn't help. For now I'm trying to use mencoder for the task, but it's hard for me to convert all the parameters fr…
Cancelled cut and paste, what happens?
I cut and paste an 80GB worth of files and folders. At about 80% I cancelled it. Are some of the files deleted and gone forever? Does the files that were successfully transferred gets deleted? If yes, can I still recover them?
How can I make the sound direction from an application "move" with the window position?
I currently use 3 monitors to efficiëntly use multiple windows and applications at the same time. This works very well for me in general, but I have a problem. Sometimes a specific window, application or other sound source start producing sound and I want to shift my attention to it (e.g. to mute i…
Create an .iso from USB drive
Possible Duplicate: Where do I download Windows 7 (legally from Microsoft)? I have Win 7 on a USB stick, non-iso. How do I get an iso of that?
How do I sync Thunderbird across two computers?
I have a computer (laptop) at work that I have installed Thunderbird on and set all of these rules, created contacts, and updated calendars on. I don't want to have to go through all of that process over again on my desktop at home. Is there a tool/add-on or simple way to accomplish this?
.bashrc loading aliases from different file
I have a .bashrc file, which I want to setup so it reads aliases from an .aliases file and sets them up. Currently I have: But upon login I get: -bash: alias: -fu: not found -bash: alias: $USER": not found -bash: alias: -lart": not found The .aliases file is like this: psu="ps -fu $USER" ll="ls -la…
Number Tabs in Chrome or Firefox
I like to use the Ctrl or Alt + Number shorcut to jump quickly to a specific tab. Problem is: When you have a lot of tabs open it is hard to look at them and quickly know which one is tab number 7. Is there a way (extension possibly) to show a tab's number in its title? This way each tab would have…
How to create registry key of type REG_NONE?
Information on files' associations are stored in and Windows' registry branches (among others). Each entry there can have key which adds programs named in it's values to the list of programs accessible from Open With entry in the context menu. Many of these keys have type. However regedit doesn't a…
Linux: zip greater than 4Gb
I'm getting an error when I try and zip a large file on Linux because it is too large for zip to deal with. Anyone know what commands I can use to get around this? This is the error I'm getting: zip error: Entry too big to split, read, or write (file exceeds Zip's 4GB uncompressed size limit) It is…
Windows 7: Unable to browse to network shares in Explorer, but "map network drive" works fine
I've got a rather interesting problem cropping up on a few machines right now. I've got a bunch of Windows 7 machines networked with a workgroup at home. I used to be able to simply open the "Run" box and type in "\\computername\sharename" to browse the contents of other machines, but recently this…
Using an index to make grep faster?
I find myself grepping the same codebase over and over. While it works great, each command takes about 10 seconds, so I am thinking about ways to make it faster. So can use some sort of index? I understand an index probably won't help for complicated regexps, but I use mostly very simple patters. D…