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List all hidden folders/files in Windows (7)?
A long time ago, I remember hiding some really personal files on my computer. Something that nobody could ever find, so I buried them down pretty darn good. Now to my problem, I don't remember where. Do anyone know a way to scan a drive and list all hidden folders and/or files? I know how to view h…
How to identify if a video is 720p or 1080p?
How can I accomplish this under Windows? Can I use VLC to gather this sort of information?
Update git on mac
I can't remember how I installed git a while back....but now it's living in and needs to be updated. I don't care how (pre-compiled or build my own) but what I don't want is another version existing somewhere else. i vaguely remember curl(ing) down the source & compiling it. but not positive. anywa…
Saving a tab separated file in Excel without quotes
I have a tab separated value file that I want to edit in Excel. When Excel saves the file it modifies any column with quotes. It puts quotes around the whole column, and then double any quotes within the content of the column ( -> ). I don't want quotes around my columns and I don't want my quotes …
Emacs font settings not working in new frame
I'm trying to get comfortable with emacs. I installed emacs starter kit. Now I'm trying to customize fonts. In I did . It is working fine untill I do . The new frame gets created with fonts, that were on the system before my customization. How do I override this behaviour to use only fonts I specif…
How to generate a public/private key (UNIX)
Can some one please tell me, for using SSH, why does a host also need to have a public and private key? And how can I generate a public/private key pair for myself?
Word 2007-10 Table of figures missing figures if they are on the same page
I am creating a table of Figures based on image captions I have created. However every time I create the captions some of them are missing in the table even after updating the table. The specific version of Word I was using was 2007 (12.0.6545.5000) SP2 MSO (12.0.6535.5002) However I have upgraded …
What is the closest OneNote Linux alternative?
As in topic; I would especially appreciate notes import from OneNote, some notes sync option and gtk base. Or maybe it is not an overkill to run OneNote on Wine?
TrustedInstaller.exe is eating all CPU; 100%
I have bought an ASUS ux50v for my wife (so pleeeeeaaaase help!), it has a single core cpu and Windows 7 Home Premium installed. I have updated it's os (made a mistake?) and now this TrustedInstaller.exe thing (used by Windows Module Installer or something like that; related to windows update) is s…
Proper way to build from sources
I am logged in as a regular user. Should I use: or or when installing packages. And could someone explain the differences. I want all users to be able to use it.
Cycle through matches in ZSH history-incremental-pattern-search-backward
I recently switched the history search to use since it allows for patterns in the search. Here is how it is setup in my This works great, but I can't figure out how to go to the next match from the search menu. Is there a key bound to do this?
Excel set all column text to one value
I have a problem with Excel. I have added an extra column to my data, and I want to set all the rows of the column equal to the string "Male". Does anyone know how to achieve this?
How to stop Chrome from warning me when opening many tabs?
In Chrome I have a bookmark folder which contains many bookmarks to web-comics. Every day I right click on that folder and select "Open all bookmarks in new window." That makes it very easy to tab through all the comics and then close the window when I'm done reading. The annoying thing is that eve…
Make OS X Terminal commands I type BOLD
I'd like to make commands I've typed (input) into terminal stand out from all the output. For example: imac:~ buster$ chmod -R g-w myfolder imac:~ buster$ cd myfolder imac:myfolder buster$ ls -l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 9 root admin 306 Apr 20 2010 bin drwxr-xr-x 7 root admin 238 Apr 20 2010 include drwx…
SSD on Windows XP
I'm going to get an SSD drive for my computer and install Windows XP on it. I've read online that Windows XP isn't very SSD friendly and there are things you need to do to optimize for an SSD drive. I don't really want to do spend time configuring stuff. Is it really that important?
How to add TextMate to my PATH on Mac?
When you start using TextMate, you are instructed to create an alias for mate='open -a TextMate.app'. But now I am using another program that requires me to add it to the PATH. I'm not sure how to do it though. Can anyone help?
Why is my VNC cursor just a dot?
I am using UltraVNC to connect from my Windows 7 x64 machine to Mac OSX running Vine Server. The cursor I see on the Mac desktop is just a dot rather than a normal cursor. What setting have I missed that will give a familiar arrow cursor?
How to print Acrobat PDF file without the images
I have a image-heavy PDF file and want to print part of it. Is there a way to print it without the images, but preserving the file layout (Save as Text is not an option, because it breaks the layout). I've found one software that can convert it (Coherent PDF), but it is too expensive for a one time…
Converting VHD image to RAW format
I need to convert a VHD file (Hyper-V VM) to the Linux raw format. Is there a tool which can do this which is graphical?
How does Kerberos' preauthentication increase security?
This FAQ entry (and the RFC itself) states that pre-authentication addresses a weakness in initial implementations of Kerberos that made it vulnerable to offline dictionary attacks. The FAQ state: The simplest form of preauthentication is known as PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP. This is simply the current timest…