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What is the "/.vol" directory for?
In Mac OS X, what is the directory for? I noticed that Excel usually reverences files (while investigating in instruments) using a path. Is it a folder for temporary files, or does it contain links to all files in the volume? If so, how can I reference a file via its path?
Web browser memory usage
How come web browsers are so heavy in memory? I have Firefox opened with two tabs, and it takes over 800 MB of RAM, Chrome with four tabs takes over 1.2 GB! I mean, what's up with consuming so much memory?
Can I merge Inbox and Sent Items into one view in Outlook 2007?
Does anyone know if there is a way to merge my Inbox and Sent Items into one view in Outlook 2007? I want a way to manage my email threads in a similar way to how they are managed in Gmail.
How does hostname spoofing/customization work on IRC networks?
I've used IRC for a long time and I've seen people with really unique hostnames. I'm wondering how they are able to have those? My theory is that one sets up a server as part of the efnet/freenode network and somehow masks his real identity behind that custom server. Could someone explain layman's …
How can I convert SVG images to Windows ICO or Mac ICN icons?
I'd like to convert svg icons to windows icons and mac icons. A free option would be the best.
Painlessly convert FLAC to ALAC on Windows?
I'm wondering if anyone has a clean, painless workflow for losslessly transcoding FLAC files to their equivalent ALAC? It's supposed to be a bit-perfect conversion, meaning it shouldn't be very hard, but.... it is. Why would I do this? (Before the OS folks eat me alive) Mainly, because an audio app…
How can I move the start menu / task bar to a secondary display?
I have a netbook using Windows XP, with a secondary monitor attached. Both monitors are configured and working correctly. What I would like to do is move the start menu and the task bar over to the secondary display (monitor number 2). I can't find any obvious means of doing this. Is it possible, i…
How to remove Crash Dump Files under Windows 7
My Windows 7 hard drive suddenly filled up today. After doing some research, I downloaded and ran WinDirStat. This identified that 29% of my hard drive was occupied by Crash Dump Files (*.mdmp). I have had frequent blue screens on the system since I updated to Windows 7. In any case, how can I remo…
What are the Primary colors? RGB or CMY?
Our printer in office uses three Imaging units of Magenta, Cyan and Yellow. I thought the primary colours were Red, Green and Blue?
How can I send an Outlook 2007 email containing a linked image?
I want to send an Outlook email that contains an externally hosted image, but I can find no options in the UI that lets me do this. I want to insert the image's URL somehow, and have it appear as an image in the email (as if I'd inserted a picture from my file system), rather than as a clickable li…
Ubuntu's ls can show unicode characters, but tree cannot, even with tree --charset unicode
Ubuntu 10.04's can show unicode characters, but cannot, even with or . Is there a way to solve it. could interpret the escape characters except won't work ( comes from ) Update: can output unicode (should be in UTF-8) but right now it seems this is the only way -- as a webpage.
What would make a noise in a PC on graphics operations on a passively-cooled system?
I have this system based on the Intel D510MO motherboard, which is basically an Atom D510 (dual-core HT Atom w/built-in GPU), an Intel NM10 chipset, and a Realtek Gigabit LAN controller. It's entirely passively cooled. I noticed almost immediately that there was a kind of very, very soft noise that…
Force downmix to mono on Linux
For personal reasons (I'm hearing impaired) I need my linux machine to produce mono downmixed sound. Downmixed, not just single channel. Is there any possibility to force such behavior in ALSA / PulseAudio server? Hardware mixing (short-circuiting L and R channels with some resistors) is not possib…
Isopropyl okay to use on MacBook screen?
I've always used a mixture of isopropyl alcohol and distilled water to clean my computer screens (50% water and 50% * 70% isopropyl). From what I understand, these are exactly the same ingredients used in most commercial screen cleaners, perhaps even more diluted. I recently used this solution to w…
How can I create bootable DOS usb stick?
I need to use this utility to change one of the parameters of my new WD hard drive: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=609&sid=113&lang=en It has truly unreadable instructions: Extract wdidle3.exe onto a bootable medium (floppy, CD-RW, network drive, etc.). Boot the system with the…
Walk me through the Linux log files (please)
I just tried loading a 2MB file in gedit and it silently died on me. I was wondering if anything might appear in a log file that might help me diagnose this: I checked and found out it segfaulted. While doing this I realised that I don't really know anything about how logging is organised on *nix m…
Is there a keyboard shortcut for 'Open file location' within Windows Search?
Here's what I want to do: Hit Windows. Type in a search for a file. Select the file (arrow keys). Open the file's containing folder without right-clicking (like in Spotlight with Command + Enter).
Why does my (HP Pavilion) notebook have an accelerometer?
I have an HP Pavilion DM3 notebook, running Debian Squeeze GNU/Linux (although I doubt that's relevant to my question). Browsing through the device manager listing, I found an entry for an "ST LIS3LV02DL Accelerometer." What is this actually for? And can I do anything really nifty with it?
Bad Sectors on Hard Drive
I run check disk pretty regularly on my hard drive, and lately it's been saying that I have some bad sectores (66, to be exact). I've run smartctl and HD Tune. Both tell me that I have bad sectors and the drive is in "pre-fail" stage. The drive is only a couple of years old. How worried should I be…
Cloning single disk drive to multiple drives simultaneously
I am looking for a way to clone single disk drive to more than one disk drive at the same time. I have prepared system images on 1TB disks, and it takes almost 2 hours to clone one disk to another, and then it goes up linearly, in order to have, say, 30 disks cloned. Is it possible to clone one dis…