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How does a trial version know it has been installed before?
How does a trial version determine that is has been installed before, to prevent users from installing it a second time, just like the products of Adobe do? I'm using Mac OS X Lion.
How to use gpg and SSH together?
Possible Duplicate: Are GPG and SSH keys interchangable? How to use gpg and SSH together? I know the basic procedures of 1) using gpg to encrypt and decrypt text files and 2) generating and using SSH keys to access remote servers without passwords. I wonder if the two can be integrated. Are the two…
Ethernet port not showing up in ifconfig
I asked this question on ubuntuforums.org, but haven't gotten any responses. I am new to Ubuntu, and am having trouble getting my onboard ethernet port working on a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 Server 32-bit. I have searched on Google, but was unable to find the answer to my problem. The motherboa…
Mac OS X "hosts" file, can I include other files with it?
I am working on some automation scripts to configure my network settings, hosts file contents, and /etc/resolver files, when accessing different networks I frequent between. There are some combinations that can occur that all require changes to the hosts file, and I'd like to avoid having to set up…
SQL Developer Error Messages: "Enter the full pathname for java.exe" and "Cannot find a J2SE SDK installed at path"
Yesterday, I downloaded SQL Developer 3 with SDK and was able to use it just fine. After shutting down my PC last night and booting it up again this morning, every time I try to run it, I get this message: "Enter the full pathname for java.exe" I browse to where the EXE is located and I get this me…
history-search-backward working differently in zsh than in bash
I have mapped as PageUp. When I type: in Bash it begins to cycle through all history entries beginning with git push in Zsh it begins to cycle through all history entries beginning with git so it will list entries such , etc. This is not what I want. How can I have zsh behave like bash? What should…
Does an antivirus also scan for viruses targetting other OSes other than the one it runs on?
Today my company has some external support personnels coming over and 1 of them bought a thumb drive containing the files for the fix to the driver problems. The IT manager of my company requested for the thumb drive and ran it through 1 of the Windows computer's antivirus, before clearing them to …
How does one enable --write-mostly with Linux RAID?
Unfortunately the and man pages are not quite up to par. I would like to enable the flag for my RAID, but neither the man pages nor the internet will tell me how. I am not aware of any place to put default arguments for , nor aware of when it would be launched and by what. It seems the logical plac…
Resize a VM hard-drive (virtualbox)
Is there a way to resize a VM hard drive? I am using virtualbox and I have a VM that has run out of space, looked into the settings but it seems I may have to create another partition. I thought there might be an easier way, anyone have an idea? Thanks
Hiragana console font for GNU/Linux?
This guide doesn't give the information I need, saying only: Please be aware that japanese is not possible on purely console mode, unless you have an advanced text mode AND a special software. Surely I don't need to create my own custom consolefont to show hiragana on the Linux console?! Or do I?
Do S.M.A.R.T. requests wear off the harddrive?
In a german ubuntu guide for the hddtemp program is claimed that every S.M.A.R.T. request wakes up the drive although no data is read. Because some harddrives that can park their head into a parking position can do so only a certain number of times and will wear off earlier. I never heard or read a…
How to see which application is intercepting certain key combinations?
Yesterday, I noticed that "Alt+R" wasn't working. Anywhere. Other key combinations with Alt were working normally. So I fired up Eclipse, went to keyboard shortcut settings and saw that I can't map "Alt+R" to anything. From these findings it was obvious that something, somewhere has globally regist…
Why don't I need to format and partition a CD or DVD before writing files to it?
Every time that I need to use a Flash USB drive, SD card or a HDD I must format it and create a partition before using it, such as NTFS, FAT, FAT32, etc. So this makes me raise some doubts: Why don't I need to do the same with CDs and DVDs? Operating systems usually do it before burning media witho…
Why would an EFI "BIOS" update break the EFI boot manager?
After successfully updating my P8H67-m pro with the latest "bios" version I ended up with a blinking cursor on the top left corner of a black screen. No errors, no nothing. The bios now only listed a boot option in place of the usual UEFI one. I'm using a GPT partitioning scheme. While I don't see …
Timezone issue with cron
My cron jobs are computed one hour later compared to server time. I don't understand what is going on. My configuration is the following : Server time : In /etc/default/cron I added the following line : Despite that, cron job are launched one hour later than server time. What is really tricky, is t…
Restore work space after reboot?
Is there a way to reboot windows 7 with the option of saving the current working session and restoring it after reboot? So after reboot, my browser is automatically launched without losing any tabs, Word automatically brings me up to the current doc I am working on, etc.
Increasing margins of all pages in a pdf file
I need to increase the top and bottom margins of all the pages in a pdf file, or alternatively increase the size of each page so as to add a little white space at the top and the bottom. How can I do this? The pdf is not cropped so it is not a matter of decreasing the crop. I have Adobe Acrobat Pro…
How to synchronize clocks for computers that are not online?
I have some computers that run Windows 7 embedded and are connected to each other by a switch, but are not connected to a larger network or the internet. After a few weeks, the clocks drift and it is difficult to figure out what is going on in the logs between them. Is there a way to keep the clock…
How to install Uniconvertor (command-line app) on Mac OS 10.7.2 (Lion)?
Uniconvertor is a command-line tool that shares code with the sK1 Project. it's used to convert from one type of vector graphic file to another like this: I'm looking for a step by step solution to install this tool on my laptop. A similar question posted on the Uniconvertor Forum back in August is…
Is it possible to reset the sequence of indices that vim uses for file buffers?
As I open up new files inside vim, the buffer index seems to skip over arbitrary indices. I switch between buffers using , so it helps to have sequential indices for sanity/OCD sake. After a while, I just exit vim and load up the files I'm currently working on via CL and it orders them sequentially…