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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.
Changing Windows 7 default user on bootup
Since I installed ShrewSoft VPN it defaults to the user when I boot up instead of my local user. I'm not a fan of this since it's only rarely used and I would like for my admin account to be the default user. Is there a setting or registry setting I can modify to put my local admin account back as …
How do I individually mute audio per tab in Chrome or Firefox?
Is there a way (in Chrome/Firefox) to individually mute audio per page/tab? This would be great when listening to music while browsing sites that play audio without asking for user prompt first.
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 …
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…
How do interpret the output of 'service --status-all'
The man page of the service command lists the --status-all option so that you can check the status of all running services. However when I run the command the first column can contain -, ? or + e.g. Is there some place where I can find out the significance of the first column ? I'm running ubuntu 1…
Window manager which allows multiple active windows/multiple input devices?
I have a huge desktop, with multiple monitors, and one pretty good computer. I also have multiple mice and keyboards laying around. Now I would really like to make use of all the hardware. Say a friend comes over and wants to code simultaneously with me on one computer. I would like to give him his…
Completely cutting silence out of an audio file
I record lecture notes, and they contain giant pauses filled with white noise. Is there some way I can get rid of those passages completely? Using Audacity, I can reduce the white noise (i.e. turn it into silence), but what I'd like to do is crop those bits out from the file so I don't have to play…
Editing a huge file - Vim or something else?
I am Vim fan for most of my editing purposes. But these days when I have to open huge file ~1-2 gigs, its is vert slow to load and perform operations What are the other ways I can edit such huge files efficiently
Batch delete: Access is denied
I'm having issues with the command in a batch file. When it gets to the delete step I get the message "Access is denied". My batch command looks something like this. I can browse to the directory and delete the files without any problem in Windows Explorer. I tried running as administrator, but sti…
An equivalent of ssh port-tunneling for Windows servers?
my home is Linux servers where SSH can always be used to get around a slightly-too-restrictive firewall. At work however, all of the servers we deal with are Windows based. I'm needing to connect to a SQL Server 2000 instance running on a Windows 2008 server. The server is behind a firewall that ap…
What is the typical real use case or application of symbolic/hard links in Linux?
I understand the link concept in Linux, hard or soft. Can someone please tell me the real use case? Why do we need to keep multiple references to the same file? Isn't their management a problem? If someone by mistake copies a reference instead of making a new reference of the original, I think it c…
How can I disable 'natural breaks' in Workrave?
I've just discovered Workrave, and was trying to use it along the Pomodoro technique (5 min break every 25 min). But the concept of 'natural breaks' of Workrave seems to interfere with what I'm trying to achieve. Workrave tries to guess that I'm doing a natural break if I stop using my mouse and ke…
Why does Word 2010 create such huge PDF files?
I have noticed only now that my Word 2010 (docx) documents that are just a single page long and include a simple WMF vector graphic and a bit of text are almost 1 MB large. The Word document is only 50 kB and a PDF file created with Bullzip PDF printer is about the same size. So what is Microsoft w…
vi / vim abrumpt buffer movements within window
When using in vi/vim, the contents of an entire wrapped line are placed in the display buffer upon moving the cursor into a new line, even when navigating through a file by display line (gj/gk) as opposed to real line (j/k). For example, if a line is wrapped over 5 screen lines and is currently out…
Going to directory using bash variables doesn't work when directory names have spaces
Let's say I want to store the following command in a variable So I do this That should store the command to navigate to the Program Files directory, so when I type $dir it takes me to that directory. To check that the quotations have been properly escaped, I type which gives me So everything should…
.profile not loaded (osx lion)
after installing mac ports my .profile looks like this: # MacPorts Installer addition on 2011-12-04_at_20:48:26: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts. export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH # Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts. But …
Copy the output of the last command in Terminal.app
would also run the commands again and couldn't be used with interactive commands. This relies on the prompt always being : Does anyone know any better options?
mysql workbench visualization for schema
i have an existing database and have recently downloaded mysql workbench. I was wondering if anyone could walk me through how to navigate the workbench and how to get a visualization of the RDB. I'd like to know how all the tables are related to each other.
How do I browse all shapes in Visio (2010)
I'm not very familiar with the shapes that are available for me to use. Sometimes I'm looking for a shape but I don't know what it would be called so I can't search for it and I don't know which category it would be in. Please tell me there's some "browse all shapes" option that just shows a huge g…