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How to avoid double quotes when saving Excel file as Unicode?
I have an Excel file with Unicode content of which some cells contain text inside double quotes, for example . When I save the Excel file to a text file in Unicode format, the text which contains the double quote is saved as three double quotes, for example . There are some places where I even have…
How to Tell Which Devices are in a PCI Slot
I am trying to figure out what devices are in my desktop computer's PCI slots. I need an open slot for installing a wireless adapter, and I cannot figure out which ones I can take out, and which ones I can't. If there is a sound device in one of the slots, I have no problem with removing it, as I d…
How can I create a symlink which points to another symlink?
Is there any way to create a symbolic link which points to another symbolic link? I have link A (pointing to address1 = ) in /home/data directory and I need to create link B in which is points to link A. If I do , it doesn't work.
Unzip returns "Unsupported compression method 14"
I recently downloaded a large number of GIS data files from a government agency to a file server and need to unzip all of them via the command line. However, is returning "Unsupported compression method 14". What does this mean? How can I extract the files?
Can spilling a liquid on a keyboard or other input device connected to a desktop computer damage the computer itself?
I've heard that spilling liquid on the (wired) keyboard of a desktop computer can cause damage to the motherboard or other parts. Is this possible, or will only the keyboard be damaged? How does this apply to other input devices such as mice, assuming that they are wired?
Will a new processor with slower clockspeed run legacy applications faster?
I'm using Linux and have an old P4 with about 3 GHz clock speed. Will a newer chip that had slower clock speed run my legacy applications faster or slower? I only use one application at a time, an old drawing program (windows app used in wine) that is unable to take advantage of multicore, and have…
Qemu & VNC - how to use absolute pointing device
I'm using QEMU with VNC for display running a Windows XP guest OS. When I connect with a VNC client, the mouse pointer position is pretty badly correlated to where my real mouse pointer is. Is there an absolute pointing device option that can be used with the VNC display interface??
Guest and host cannot see each other using linux-kvm and macvtap
I'm migrating a kvm virtual machine from an old host (both hardware and OS) to a new one. For networking, virt-manager proposed me a new option: macvtap. This looked a good alternative to setting up a bridge on eth0. So now the guest boots just fine, gets an IP from my local network DHCP server, ca…
Win7 - mute sound in mixer for particular application by keyboard shortcut
I was wondering whether there is a way to mute / unmute a particular application in the mixer by a keyboard shortcut. So e.g. by CTRL M W to mute / unmute the sound of Winamp. I am not asking about muting sound in general as in Is there a shortcut to mute sound in Windows 7?, but the sound for a pa…
Creating stereo file from two mono files with sox
I'm using sox 14.2.0 on Centos 6.0. I have two mono wav files, and . I need to combine them into one file, with pan 80% to the left, and pan 80% to the right. I was unable to come up with the sox options needed for this. How do I do this? This is going to be executed repeatably for many files, so I…
Converting images to video using FFMPEG on Windows
I'm trying to convert a series of JPEG images into a time lapse video. They're in the format IMGP0001.JPG, IMGP0002.JPG, etc. From the looks of things, this should match the pattern IMGP%04.JPG. I've tried the following commands (modified from the 2nd entry at this page): I get the error "IMGP%04d.…
In Vim, how can I search for the contents of a register?
Say I've yanked the text "foo" into register . How can I search my file for the contents of that register? I know that I can type to search, then followed by to paste the contents of that register, leaving me with . But I'm trying to use the name of the register instead. For example, I tried , but …
GNU Screen: Can't stuff commands unless the screen is attached?
I have the following script unless I attach the screen first it seems the affects of stuff won't do anything? Why is this and how can I modify this script so I don't need to attach the screen?
Why are some "Use TLS" and "Use SSL" options turned off?
I'm really confused -- why are some of the TLS/SSL options turned off by default? Is there any harm in turning them on or something?
Rescuing a hdd with bad sectors: dd vs gddrescue
Somewhere on the internets I read that gddrescue is superior to dd at least in terms of being able to distinguish between the amount of disk reads performed on a troubled sector. Is this really the case? time dd if=/dev/sda skip=900343967 of=a.bin count=4 iflag=direct conv=noerror,sync dd: reading …
TextPad keeps other windows and apps from being in front or on top
My copy of Textpad on Windows XP has started acting up where it will not let other applications, programs or windows be in front or go on top of it. So if I'm using TextPad and I Alt + Tab to Firefox then TextPad's bar goes dim like it knows its not the "top window" but Firefox isn't placed on top …
How to group bookmarks in Emacs?
I would like to group my bookmarks like buffers with ibuffer or newsgroups with gnus by certain criterias like projects for example. I also tried Bookmark+ but couldn't get anything like this working. Does anyone know a way to achive this?
Determine Linux distribution
I am trying to determine what flavor of linux server is running. I am not trying to determine the kernel version - but rater the distributor. gcc is installed, and in the version output, it says RedHat Does this mean I can safely assume my server is a RedHat server. Is there a better - 100% bulletp…
Python IDLE disappeared from the right click context menu
My IDLE shortcut in the right click menu has disappeared. I think it's because I used to use Python 2.7, but I installed Python 2.5 without uninstalling Python2.7, and then uninstalled Python 2.5. I found one file named , and it works, but that isn't a good way to solve this problem.
SCP recursive file transfer order
Wondering whether it's possible to specify a sort order when transferring files with . For example: Since perhaps this may be related to how functions, is there some way to configure ssh on the source(server)-side so that files are transfered, for example, in ascending filename order?