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2.2 TB limit applies even to eSATA drives? 3TB appears as 746 GB
I have an Icy Dock 3.5" external enclosure with USB 2.0 and eSATA. I have an Intel DG45ID motherboard with USB 2.0 and eSATA ports. In the past I had a 2 TB Seagate drive in the enclosure, and it worked fine via either interface. I just bought a 3 TB Hitachi drive, and it shows up as 746.39 GB! At …
Limit Chrome's bandwidth
For web development purposes, I want to be able to throttle the bandwidth Chrome uses, especially for localhost connections. I know that the add-on "Firefox Throttle" does that in Firefox; is there a way to do the same thing in Chrome, with the web development tools or an extension?
Removing Java from OS X Lion
OS X Lion ships without Java now. Installing it is not very difficult - however, our product relies on Java so we need to test the scenario of not having Java installed. Once I've installed Java, is there any way to uninstall it from Lion?
What are the Requirements for Fullscreen Consoles in Windows 7?
When you try to switch a console to fullscreen in Windows 7, it gives the error This system does not support fullscreen mode. Of note is the part about “this system”, intimating that some systems do support fullscreen consoles. Similarly, if you try to use the API function, it returns error 120: Th…
Where do mounted volumes and thumb drives show up in OSX Lion?
Perhaps I need to load a driver to get Lion to recognize my WD 500 Password USB drive. However, I thought for sure I could load my thumb drives. But they don't appear anywhere on the desktop (that I can see) when I plug them in. Where can I see a list of all drives in Lion?
Using cookies with lynx
lynx -cfg=cfg.file $URL this works with the following contents of the .cfg file: SET_COOKIES:TRUE ACCEPT_ALL_COOKIES:TRUE PERSISTENT_COOKIES:TRUE COOKIE_FILE:cookie.file however, this does not: lynx -cookies=1 -accept_all_cookies=1 -cookie_file=cookie.file $URL if it's going to be of any help - her…
putty 0.61: why do I see "Access Denied" message after I enter my login id?
I use putty to login to my RHEL 5.3 server. I'm prompted to enter my login as "login as" and I enter my login Id. As soon as I press Enter, I see a "Access Denied" message following which I'm prompted with password. I successfully enter password and I'm through -- no problems. I tried the same with…
What's the best lubricant to use on mechanical keyboards?
I just purchased a Filco Ninja Majestouch 2 Tenkeyless mechanical keyboard. Unfortunately, while the keyboard is nice to type on in general, something seems to be wrong with the backspace key -- namely, that it's relatively difficult to press and makes a high pitched squeaking noise when it does ac…
Text cell is displayed with hash characters
In Excel 2007, I see that the content of some cells are displayed as hash characters (###). These cells are formatted as text and their contents are displayed like this if the number of characters are more than 255. Is there any way to fix this?
While renaming, How can I disable Windows 7 highlighting the entire filename when I click'n'drag across part of it?
This is super annoying. If I highlight one word in the long filename, the entire filename gets highlighted (usually 1 millisecond before I tap delete or type something else). I just want Windows to highlight what I'm dragging across and stop second-guessing me. Any tweak to bring back old behavior …
How can I take hundreds of smaller images and create one big tiled image?
I have 251 images that are 128x128 in size; I need to create one big image that includes them all tiled together. The image will be 32128x32128 in size if all goes well (Paint.NET says it will be 3.8GB in size, fun times) I need to do this systematically, with a tool or a script since I might have …
Why are file permissions retained when moving files within the same volume?
Ocassionally, we have the problem that a file has permissions different from the folder where it's in. Now I found out that there's a KB article explaining the reason behind this: By default, an object inherits permissions from its parent object, either at the time of creation or when it is copied …
What is USB root hub?
What is a USB root hub? My computer shows three USB Root Hubs in Device Manager. The first USB root hubs show four ports, the second shows three ports and the third shows eight ports are available. However my computer has a total of eight USB ports. Four ports are at the back of the cabinet and fou…
Windows 7 + Deep Freeze - I'm stuck in an endless reboot loop
I have the following setup: Windows 7 Ultimate Deep Freeze I "thawed" my machine last night and performed a Windows Update. The update is having issues (it gets stuck at 32%, fails, and restarts my machine). When it reboots it attempts it again, and again, and again, etc. (Endless loop). I looked o…
Sending change virtual console command in PuTTY
I'm trying to use PuTTY to change the virtual console on Linux via the usual key commands - Alt + F1 or Ctrl + Alt + F1 etc. However this doesn't work. Switching TTY should be simple and is something I need to be able to do in PuTTY, preferably not via chvt but preferably with keypresses like the a…
How do I get Thunderbird to show the attachments expanded
The latest update to Thunderbird email client shows the attachments under a separate panel. I'd like the panel to display expanded automatically. How do I do that? It doesn't seem to be in the help files or the release notes.
Linux: no space left on device error with 50% free space
After spending a day crushing my head on the desk I would appreciate some help. I'm running a Squid-Proxy on Fedora 14. Even if I try to I'll receive a "no space left on device" error. I've already ran . If I delete a file of say, 1MB, I'm able to store 1MB of data again but no more than that. Of n…
What is VLC's 'building font cache' doing everytime I update the version?
What is VLC's 'building font cache' doing everytime I update the version? It takes forever on my otherwise reasonably fast system. What is it doing?
Windows 7 maximized windows not draggable: how to enable?
On my current Windows 7 install (relatively stock from Lenovo) I cannot click-and-drag on a maximized window and drag it onto my second monitor. On my older computer (another Lenovo laptop w/Win7 -in the same laptop family) I could do this. I'm sure there's some Windows config/registry setting that…
Setting default Emacs window margins
I'm trying to emulate some behavior of the darkroom-mode Emacs mode -- specifically the margins setup. I've figured out one piece of the puzzle -- specifically, to change window margins, I can eval . Which is fine, but I'm noticing that the changes only occur in the current window, and will actuall…