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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…
In GDB, how can I jump directly up to the topmost call stack frame?
I have a C program that seg faults after descending deep into an infinite recursive mess. Backtracing the process in GDB is useless because the call stack frame is at least 1000 frames deep, and the repeated function calls are series of four common recursive function calls (so breakpoints seem usel…
Windows Phone 7 - How to download SMS (text) messages to disk
I need to download some text messages (including date and time and sender information) on my WP7 phone, on to my desktop computer. Is there defined way?
Where can I find the file 'DotfuscatorCE_5.0.2500.msi'?
I'm trying to install the Service Pack 1 update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. However, it cannot locate the file Does anyone know where I can find/download this file? Error message: The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable. Click OK to try again, or enter a…
How to stop numbers converting to date format on copy paste in Excel?
When I copy data from a site and paste in Excel, some numbers / numeric strings are converting to date format. For example: "2-1" converting to "1-Feb". How can I prevent this? I have too many records to do manually. Is there any quick process?
Keep menu bar even in full screen mode?
Is it possible to keep the menu bar on top of everything and not hide when you open a full screen program? I know you can drag your mouse up and it reveals, but I would like it to stay there all the time.
How can I make my Virtualbox Vista see my USB device (iPad)?
I have the latest VirtualBox. I have filters for the iPad. But it does not show up in my virtual Windows vista My Computer screen or virtual iTunes. When I try to right click the little USB icon and select it it says Any help is greatly appreciated Note: running 64bit Windows Vista Virtual on a 64b…
Extracting all the still images from a movie
I have a large number of paper sheets to scan. Instead of an autofeed or flatbed scanner, I'd like to use my photo camera. After a while, it occurred to me that instead of making a photo for each page, I could install the camera on a tripod, set it to record video and then extract the images from t…
In the output of "aptitude update", what do "Ign" and the other codes mean?
When I run from the console, I see output with lines such as this: or this: scrolling by. It's fairly clear that indicates a download, indicates when I've got something already, and that whatever lines are, they can appear even if has no comments, so they're not 'skipping comment' indicators as I'v…
How to know my wireless card has injection enabled?
I am playing around with aircrack. And was trying to see whether my wireless card on my laptop can pass the injection test And I end up seeing the following... does it mean my wireless card is not able to run aircrack?
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?
Piping the output of a program to Preview.app
I'm using an application (the program of the library) that generates a wide variety of file formats including PostScript and PDF. It can send the result to or to a file. I'm currently sending it to a file and opening it with Preview. Is there any way to pipe the output and have it be read by Previe…
Is it possible to run NeXTStep as a virtual machine?
If I could find a copy of NeXT's operating system, NeXTStep, would it be possible to run it in something like Parallels on a Mac? This Wikipedia page says that it ran on Intex x86.
Magical moving desktop icons
I have encountered a very strange behavior in Windows 7 that I cannot seem to identify and I have never seen or heard of on any system configuration. Whenever I move my mouse to the left-most edge of my primary display (centered in 3-display setup), my desktop icons magically move away from the cur…
Can I use faster DDR3 RAM than my motherboard allows?
My motherboard states it supports DDR3 1066/1333. Can I purchase DDR3 1600 and expect my system to drop it down to the highest level the motherboard supports? Will this change the Cas Latency or timing? Is it like a power supply where you should buy the largest possible so it is more efficient?
How can I resolve an internal IP address to a hostname on OS X?
I'm trying to resolve an IP address like 192.168.204.194 to a computer name like "JohnsMac". I want to be able to get the local machine name for an internal IP address I know. What command will return the machine name on OS X?
What do the number suffixes in Linux dynamic libraries mean?
Here's an example: What do the numbers after , such as in the last line, mean? My first guess was that they are version numbers, but: So the does not seem to have any connection to the version of the library, reported to be .
Google Chrome address bar is slow, can't delete URLs with clock icon from history
I can't delete history items or visited webpages from Google Chrome that have the clock icon. I recently visited some websites with very long URLs with about 600,000 characters each. Ever since, typing in my address bar has been very slow after the first few characters, even with auto-prediction tu…
Is it possible to edit a PDF file directly?
I have a PDF file that is produced as part of a help file compilation. There is always late breaking stuff which goes into a text file (e.g. "What's new in this version" type of stuff) and while Help and Manual allows you to include stuff from a text file it only works for the CHM output and not fo…
Insert SVG directly into Microsoft Publisher without converting file format
How can I insert an SVG image into a Microsoft Publisher 2010 document as a vector image without having to first convert it to a bitmap format like PNG? Copying and pasting an SVG file into a Publisher document does not work. I am aware that one can convert an SVG to EPS, and insert that, since Pub…