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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?
When does a VirtualBox snapshot actually happen
I spend a lot of my job writing documentation for the installation of software on my employer's servers. Sometimes this is quite complicated, so I do the initial work inside a virtual machine running in VirtualBox, and take snapshots at each successful milestone. Depending on what my machine is up …
How do I amplify the volume of Windows?
In my laptop, some YouTube videos have a too low volume to hear anything. I'm forced to download the video and play it in MPlayer where I can use -softvol to increate the volume. Is there any software that can amplify Windows audio globally? Similar to how -softvol works on MPlayer but for all appl…
how to properly use $1 in an alias with two arguments
i have to compare a number of files and I don't want to change the command in two places all the time. so i want to create an alias in bash. so that i can get just by typing
Is there a way to add a custom favicon to an App Tab?
Since the release of Firefox "5", I've come to really love the new "App Tabs" feature. However, I've now realized that several internal websites at work do not have favicons. So, when I make an App Tab out of these sites, there's only a "blank page" icon in the tab. Perhaps I wouldn't mind so much …
How to reset/restart an internal Macbook trackpad driver?
My Macbook's trackpad occasionally starts behaving erratically but after a system restart it works well again (at least for a while). I'm still looking for a solution to the root problem of the errors. However, for now, is there some way to restart just the trackpad's driver instead of the whole sy…
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 .
What are the LEDs on RJ45 connector for?
I just noticed (in fact a non-technical colleague of mine told me) that there are 2 LEDs on a RJ45 connector. I always thought there was only 1. Could somebody tell me what they're for? I'm pretty sure that the one on the right that flashes all the time indicates traffic but what about the left one…
How can I find out processes are using swap space?
I have a linux server top reports about 9GB of swap used: But I cannot figure where's it use swap, some google results said that top - commad follow by will show swap usage by process. But as shown in the above image, taking a brief sum of the SWAP column shows that > 10GB of swap is used, so where…
Batch real time wait for a file
I have some batch scripts which wait for files. The wait loop is done with the typical IF EXISTS loop: I am looking for a more efficient way of waiting for files. Something like a waitfile.exe command which will block and wait until the file appears. Internally, it should use the FileSystemWatcher …
How can I start a program even before Windows starts itself?
I know that there are a lot of applications (such as that ones which manage partitions like Partition Magic, Partition Logic, Easeus, etc) that start even before Windows starts to load itself (the session manager I mean). These apps load, do their requested job and "pass the token" to Windows again…
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…
Can't type the "b" letter in Python shell in OS X
I have a problem with my "b" letter in Python shell in OS X. I can't type "b", but "B" worked fine. How can I solve this issue?
How do I restart the IIS application pools from command line?
How do I restart the IIS application pools from command line, like I can do from IIS Manager, without restarting IIS itself with and having to wait up to a minute for it to come back online?
How can I manage the download location, by file types, in Chrome?
Although this is partly a question about Chrome (where the problem is), this is more about the extensions (where I hope to find a solution). I recall a plugin for FireFox that would take a given file type (i.e. .jpg) and push it to a [.jpg download] folder, instead of downloading it to the default …
What single nVidia card will drive three monitors?
I'm seeing a lot of conflicting information, on Super User and the web in general, about nVidia cards running three monitors. The opinions I have found so far include: no single nVidia card can run three monitors an nVidia card with a display port can drive three monitors. an nVidia card with an HD…
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…
Remap command key in mac only for emacs
So, this is default my setup now: Mac OSX + Aquamacs So, my command is basically unused in emacs. So, I need to remap control to command (UPDATE: and vice versa) ONLY for emacs, but not for other Mac application. Is it possible?
Windows on a hybrid MBR/GPT
I thought I'd finally relegated Windows to life inside a virtual machine, but alas, I came across some games I'd like to play that just won't do in that setup. In the days since Windows last occupied its own specified chunk of my disk I've done a lot of flipping around with different OSes and Linux…
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…