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Will Mac RAM work on a PC?
I have some Mac RAM at school that is not being used. It has never been opened before, and one of the PC's needs a little extra. Will putting Mac RAM in be an issue? The RAM also is not labelled, how can I tell the speeds of it?
How to make a virtualbox image of running windows system
Is it possible to do this so that the image is transferred over network connection to some other computer? Or is it even possible to resize the partition on the fly to get rid of unnecessary amount of free space?
How do you edit CSS in IE Developer Tools?
I'm using Internet Explorer's Developer tools to try to debug an issue I'm having with a web page. When I highlight elements the CSS comes up on the right hand side but I don't seem to be able to add new rules or properly edit the existing CSS. Trying to add a "display:block" property to a class, I…
Chrome suggestions sucks. How to fix like firefox?
Possible Duplicate: Search through bookmark in chrome addressbar? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/ is the page what i want to see when i type "buddypress" in chrome. I have it as marked in my bookmarks, i visited page 5+ times etc.. Firefox: Chrome: even i am trying on writing "wordp…
Automatic Resizing in Irfanview
Is there a setting to enable Irfanview to open a large imaze to fit your desktop? It's annoying browsing through an SD card and having to manually resize them so you can see what the photo looks like.
Word 2010: How to reference custom document properties?
Using Word 2010, I've added a custom property to my document, , and I've set the value to . In the document, I hit Ctrl+F9 to insert a reference, and I type . When I go to print preview, the page is blank, and returning to my document, I find my reference is now gone. What is the proper way to inse…
Converting existing PC into a VM with Virtual Box
I'd like to convert my laptop (Windows Vista) into a VirtualBox VM. I think there is a utility for VMWare, but is it possible to do with Virtual Box? Also, do I need another (host) PC to run the conversion process?
Using iTunes to access all your music on a NAS but keeping the library.xml local... Is it possible/how? (Mac OSX))
I've pushed across my whole music collection to my Buffalo Linkstation NAS recently. This is the entire iTunes folder including artwork, music, library.xml, the whole kaboodle... (I have iTunes in consolidation mode to keep everything in one place). Now this is done, I hold down alt and click iTune…
PDF has an extra blank in all words after running through Ghostscript
This PDF was produced by Abbyy Finereader 10: http://ebooks.zeitr.org/from_abbyy.pdf You can copy & paste the first sentence and get this (very good) text result: Der »Bund Deutscher Gymnastik-Schulleiter« wurde am 20. November 1955 anläßlich einer Zusammenkunft der Leiterinnen und Leiter der priva…
Vim :buffers what %a and # mean?
What do and mean in :buffers window?
Forcing %s to escape spaces with plus instead of percent twenty
I'd like to use mc as a search shortcut for metacritic.com from Google Chrome. I set up the following search URL for the shortcut: Unfortunately, when I search for patrician iii as follows Chrome produces this query, which metacritic misinterprets to produce a useless set of unrelated results: Meta…
How to separate number by its decimal point in Excel/Calc?
I've got a number in a spreadsheet like so: When I open this sheet in either LibreOffice Calc or Microsoft Excel, is there a formula function that returns the "whole number", I.e. 28. Also, is there a formula that returns the "decimal part", I.e. ?
Tool to fix video that's out of sync with audio?
I'm looking for (preferably free) software for Windows 7 that will allow me to fix an AVI file that has audio out of sync with the video. I tried with Windows Live Movie Maker and VirtualDub and couldn't find out how to do it (if at all possible) on both of them. If any of those can help me, instru…
How come IE8 does not allow a port number at the end of a URL?
Typing "www.example.com" works fine in IE8, but when I enter "www.example.com:8000" it doesn't work (I know it works for some people). Port 8000 is necessary because I do a lot of web development testing and I run web servers on that port. The error I get reads: Of course, on the same Windows machi…
Force Finder to log in as Guest to a SMB share
I have a QNAP NAS that offers a few SMB shares. As I'm in a trusted environment, my shares are accessible as guest rather than with a combination of username and password. Problem Now, when I click the name of the device in Finder's sidebar, I get the black "Connection failed" bar, with the option …
How can I see a timestamp for when a command was executed using history?
I'd like to check at what time/date a command in bash history was executed. Is this possible?
Is the invisible text bug in bash a bug or a feature?
On every single linux distribution I have used the last 10 years there has been the following inconvenience: You run a program in the terminal using bash. After the program is stopped or interrupted, whatever you type sometimes appears invisible. You can then enter the command "reset" and the scree…
Can't synchronize time, Windows 7
Ok, I finally installed Windows 7, clean install. Time synchronization does not work. Clicking "Update now" gives message: I use time.nist.gov, as I believe that use to be reliable, and works for my XP pc's. Any hints on this? I did edit the Task Scheduler, Microsoft > Windows > Time Synchronizatio…
I have a modern 64-bit CPU. Does my BIOS still operate in 16-bit REAL mode?
Since it is still required to boot, I am wondering, on a x64/AMD64 64-bit system, does the BIOS still use 16-bit instructions? Also does it operate in REAL MODE?
How can I check the video/audio format for a MKV file?
I have a MKV video file. Can you please tell me how I can find out the video/audio codec of that file, and how I can find out if it is 1080p or 1080i? I have a Windows 7 desktop PC. Thank you.