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Wireless Signal Strength
I have a real problem that I've been troubleshooting for a friend that has really left me clueless. My friend recently had a laptop die on him and instead of buying another laptop he had me build him a desktop. Everything was working great when I set it up at my house but once he took it home he be…
Set device for program in PulseAudio?
In computer I have 2 sound devices. When I run some program (let's say Skype) I can (using "pavucontrol" -> "PulseAudio Volume Control") setup so that this application will use given device for playback or recording. But - in the Playback/Recording tabs application is visible only if it is currentl…
Command-line ID3 tag editor that handles all tags
I am looking for a tool to edit tags in MP3s through a script. The files are episodes of several podcasts where the tags are inconsistent between episode: Sometimes the Album or Genre tag is missing for example. The script will run after new episodes are downloaded to modify the tags. I have tried …
What is dirty power?
What is dirty power? I recently saw a question regarding this, and I never really understood what this meant.
ssh command not work in cygwin
the ssh command is work perfect in my cygwin before. but today it is not work. It always show a usgage. but my command is correct. cygwin version is 1.7 Thants
How do I find out which processes are causing the most disk activity?
I am hoping to find a way to do more performance monitoring--specifically, I hope that monitoring disk activity on a per-process basis will help me decide which programs are causing the most trouble (aside from the AV). I'd rather avoid a shotgun approach. For windows XP, is there a process monitor…
Why won't my xmodmap command run on startup/login?
I want to run this command every time I log in (or every time I start up, if that doesn't work): I've tried many things. I put the command in . I put it in a file, marked it and put that file in . I put the script in . I put the commands in . Nothing seems to work. Finally, I put this in my : Both …
Does tar -xvf remove existing files from directory?
I have a tar archive and I want to use . In this tar archive I have a directory tree containing a couple of files. On my solaris 10 system this directory tree already exists and has several files in it. If i unpack the archive is the entire directory tree overwritten or are only the files contained…
What is a two bay NAS device?
I read the Super User 1 Year Anniversary Super Contest post about a contest. And one of the prizes is a two bay NAS device. I don't think I'll make any awesome question or answer but I'm curious to know what is a two bay NAS device.
Windows Address Bar Shortcut?
Is there any shortcut to put focus on taskbar address bar on Windows 7?
Does a tool to view Visio documents on Mac exist?
Is there an open source (or free) application to view (not necessarily edit) MS Vision 2007/2010 documents on a Mac?
Does ReadyBoost really improve performance?
Possible Duplicate: Does Windows ReadyBoost have a meaningful impact on performance? Does using an SD card with ReadyBoost help? Would I notice any difference on a 32-bit netbook with 1 GB of RAM, running Windows 7 Starter? Should I use an 8 GB SD card, or more?
Killing explorer.exe when a process starts and restarting it when a process ends
I have a game which doesn't look perfect as long as is running. Currently the process is to start the game, kill explorer.exe from the task manager then once the game is done restart explorer from the task manager. I was wondering if there was some way to set up the shortcut for the game to do this…
System critical error "Kernel Power" and crash
Recently my Windows 7 x64 machine has been randomly crashing on me. Having recently installed a memory stick, I assumed that it was that, but after resolving that issue (See my question from before) and running multiple tests on the memory without any failure it appears that I have taken care of th…
postgres ident authentication failed
I'm trying to set up django on a fresh Ubuntu VM. I'm following the tutorials along until I get to this: The Ubuntu user "postgres" has had its password set to 123456: Using pdadmin, I connect to the pg instance at localhost, go into Login Roles, right click on the user 'postgres' and set the passw…
Remove the password from Microsoft Access file
I have an mdb file on my computer, but unfortunately I have forgotten my password, so I can not open it now. Is there any way to remove this password or some other way to open this file?
Using backslash to escape characters in cmd.exe (runas command as example)
I see that the caret is the documented escape character. But, I have an example showing that for the double quote character, doesn't work and you have to use Why is that, and where is it documented?
Where should I put my Git repository?
I have an Ubuntu box at home, and I want to have a directory that has all (more or less) my Git repositories. Eventually (when I get some team projects at school this year), I'll want have some of the projects shared. I was thinking of creating a directory in . Is that the best place to put them (i…
reboot vs shutdown -r now for restarting Linux
I normally use to restart my Linux box, but a friend said that I should use instead. Is there any difference? Looking at the man pages tells me something about run levels, but I'm hoping for an answer in simple English that a relatively inexperienced Linux user can understand.
How to write to KDE's OSD or notification from console?
How can I write, from a bash script, to KDE's OSD or notification area? I am using KDE 4.5, and basically what I want is my script to report some stuff when it is run. Since I run the script by a shortcut, I have no console output, but I would like to write to OSD on notification area. I know about…