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How to find out what disk drives are installed in a Ubuntu server
I have remote access (including root access) to a Ubuntu 9 server, but can't inspect it physically or reboot it. I want to find out the manufacturer and model of the hard disks installed in the server and how they are connected (SATA / IDE, which version). Is there a command line way of doing this?…
Why doesn't Hibernate work any more (Windows 7)?
I am having a problem with Hibernating my Windows 7 PC. When ever I try to hibernate, the screen goes blank for a while, there's disk activity and then I am presented with the Login Screen. I've tried enabling/disabling hibernation, not helped. When I run I get a error: "The system cannot find the …
Want Visual Studio 2010 stop using the drive when there's lots of RAM in Windows 7 64 bit
I will be upgrading my system to use 16GB of DDR3 RAM in a Windows 7 64 bit and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. CPU will be 6 cores 3.2Ghz. I do lots of compiles/day and my goal for VS is to show a web page within seconds after making a change in the code behind. I noticed Visual Studio does a lot of …
Parallel shell loops
I want to process many files and since I've here a bunch of cores I want to do it in parallel: I know of a Makefile solution but my commands needs the arguments out of the shell globbing list. What I found is: To use it, all one has to do is put & after the jobs and a pwait call, the parameter give…
Shortest Method To Reference A Single Row/Column of a Named Range in Excel?
I have a named range ( ) and I need to reference the first row and first column of that range within a formula. I came up with the following: First row: First column: This seems cumbersome, especially since the Excel object model exposes and in VBA. Is there a more concise way of expressing this?
Window tiling in Gnome without Compiz?
I really do like the Grid plugin in Compiz, but at work I cannot use Compiz on my workstation (Fedora 12). Is there anything similar for plain X or Metacity? The Grid-plugin gives you a few keyboard shortcuts for tiling active window. For example Ctrl+Alt+Numpad_4 would tile window to half screen.
How can I change the background colour of a single emacs buffer?
I want to make SQL interactive buffers that are connected to production DBs very, very obvious, so my thought was to change the background of the buffer to a dark red colour. doesn't work, though; it sets the colour of all frames to the specified colour. How can I change the background of just a si…
Canadian English on Apple products
Apple is an American company. As many of you probably know, Canadian English is different from American English, and closer to British English (e.g. colour instead of color). I use iWork and Microsoft Office for Mac (along with many other applications on OS X), and OS X, nor my iPhone, have an opti…
Is there an approved way to clear /var/cups/cache on a Unix system?
My CUPS server has bad, obsolete data in /var/cups/cache. I could just blow away all the files, but I'd like to know if there is a "correct" way to clear the CUPS cache. Man pages and Google have not yielded an answer.
Is there a way to forward-delete in insert-mode in vim?
Is there a way to forward-delete in insert-mode in vim? I'm using a MacVim. I tried "Control-D", but it obviously doesn't work. I'm searching the official documentation, but cannot find. Any help would be appreciated.
Display Hex in PuTTY for Serial
Does anyone know if there is a way to get PuTTY to show the hex values of what it's receiving over a serial connection instead of characters?
How can I create a 32-bit remote powershell session (on a 64-bit machine)?
On a local 64-bit machine, I can open 'PowerShell (x86)'. But if I do 'Enter-PSSession' to another machine running a 64-bit OS, it creates a 64-bit PowerShell. In my scenario I need a 32-bit PowerShell session. How can I get one?
Practical tips when transitioning to xmonad?
I like the idea and concept of xmonad, however I still keep going back to after an hour or so. This feels like when I first tried to learn , but I've gotten past the learning curve point and can't live without nowadays. I'm sure the time will come for too, but I was wondering if current xmonad user…
Join videos with split screen
I am looking for a command to join two video files, however I want the videos joined split-screen, frame by frame, instead of one after another. Any ideas? Seems this is not possible with ffmpeg.
Setting an animated .gif as the desktop background on Windows 7
I have an animated .gif I created using Photoshop CS4, but I can't get animation on my desktop although I can set it as a background from the context menu by opening it in Internet Explorer. How can I set an animated .gif as the desktop background on Windows 7?
In Eclipse, can I organze my workspace projects into top-level folders?
My current Project Explorer has: Project A Project B Project C What I'd prefer is to create e.g. Folder 1 Project A Project B Folder 2 Project C And have those folders be the same as what you'd see in the file system, browsing my ./workspace directory. Is this possible? Hopefully yes and I'm just a…
What will happen if I remove the RAM while the computer is on?
What will happen if I remove the RAM while the computer is on?
"Ghost" UI elements
Occasionally, I get part of an application lingering behind on my desktop: This is part of a context menu for an application. It is always top-most, meaning that it is always on the screen, and I cannot click on it (it just clicks through it). It has happened before, sometimes with whole windows. I…
How to display images in draft view in Word 2007
How do I display images in draft view (or at least, some sort of a boundary box) in draft view using Word 2007?
Easy way to access cookies in Chrome
To view specific cookies in Chrome, currently I have to: Go to preferences Click Under the Hood tab Click Content Settings... button Click Cookies tab (if it's not already active) Click Show cookies and other site data... button If I want to narrow this down to a specific domain, I have to type it …