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rsync set group owner, group permission
I want to use rsync to transfer files from my computer to a remote Linux system. Regardless of the local file's group ownership, I want to set these values on the remote side. If I was on the remote Linux system, I could create the directory and set the ownership and permissions as: If I create the…
How can I help a long-nailed person type?
My mom has long nails and she is PROUD of them. Sometimes she needs to do something at the computer. When it concerns typing text, she does that using two pencils holding them in two hands. Or sometimes - one pencil in one hand. This method of typing is very slow and tiresome. So... the question is…
are consumer grade power supplies designed to run 24/7?
I know many of you run machines at home 24/7 (servers, maybe even desktops) that run on standard consumer grade hardware/PSUs. Is this safe? Is there even a remote risk of fire hazard? I'm curious to know what (if any) anecdotes you all have on this matter.
How to avoid the danger of "File -> Save" when "Save As" is needed?
There are situations where I opened up a photo or graphics file, and made 81 modifications to it (crop, adjust color, brightness, contrast, etc, etc), and when I am ok with that file, I use to save the file as a new file. But since File -> Save and Save As are so close to each other, there are time…
Restore single occurrence from recurring appointment?
When you have a recurring appointment in MS Outlook and you delete some occurrences, is it afterwards possible to restore one of it? They don't show up in the recycle bin.
How do I divide one column in gnuplot?
I have gnuplot data file. I would like to plot it, but divide every value in the x-axis by n. Can I do this from within gnuplot, or do I have to rewrite the data file?
Read registry files in Windows "config" directory from a backup?
I have a backup of a computer and I need to get some information from its registry files. I have the files from the registry, but cannot find a tool or anything to let me view this information, just as I would on a machine using regedit. Any ideas? I do not want restore the computer backup - do I h…
Linux, can a home directory be symlinked?
I have a second large storage hdd mounted in Ubuntu in /media/storage. I would like my home directories for me and all future users of the system to be located on this storage drive as well. I was thinking that the easiest way to accomplish this was to move /home to /media/storage/home and then cre…
How to stop the Google Update background tool?
On my Windows Vista PC, there is always an instance of "GoogleUpdate.exe" running. I find this annoying, so I'd like to make sure it doesn't start automatically. This proves to be not so easy, as I have tried these solutions: I disabled the "Google updateservice" service I removed the registry sect…
Is there a way to escape single-quotes in the shell?
E. g. I want to say Is there a less awkward way to do it, e. g. escaping single-quotes? Yes, I know that I can write But this question is about quoting in the shell, not in the Perl. I'm interested how to do it in and in the first place.
Is there a Firefox plugin/extension for doc files?
There are plugins to view PDF files in-browser, without downloading. Is there an equivalent for doc/docx files? I'm on a Mac, although Windows is fine too.
Turning off Chrome's visual effects
Is there any way to turn off the visual effects used by Google Chrome? For example, the tabs slide around smoothly, the scrolling is really smooth, and there is a huge arrow that fades in and out during download. Reason why I'd like to know is primarily because I want to maximize battery life on my…
Is there software that lets me drag windows between two PCs? (there is!)
I'm looking for a preferably free program that is similar to MaxiVista, which lets you extend you desktop to another desktops screen on the same network. But with MaxiVista you have to extend the entire screen. I'd like to just drag one window onto the other computers screen without extending the d…
Rolling desktop recorder?
I want a piece of Windows software that will constantly record what I'm doing on my desktop, discarding footage that's over [30] seconds old. Its recording would be a rolling one. The idea is that I can somehow hit a button and see "what just happened". I don't want to have to babysit it. That is, …
How do I change the color vibrance/saturation with Intel graphics on my laptop?
The nVidia control panel has an option to adjust the saturation and other properties of the image shown on the screen. Is there any way to do this with the Intel Graphics driver? My laptop model is a Lenovo u350.
Resizing pages in Adobe Acrobat Pro
I am using Acrobat Professional 8 to assemble a document from two imported page images (JPGs). Acrobat seems to interpret the images at screen resolution, and creates a document that's about 35" by 46" instead of 8.5" x 11". How can I scale down the page size within Acrobat?
Is there an equivalent of apt-get in Cygwin?
Possible Duplicate: upgrading and installing packages through the cygwin command line? Is there an equivalent of apt-get in Cygwin?
GNU Screen won't inherit my PATH on 10.5.8
I use screen on a daily basis for my terminal needs and I'm quite happy with it. Recently, though, I made some updates to my bash configuration files and I noticed that I was setting various elements ( , , , etc) in 2 places. I modified the files to be what they should be and now all of my environm…
priority of outlook email inbox rules
what if an email correctly hits two rules. for example: Rule 1: Email from my boss goes into Important Rule 2: Email with subject of "Summer" goes into deleted items what if my boss sends me an email with the subject of "Summer" ? what is the ordering of rules?
Why is xcopy returning "invalid number of parameters"?
Under some circumstances, xcopy will return the error without giving you a clue as to what’s going on. The usual solution for this is to be sure that your filenames are enclosed in quotes, as this can be an issue with batch files where you have something like and you really need . I recently ran in…