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How to keep VLC player in minimized mode?
I'm using VLC media player which can play almost all kinds of audio and video formats. While listening to audio, I keep VLC in minimized mode and can work on other windows. But when I select to listen video songs mixing with audio songs, VLC is maximizing itself to play every video song in the play…
System insomnia! Wakes up after 50 seconds after going to sleep
My desktop won't stay asleep. It consistenly wakes back up after approximately 50 seconds. This happens regardless of whether I manually select Sleep from the start menu, or if it goes to sleep on its own. System Specs: Windows 7 64-bit Service Pack 1 (problem also existed prior to service pack) AS…
Making VMware player fullscreen in windows?
How can I make VMware player run the VM in full screen in windows? I'm using VMware Player 4.0.2.
Providing passwords to multiple users on a wi-fi network
I have a wi-fi network that is being used by more than 400 users. Right now they are given access by a single password which the system administrator types on the individual workstations during the initial login. After that each time they try to connect to the wi-fi,they are automatically provided …
Difference between NETBIOS, host name and computer name?
In windows if you go to Computer->Properties->Advanced System Settings->Computer Name, you can change the computer name, let's say from to . This changes the (1) computer name to . It also changes the (2) hostname to when I pop 192.168.1.1 into the url. This also allows me to run the (3) NETBIOS lo…
Keep all the rows of an Microsoft Word 2010 on the same page
It's so frustrating. I KNEW how to do it (select the rows and click "keep with next") but it doesn't work anymore. How do I keep all the lines on the same page, causing the table to move to the next page if there's no space left on the current one?
How can I run my python program directly from the shell?
I wrote a script. When it starts, it won't stop, and it keeps getting data from the Internet. I can call it this way: But I would like to call it directly from the terminal like this, within the destination: How can I do so?
How to get better Skype notifications in Ubuntu?
In Ubuntu, I want to be notified in a customizable way when someone speaks in a Skype conversation (but not in group Chat 'channels'). The problem is: I have lots of windows open, so I often don't notice when a new one appears in the taskbar, or if its icon changes. The built-in Skype notifications…
How do I make Vim beautiful (read: Textmate font/color ) on Mac OS X Lion?
I am just starting to make the Textmate to Vim switch. I love it, but it's so ugly. I'm running Mac OS X Lion and needed Ruby support so I am using Vim 7.3 as installed via Homebrew not the Vim Lion ships with. Then I see Corey Haines doing his fast specs talk and his Vim is... it's just gorgeous. …
Create a recurring appointment in Outlook for the Friday of every month after second Tuesday
I want to create a recurring appointment in Outlook for the Friday of the second Tuesday of each month to schedule server reboots because of Windows updates. Some months the second Friday is not the same week as the second Tuesday. I am not sure if this is even possible to set up within Outlook as …
How do I return a failure value from a bash function?
Background In this posting, the following solution was posted: will invoke a command, if has in its name. However, I normally invoke this command like: Question How do I modify the code above so that it returns a value on failure such that the second part, does not get invoked? Probably returning s…
Is there a music player that will automatically mute when other audio starts playing?
I find myself listening to music while I use my computer, and constantly pausing and un-pausing the music when I watch a video on youtube, open up a game, or any other task that needs audio. Do any music players exist that will automatically mute, or pause, when other audio starts playing on your m…
Confusion with Pem Pass Phrase and Challenge Password
When creating a CSR with openSSL it asks me: After that it asks: I read that pem pass phrase is for encrypting the key file. And any service(like apache) using the key file will ask for pem pass phrase when rebooting the service. Then what is challenge password?
MacBook won't pick up networking on ethernet
First a little network diagram; We have an ADSL router (Standard home broadband Netgear. DHCP, DNS and firewall disabled), connected to a gigabit switch (unmanaged, it just sits there and works). From that switch we have (among other things) a wireless access point, an OS X server running DHCP, DNS…
How do I reconfigure my computer after an OS reinstall?
Every so often I am required to reinstall a standardized image on my job computer (basically a ghosting). When the process is complete I have to reinstall all my non-image software manually (development environments, non-MS browsers, assorted tools and utilities etc). Afterwards I have to manually …
Is it possible to use a server to play games?
I am curious on whether I could slap a high end video card into a server and use it as a high end gaming machine. The server is a HP DL360 G5 with x2 Intel Quad Core Xeon processors, 16 GB of RAM and 6 72 GB SAS drives. The reason I was curious is the server has a 16x PCI slot and I am pretty sure …
Reasons why Dropbox could be accessing files it should not be accessing
I was just using SysInternals to track down a problem and found accesing files outside of the Dropbox folder I have configured. My Dropbox location is at I see the following in a ProcMon log I was studying: Does anyone have an idea why is accessing files outside of the configured Dropbox directroy?…
recovering a broken GNOME-desktop in debian wheezy
an hour ago I had a working gnome-desktop on my debian system (thinkpad x121e). Then I installed compiz that crashed. After a reboot the gnome-desktop no longer started. Then I did some upgrades with aptitude, all gnome-packages seem to be there, but it is still not working. On startup I get a logi…
Download entire album from Google+?
Is there any software that can download all the full-size pictures of a publicly-shared Google+ album?
Windows 7 backup shows two system drives
I am trying to create a system image of my OS drive but Windows it trying to make me backup my storage drive as well showing it as a system drive: I only want to back up my Windows drive (C:) but the option to untick the storage drive (D:) is grayed out. I read in this post that I may have inadvert…