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How to Disable Emoticons in Microsoft Office Communicator
Communicator is the preferred way of dialog between developers in the organization I work in. The program, however, has some screwed up default settings: For instance, when you paste code into a conversation, there are often changes so that code is replaced with emoticons. This is highly annoying, …
How can I setup the openSSH SFTP server on Linux?
I want to configure sftp-server to share a directory but I don't know how to modify . My requirements are: 1) Login shall not use certificates, only password (i.e. authorization uses password method) 2) I want to login with user: ftp, password: foo and share directory /home/ftp. 3) I have an applic…
What is the ASCII (Alt+number) for the square root symbol (√) in Windows?
How do I type the square root symbol (√) in Windows?
Can't change drive letter to previously used drive
I recently upgraded my D: data drive to a larger one, like so: installed the new drive as E: copied all the files from D:\ to E:\ using powered off the PC, removed the D: drive permanently However, I can't change the E: drive back to D: -- that is, when I try to change the letter in Disk Manager th…
How to adjust .mkv files audio volume level?
I have a bunch of .mkv video files which audio is REALLY low volume. How can i adjust the volume higher permanently in the .mkv file? preferrably with lossless methods (if even possible?). Yes, i know i could just turn my speakers full volume, but then again if i watch some other video with normal …
gvim redraw failure
I have a problem with gvim where the screen redraw partially fails. It's hard to explain but when I open a text file and page down or up the entire text file is not redraw properly. I have to move the cursor first before it redraws. I've got a screencapture here of it since it demonstrates the prob…
Is there a way to access OS X location services from the command line?
I'd like to be able to fetch OS X's current estimate of location from the the command-line so that I can script based on it. Is there a tool that does this? I've found apps like locations that let you trigger actions based on location but I haven't found anything that let's you fetch the actual loc…
How to find files that don't belong to a given user
How do I recursively search for all files or directories that do not belong to given user?
How do I move every file in a tree to the root of the tree?
I have a folder (let's call it A) with lots of subfolders B, C, D, E, which then again have subfolders B1, B2, B3, ... C1, C2, C3 ... How can I using cmd move all files from all subfolders into the "root" folder A?
Turn on num lock permanently
I would like to have my num-lock turned on permanently. I never turn it off. But every once in a while it gets turned off. Is there any way to do this in Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10.?
Changing Vim Home Directory
Previously I've been using vim without any problems. However a few months ago our company made some network and security updates. After that whenever I plug a network cable into my laptop, it creates a network shared drive "H" with my company name and when I try to open vim it doesn't load plugins …
Is there a way to repeat the first two rows of a table as a header on each page in Word?
I want to repeat the first two rows of the table as the table header on each page of a Word document. I can repeat the first row by checking "Repeat row as table header" in the Table properties but I don't know how to make the top two rows repeat. Any ideas?
Remote start up a machine that is in the shut down state?
Possible Duplicate: Remotely turning on or rebooting a frozen computer May I know how can one remote start up a machine that is in a shut down state?
"Git GUI" context menu entry for Windows 7 64 bit
Git for Windows doesn't seem to support the extra context menu entries for "Git GUI Here" (or "Git Bash Here") when running on 64-bit systems. Is there some other way I can get an entry for "Git GUI" to show up in the context menu so that it will open the commit interface with the current folder se…
Network drive constantly remaps at startup
I mistakenly mapped my drive in Windows 7 to a useless network share, and for the life of me I can't remove the network drive. It was set to "reconnect at login" and it seems impossible to remove. I've tried all solutions posted at this similar question but none have worked after reboot. I've tried…
How to get HostName from executable script in SSH config file?
I frequently need to ssh into an arbitrary computer from a particular cluster (all machines in the cluster are identical). However, the set of available machines in the cluster changes frequently, so I have a script that returns an arbitrary hostname from the cluster that is available and matches m…
How to connect to a WiFi from command line under Ubuntu without .conf file?
I can connect to my WiFi out of the shell by doing: typing: and doing: Pretty complicated.. Is there a possibility to connect to a WiFI via shell without the need of a wireless-wpa.conf?
How can I see all keypresses on the keyboard?
I've been given a laptop to fix - it is 'randomly scrolling documents'. I'm almost certain it's a faulty connection in the keyboard, causing page-down to fire. Is there a program I can use to monitor all key presses from the keyboard to see if this is the case?
Is there a way to set the default buffer for VLC?
I'm often playing videos from my external hard disk, and, well, it has issues. It'll often spin down and it often takes 5-10 seconds to spin back up in order to keep reading files. This is really terrible for video playback, as it'll often completely hang until the drive spins back up. Is there a w…
Why can't I mount my USB drive on ArchLinux?
I just started running ArchLinux and things were going swimmingly enough until I ran into this problem--I feel like I'm missing something obvious but I'm just not sure what it is. When I try to mount my USB stick, I can't find the device in /dev. Here's the dmesg from when I plug the stick in: Acco…