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Rename RDP entries in Jump List
I have some Remote Desktop connections "pinned" to the Remote Desktop icon in my task bar. All of the entries in the "Jump List" are labeled either with the machine's IP address or its hostname. While this is generally sufficient to uniquely identify each system, it would be much better if I could …
Get Windows to treat files with the same extension differently
Multiple programs use the same file extension, but the formats are totally different and incompatible. For instance, I have files on my computer that are in at least 5 different formats (TINA, PSpice, PADS, Protel, and Eagle). Is there a way to get Windows to treat them differently, so that double-…
Why doesn't my batch script run all lines?
I want to create a batch script that will run axis wsdl2java.bat for multiple WSDLs. When I create a batch script with just this code: it would run wsdl2java.bat only once. I guess there is something with wsdl2java.bat batch script itself. Can someone help me figure out what is the root cause of th…
Windows Update website redirecting newly built Windows XP SP3 computers to KB article page (KB2497281)
We built and captured a sysprepped image of a computer that we had installed Windows XP on using the Windows XP SP3 media and have been using it for months without issue. Suddenly, some time this morning, on all computers we build using this image, the Windows Update website (http://windowsupdate.m…
Mounting a remote Windows drive on a local Windows machine
I have access through Remote Desktop Connection to a Windows 7 machine. I believe that Remote Desktop allows me to mount the local drive on the remote machine, but I would like to do the opposite: mount a remote Windows 7 drive on my local Windows machine (running XP in my specific case).
how to totally clear the filesytem's cache on linux?
In a performance test, I want to bypass the influence of cache of linux system (including page cache/inode cache and so on). I have tried O_DIRECT flag, but it's turned out that direct I/O is still "enjoy" the effect of some cache. Is there a thorough way to close the effect of system cache?
What does "the following disks have mounted partitions" mean while installing Ubuntu?
I am attempting to install Ubuntu on my machine since windows is messed up. I get this message and I am unsure how to proceed. I need some advice. Message: In layman terms what does that mean? I do not want to mess up anything on the hard drive or the system by installing Ubuntu. What should I do?
Automatically restart application when closes
I have a server application that I want to be running whenever the computer is running and usually this is the case, except sometimes I'll find it to have closed by itself. Is there a bat or script I can run to monitor the application and restart it should it close?
I can't clear the terminal in Mac OS X Lion - "terminals database is inaccessible"
UPDATE 3 - Better Solution I kept Google'ing this until I came to a different solution. I ended up downloading the directory from somewhere (I forgot where so I just posted the zip on my website here) and replaced my current working directory with the new stuff. The directory, for me, is located at…
How do streaming videos download works?
I use Firefox and the Video DownloadHelper plugin to download videos from YouTube, etc. How do these plugins and sites automatically obtain download links for these videos?
Unlocking the mouse from full screen game to move it to another screen
I have two screens. mainly I use only one but I want when I'm gaming or something to have skype open on the second screen. this works well, until I want to do something in skype. In both starcraft II and warcraft III the mouse just won't move to the other screen while on the desktop or in non-games…
find and replace command for whole directory
Is there any command in Linux which will find a particular word in all the files in a given directory and the folders below and replace it with a new word?
Running Operating System from memory
Assuming SSD's are extremely prone to faliure how economical would it be to load an OS into main memory and run it from there? I can think I can deal with a few obvious drawbacks (I've survived inside the bounds of a 20gig VM for the last 2 years), but what are the pro's, con's, requirements and co…
Find all files added by a Git user?
In Git, how can I simply find all of the files that were added to a repository by a particular user?
Create Multi-Bootable USB disk for installation Win Xp, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008
Hi I need install Windows Xp, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 from one USB flash stick. I google it and I found some tools such as WinSetupFromUSB but I would like have all type windows on one usb stick. if I use for example WinSetupFromUSB I must have 3 USB stick, one for XP, second for Win 7 an…
Why can't I control the speed of my CPU fan?
I bought a new computer with an ASRock H61M motherboard and XILENCE ICEBREAKER 64 Pro PWM CPU FAN. The problem is that I can't control the speed of the FAN. I tried settings in the BIOS and with SpeedFan as well as with ASRock extreme tuner. After applying the new configuration the fan is still rot…
CHKDSK stop (no response) at stage 2 (verifying indexes)
I am using Windows 7. I was trying to synchronize the folder. Then the FreeFileSync freeze. I think there is some problem to my folder. Then I tried to copy the folder to another location. When calculating the size, the copying dialog freeze. So I suspect there is something wrong with the NTFS file…
Why does Chrome ask for my GNOME keyring (Seahorse) password?
I use Google Chrome 12.0 (google-chrome-stable) and Seahorse on Ubuntu 10.10 (I know Seahorse is not the GNOME keyring, but it might be easier for others to search). Always when I start Chrome I get a prompt for my keyring password. It seems like Chrome doesn't save anything in it. So, why does Chr…
Installing MySQL without root access
I am trying to install MySQL without root permissions. I ran through the following steps: Download MySQL Community Server 5.5.8 Linux - Generic Compressed TAR Archive Unpack it, for example to: Create a file in your home directory. The file contents should be: Go to the directory and execute: Your …
Is there gitg for windows?
I have googled but it seems Gitg doesn't have a Win32 port. Isn't that gitg is a Gtk application? I feel like it would not be too hard to compile and run it under win32.