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How can I permanently assign drive letters to my USB devices in Windows?
I have several customers with different PCs (Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7). Unlike DOS 6.22, where you can permanently assign drive letter designations (e.g. Drive C: = Hard Disk Bootable Partition, Drive D: = CD Drive, or any additional partitions you want to create with FDISK, dependin…
How to extract RPM from RPM database on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Is there a way to extract an installed RPM from an RPM database on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to reproduce the original file?
Is .NET upgraded as part of Windows Update?
Wikipedia provides short and long lists of the default versions of the .NET framework on various versions of Windows. Are any of these upgraded automatically through Windows Update? I understand that Windows XP does not provide any version of the .NET framework, even in SP3, and that Windows Update…
How can I launch multiple screen sessions from a single bash script?
I've written a script (that doesn't work) that looks something like this: For some reason, if I copy and paste this into a terminal, it creates 7 detached screen sessions as I expect. If I run it from within a script, however, I get only the first session, "somename," when I run . Edit: If the same…
How does a computer know which CD/DVDs to boot from?
What actually happens when a user reboots his or her system with an OS disk (or other bootable disk) in the CD/DVD drive? For example, when I put in my OS installation CD and start the computer up, it says . How this is done on the actual CD/DVD? Because this indicates that when each time CPU is re…
How does Chrome know what language a page is in?
I just opened a web page in Google Chrome, and it says "This page is in Japanese, would you like to translate it?". Asking for a translation would presumably send the contents to Google, but how is the language identified in the first place? Is this done locally, in the browser? Or does this also s…
Creating an OS X PKG file on Linux?
I have Debian / Ubuntu / Xubuntu. I'm trying to distribute and run a Python file with the least number of clicks for the end user. How do I create a PKG file for Mac OS X on Linux? Edit: I think I may have ended up using a rar or a zip file, which has contents that can be ran somewhat like a DMG ca…
How to Create Windows 7 Theme dynamically according to the native computer screen resolution
If you ever pay attention to the default Windows 7 Theme build in, those themes will have a perfect image screen resolution no matter what size of the screen your device is on. It looks perfect on the Netbook, if you switch to a 27' inch monitor it too looks fantastic. The default theme is located …
How to find the IP of a server address using cmd
How do we find the IP of a server address (like is ) using the Windows CMD?
Open hidden configuration files without using Terminal
I made some changes to my which corrupted the Terminal app. I can launch terminal but I no longer get a prompt. I can't show hidden files in order to delete the or files. How do I go about showing hidden files without using the terminal?
Free Chroma key tools
I want to create an educational introductory video, where the tutor stands and explain a subject, and the background is an illustration of that subject. This is done using a technique called Chroma Key, where a blue or green curtain is placed in the video background, and replaced with another image…
TRIM support via dm-crypt/device-mapper
Getting a new laptop with SSD tomorrow. I need to know about the current status of dm-crypt and TRIM. I have seen several conflicting reports and most activity around this question seems to be > 1 year old. Some say that dm-crypt TRIM passthrough has been included in multiple recent kernel versions…
Mac OS X - Problems with file permission into NTFS usb drive
I can read/write files within an NTFS external USB drive. I have some problems with large files like AVI/MKV stored on an NTFS external drive. Those files appears greyed into Finder and, always using Finder, when I "Open With" my video player I receive a strange error: Item “file.avi” is used by Ma…
Adding a SATA 6 Gbit/s PCI Express controller card?
If I add a SATA 6 Gbit/s PCI Express card to my motherboard, will I get similar speed to native SATA ports built into the motherboard? I ask because I have a SATA 6 Gbit/s SSD and my motherboard supports only SATA 3 Gbit/s.
Should I connect two 4-pin EATX12V power plugs?
I have an Asus P8Z68-V Pro motherboard and a Cooler Master Silent Pro 700W PSU. The PSU has two 4-pin connectors and the motherboard has one 8-pin EATX12V connector. It boots fine with only one 4-pin connector plugged into the 8-pin EATX12V connector. I wonder whether I should also plug the other 4…
Change SQLEXPRESS instance name
I installed VS2010 and it automatically installed SQL Server 2008 Express. Now, the installed instance is called SQLEXPRESS, therefore to connect to it I have to use 'localhost\SQLEXPRESS' or '.\SQLEXPRESS' or something like that. I want to rename the instance so I can connect using only my compute…
Chrome browser sending Keep-Alive packets?
I ran Wireshark on my PC and found that my chrome browser was sending LOTS of Keep-alive packets even when there are no sites loaded in the browser, and even when there are no extensions installed!! I don't recognize the IPs that Chrome is trying to contact. Does anyone know what this is all about?…
Expanding globs in xargs
I have a directory like this I want to run some command such as ls on certain types of files in the directory and have the * (glob) expand to all possibilities for the filename. This command does not expand the glob and tries to look for the literal 'file*.txt' How do I write a similar command that…
Is there any way to get a list of the system-wide keyboard shortcuts currently in use?
Is there any way to get a list of the system-wide keyboard shortcuts currently in use, including what programs they are attached to? I have noticed that some are overriding others unexpectedly and a couple are mysteriously tied up with something, on my main computer.
Google translate client for OS X
I'm using Translate Client on Windows. This tool instantly get translation of selected text in any application by double press What are alternatives for Mac OS X? Good implementation would be as in Dictionary (select word + + ) UPDATE: http://www.yuriev.info/translator/translator.zip Article about …