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What is Kernel Memory? What function does it serve?
While looking at my Task Manager on Windows, I noticed a little thing marked "Kernel Memory." What exactly is this? And what function does it serve compared to the Physical Memory?
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 …
In Word 2010, how can I insert a control that updates a document property when the content is edited?
In Word 2010 you can insert document properties from the Insert ribbon. For example: If you do this a control will be added with the following placeholder text: [Subject] Notice the square brackets around the word Subject. These square brackets are not present in the placeholder text for manually i…
Any tips or tricks to hasten USB device detection and initialisation?
I reattach dozens of USB devices to my Windows 7 across the day, such as printers, flash drives, mice, modems, midi keyboards, and scanners. The computer has seen them all before; all have been set up previously. Yet in most cases, Windows takes 20-60 seconds to finish initialising the device and g…
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.
Which twitter client can synchronize unread tweets?
Right now I'm forced to read all the tweets in a single client on a single device (TweetDeck on my Android phone). If I would switch to another device and/or client, I would need to search for the last unread tweet, which is sometimes complicated (too many tweets). So, the question: Is there a clie…
Passing Log in Credentials with Pushd? other command?
My Scenario: I am running the command to run searches on remote domain computers. However the search performs very slow/or not at all when a user is not logged on to the machine(machine is still powered on.) I was wondering if it is possible to pass log in credentials with the command. If not what …
Baby monitor with netbook and smartphone
We're shopping for a baby monitor, but it seems like a waste to pay $150 for something when we already have both cameras/microphones (netbook with built-in webcam is the most mobile one) and remote devices that we carry around (Android phones). They also seem to vary a lot in quality and there are …
How to stop switchable graphics from switching to high-power GPU when charging the laptop?
I've an Acer laptop with Windows 7 64 bit and an ATI Radeon HD 6550M Graphics card. Whenever I connect the power to charge the battery it automatically switches to the high-power GPU (ATI) instead of the low-power (Intel) GPU. There's an option in the bios to stop such thing but it makes the GPU ru…
Linux equivalent for "start" and "open" on the command line
The Windows command line uses start programname and start filename.ext to process the file as if the user had double-clicked it in the GUI shells we all know and love. MacOS's command line does the same with open. That is useful for those of us who don't know the exact program and location for open…
How can I save my styles' modifications for eternity in LibreOffice?
Every time I modify or create a new style in Libreoffice Text Document it works great while I'm in the document. Yet, every time I go out from Libreoffice and then I go back, all my modifications and new styles are gone. How can I save them so that I may use them as many times as I want, and in as …
How to register a DLL file in Windows 7?
Hey I tried adding a DLL file in Windows 7 by copying to system32 folder, but I couldn't as Access Was Denied. Actually there is an existing DLL file and I'm trying to replace it. How can I do this in Windows 7?
Toggle ClearType (Windows 7)
Is there a tool or something which can quickly enable or disable ClearType without going through the windows 7 ClearType-configuration dialog every time? I need this because I have to make screenshots quite often and screenshots look blurred when ClearType is activated. And when ClearType is disabl…
No sound in Mathematica under Linux
I have a huge set of events in Mathematica that I need to react to, and it's not practical always checking for it, especially since events are randomly distributed in time. So I wanted to add a simple sound to remind me to go check the event. I wanted to use but I get no results, in fact, I didn't …
Is there a `grep`-like utility to match strings instead of lines?
I'm using grep to extract lines that match a regular expression. How to get only the matches and not the whole line?
Prevent vim from clearing the clipboard on exit
If I copy text into the xterm clipboard from vim, it is cleared when I exit vim. How do I prevent this?
sudo chmod -R 777 /
I did this. It was a mistake. Is there any way to undo it? Basically it's messed up more things than I can list. I don't have time-machine enabled on my mac.
How to mirror my display to a remote XServer?
We have got a big screen in our office connected to an old PC, whose only purpose is to display information generated by software such as Munin, Nagios, etc. It is running Debian with Xfce to be able to run on that machine. Still it is a XServer! What I would like to do, is to connect any machine (…
Making sound spectrum images from command line
Most of the audio editors are able to show us different kinds of audio analysis like this: Wave form (whole file); spectral frequency (whole file); spectrum analysis (for a slice). The generated images can be saved one way or another. Is there a command line alternative to do this? Windows 7. A mul…
Set Internet Explorer as the default browser from the command line
Is it possible to set Internet Explorer as the default browser to launch from the command line? I have a web application that only runs under Internet Explorer, but if it happens that Firefox is the default browser, it doesn't work. Users are in a domain environment and even though I try to launch …