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How can I emulate key presses on Vim startup?
When I run vim, the NerdTree plugin opens a project explorer. I achieved this by adding the following line to my file: It opens two buffers but unfortunately I need to press each time because the active buffer is the left one, where the NerdTree is located. How can I make vim emulate these key pres…
Installed babylon in Firefox, now I can't get rid of it
While installing Digsby (an IM client) I accidentally installed the Babylon toolbar for Firefox. This was one version of Firefox ago and it didn't go away still (I had 3.5, and installed 4 and it still manifests itself). And yes, I uninstalled the add-on, went to add/remove programs and uninstalled…
Are there any downsides to enabling Hardware Virtualization in the BIOS?
I was wondering if there are any downsides (even theoretical) to enabling Hardware Virtualization in the BIOS. I noticed that it is disabled by default, and perhaps it is that way for a reason although I can't think of a good one. My computer is an Intel-based (i7 QuadCore) HP EliteBook laptop, but…
Disable auto-update of Google Chrome
Google Chrome auto-updates itself and its extensions. I don't want Chrome to automatically update itself every time it is run; I only want it to update when it asks for confirmation, like Firefox does. Is this possible?
Thunderbird creates a folder called INBOX on IMAP
Thunderbird creates a folder called INBOX on the IMAP server, and also a Trash folder inside it. I guess it happened when I modified the settings, to move deleted messages to the Trash folder (on the IMAP server). There is already in a folder called Trash on the server. When I choose I see my IMAP …
"Open"/"Save As" causing programs to crash on Windows 7
This is a problem I was having that I "solved" with a righteous reformat. However, I have no idea what was causing it; hours of Googling led to perhaps one other person with a similar problem, and I frankly didn't know about Superuser at the time. My loss! Anyway, the problem is this: After having …
What do the "ATA/IDE Configuration" options in ASUS motherboard BIOS?
It appears that I'm not the only one with such question, but Googling revealed nothing. For many contemporary ASUS (maybe other manufacturers too?) motherboards there is a setting in BIOS called "ATA/IDE Configuration", which has three options - Disabled, Compatible and Enhanced. If you choose "Enh…
How do I mount a USB in plain XMonad?
Now that I am using XMonad I find that my USB devices no longer automount when I plug them into my computer. How do I get them to automount again just like they did when I was using gnome?
How can I generate Pi to a given number of decimal places from a script?
Does anybody have a script that I could easily run like: where 10000 is the number of generated π (Pi) decimal places.
Windows Mouse Acceleration Curve: SmoothMouseXCurve and SmoothMouseYCurve
What is the format of the data of and in the registry key:
How to back-up and restore site settings in Core FTP Pro?
I'm using Core FTP Pro V2.1. I have set a lot of website FTP credentials on my instance. I'm going to reinstall my Windows, so I'm wondering: how I can back up all those settings and restore them on the newly installed Windows?
Open SQLite db in Microsoft Access?
Are there any tools to allow using sqlite databases from Microsoft Access? Of course full access is preferred, being able to edit records, add tables & fields, etc. but read-only browsing would helpful too. I'm using Access 2007 x64.
Problem with $RANDOM in crontab
I've got a strange problem with $RANDOM in cron. I wish to execute a command a random number of minutes after the cronjob fires. This example works directly in the terminal and delays the command up to 30 seconds (replace command with whatever you want, it's actually an echo to /dev/ttyUSB0): If th…
How to swap ctrl and caps lock using xmodmap
Or any other tool, but I prefer xmodmap. I tried this: I also tried this: But neither seem to fully work. Here's the event log for pressing caps lock: I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 with awesome window manager.
Is there a photoshop filter that limits colors, but better than posterize?
Here's an example of what I want to do. The idea is: the filter looks for areas of adjacent (or even non-adjacent) colors that are very similar (only a few color levels off from each other) and recolors them all to the same color. I guess it could pick that one color by just averaging all the pixel…
Synergy: Is there a way to push Win+L to all screens, not just the server?
When I hit Win+L on either of my machines I'd ideally like to be able to lock both client and server What happens though is no matter which screen I hit the key combination... it locks the server. I'm guessing the OS is trapping the key sequence before it can get passed to the app to manage, so I'm…
Running a persistent IRC client over SSH
I'm looking for advice on how to run a persistent IRC client from a server and allowing me to connect from different computers. I want the IRC client to stay connected, even when I'm bringing my laptop from work to home. I prefer to run the client on my laptop, proxying over the server. Is this pos…
How to save Word documents as HTML to be viewed in Firefox
I'm in need for saving a Word document as HTML. It has some background images, other images, texts, ... It opens correctly in Internet Explorer, but how can I save a word doc as HTML so that Firefox and other current browsers render it correctly? All images are missing in the document. I looked thr…
Fullscreen digital clock for DOS 6.22?
I came across a Dolch L-Pac 586 a few months ago. My boss was going to throw it out, but I managed to convince him to let me give it a home. Since then, I've been wracking my brains, trying to think of a clever use for it. I have been thinking that it would be really awesome to get some sort of ful…
Chrome: Ctrl-K for Google Search, and Ctrl-L for I'm Feeling Lucky
Is there any way to make the Ctrl-K shortcut in Chrome actually do a regular Google search (with the results shown), while still letting the Ctrl-L shortcut do an search? I can't figure out how to make them use different default search engines. (I'm not looking for a way to assign a keyword to a se…