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What's the difference between "Mark for Removal" and "Mark for Complete Removal" in Synaptic Package Manager?
When I right click on a package in Synaptic Package Manager it presents selections for removal and complete removal. What are the differences between these options?
Can't edit a specific document in Word 2007
I have a document in Word 2007 that seems to be read only. There are forms in the document that I can type in, but I can't edit or reformat the rest of the document. There is probably a setting somewhere I can flip to make it editable again but I can't find it for the life of me. FOLLOW UP: The "Pr…
How do I block certain websites from being accessed through a browser?
A friend of mine (who is not a geek) asks me how to stop her little brother from playing web games on her computer. She is currently using Chrome and IE, and I have never done that before, even on FF. I would prefer a solution that is simple and does not require additional applications. Although it…
Is there a LaTeX-like font for my other documents?
Every time I open a document written in LaTeX, I can tell just based on the font. I want to know if there is a Latex-like font out there I can use for my other documents. I realize that latex's way of doing fonts is pretty complicated (and takes into account stuff like kerning and... other font-rel…
Cause of "Session Circular Kernel Context Logger failed to start error in Event Log?
I'm running Windows 7 RTM 32-bit. I'm getting the following error in my event log every second or so: Session "Circular Kernel Context Logger" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000035 Source: Kernel-EventTracing Level: Error User: SYSTEM OpCode: Start Any ideas what would be causing thi…
Software for drawing basic geometry
I'm looking for some software that I can use to draw simple geometric things like this: Or even better: Does anyone know any software capable of drawing these things easily? I'm particularly interested in anything that works on Linux.
Vim-like navigation n Adobe Acrobat Reader
Adobe Acrobat Reader is currently one of the good PDF readers available on the Linux platform. xpdf and Evince do their job well, but Acrobat's display seems to be better. I am used to the Vim editor and I want Vim navigation features (using h,j,k, and l to move around) in Adobe Reader. How do I do…
fedora /usr/share/dict/words file
is there a way I can install file for Fedora 11 , (it should be a list of dictionary English words?)?
How to get passwords from Opera Password manager?
How I get my passwords from Password manager at Opera? Is there easy solution? I mean like firefox style.
How to install chrome when behind a proxy?
Here at college, I am behind a proxy. To install chrome, I download ChromeSetup.exe file and run it. Now it needs to connect to the internet in order to download the actual software. But I am behind a proxy. The ChromeSetup.exe file that I just executed does not detect/ask the proxy and tries to co…
Best way to organize lots and lots of media files?
I have lots and lots of media files. About 6TB spanned across 10 physical hard drives on a personal file server. Security is not a major issue, but is being handled via other means. These files consist of video, audio, documents, and software/installers/ISOs/etc. By the purest of coincidences, this…
Can a virus infect an ISO file?
I feel that it's going to be very difficult for a virus to infect an ISO file. What's your experience? Have you seen it happening ever? Is it not nearly unlikely? I ask because I've just found that my computer is infected and I wish to salvage as much stuff as possible. So I was wondering if I coul…
How do you split a large MPEG-4 video file into smaller files?
I have an hour of raw footage from a users group meeting that I want to split in to 10-minute chunks so I can upload them to YouTube. I did some searching and couldn't really find a good way to accomplish this. Do you know of a good method or tool for splitting video? I have access to Adobe softwar…
Prevent javascript from resizing IE window
I am looking for a way to prevent JavaScript on a webpage from resizing and repositioning my Internet Explorer window. This option is available in Firefox, but I can't find anything similar in Internet Explorer: I am using Internet Explorer 7 in Windows XP SP3. For what it's worth, the script doing…
How can I remap my Caps-Lock key to Escape (for Vim) in Snow Leopard?
Obviously, in Linux I can use xmodmap. On Leopard, I used an InputManager called PCKeyboardHack. But InputManagers are now broken. How can I preserve my sanity and keep on using Caps Lock to Escape in OS X 10.6?
Turn off thumnails on a specific drive (Windows 7)
Is it possible to prevent thumbnails from being generated on a specific disk drive? This would be useful for several reasons, one being performance (on optical drives), the other privacy (some information shouldn't be cached forever in an obscure location, e.g. scans of bank statements). I know the…
(Free) Dictionary Softwares on Windows
On Mac OS X, its native dictionary application works well for me (especially the added Japanese dictionary in Leopard). I am looking for an equivalent English dictionary software on Windows. I have tried online solutions such as "define:Google" in Google and other websites but my internet connectio…
Linux GUI Database Manager
Does anyone Know any KDE application for working with databases in a unified way? It must support several DBs (sqlite, MySQL, Oracle). GTK apps are also welcome :)
PuTTY authentication equivalent on Mac OS X?
On my Windows development machine, I use Pageant with a secret key to authenticate with an SVN server. I want to know: What's the equivalent Mac process for doing this? Pageant isn't ported, how do I authenticate?
VMWare vs VirtualBox ...what I should use
what I should using to work with linux on windows ... I don't know ! ... but I tried VirtualBox and VmWare what's the differents and which are the feutures