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How can I change password for multiple credentials in Windows Vault (a.k.a. Credential Manager)?
My Windows 7 laptop is not joined to my company's Active Directory domain. However, I connect to a number of resources on the domain, including intranet sites, file shares, and TFS. Every three months, my company makes me change my password. I've discovered that Windows 7 has a Credential Manager w…
Multiple parameter keyword searches in firefox (or chrome)
I love using firefox's (and chrome's) custom keyword searches. One lookup I often do is a company directory using people's first and last names. I was wondering if I could substitute 2 parameters like this: http://internal.mycompany.com/directorySearch?fname=%s&lname=%s (this is a fake url) so I co…
Highlight a single word *always* in a terminal
Is there a terminal emulator (like GNOME terminal) for linux/unix out there, which allows for highlighting a single word always (such as "highlight the word FAIL in red")? Or maybe is there a plugin for the GNOME terminal (if such a thing like "plugins for the gnome-terminal" exists). The solution …
Setting proxy via http_proxy on Mac
I am using an HTTP proxy on MacOS 10.7 (which works for Safari.app, when set in the system preferences). I'm now trying to set the proxy for command-line applications using the environment variable. However, I'm seeing the following error (proxy details replaced by uppercase variables Any ideas wha…
What's the difference between Processor and Processor Information in PerfMon counters?
In the Windows PerfMon tool it is possible to add many types of counters. What is the difference between the objects Processor and Processor Information? For example, they both have the counters: User time, Processor Time and Privilege time. So what's the difference?
Running a VM off a USB 2.0 Flash Drive - Mac/Parallels/XP
I use a MacBook Air as my primary machine, and the 128GB SSD means space is precious. To save about 10 GB, I've been running Parallels with a Windows XP VM off an external USB hard drive, which performs as well in everyday use as running the VM off the internal SSD. So, I bought a tiny 32GB USB 2.0…
How does a critical Windows Update find every Windows computer on the Internet?
I've read that Patch Tuesday is the second Tuesday of every month, so I could picture the code in Windows Update on the client machine being set to contact the company servers so Microsoft doesn't have to find all the Windows computers- all the Windows computers come to them on that day. But if the…
Is there an easy way to disable this laptop's touchpad?
Specifically, I'm on a Dell Inspiron 1525. I'd like to disable the touchpad so that I can re-enable if my mouse were to run out of batteries (so physically breaking the connection to the motherboard or uninstalling the driver will not be the best options). In the Control Panel, when I go to "Mouse"…
How can I find out what program installed or is using a specific DLL file?
I've got a DLL file in the SYSTEM32 directory of one server, which I'm not sure I actually need. Google has told me what it is normally used for, but the software has never been installed on this system. Still, I do consider it possible that one of the other installed products on the server may hav…
Resources To Use FFMPEG Effectively
Lately i've posted a lot of questions about how to use ffmpeg. It's pretty clear to me that I am missing some sort background in video encoding and was wondering if any of my fellow superusers had any good resources for studying up on video encoding. What do I need to understand before I can use ff…
Get column number of an address in Excel
In cell I have written the text string (w/ out the quotes). I need to get the column number of the address value represented by that string, . Everything I've tried thus far returns either an error or the column number (which is the column number of column ). The number I expect (if I could get to …
Word: Resize Image by Percent - Macro
I routinely paste many screen captures into Microsoft Word 2007 and then have to manually resize them to around 75%, which becomes very tedious. The screen captures are all different sizes. I've tried creating a macro for this, but I'm only able to write a macro that will resize a selected image to…
How to trigger a check for updates in Firefox programatically or from a command line?
Is there a command line switch for firefox.exe or an "about:" URL that will either force an update check or at least display the Help/About dialog, which checks for updates and tells if you're running the latest version? One site claimed that the "about:" URL was the same as menu Help -> About, but…
Faking monitor EDID information
My monitor is sort of finicky. Sometimes I run a program that cycles through resolutions and the monitor will refuse to give its EDID information for a few days: This causes the video card to think the maximum resolution it will support is 1600x1200, whereas I was running it at the optimal 1680x105…
How can I enter 2 commands on Windows command line?
In the DOS command line, I used to be able to enter ¶ between commands to put multiple commands on one line. For example, instead of typing I could enter Has this functionality been removed or has this been replaced by something else? How can I run multiple commands from one line?
Extend Monitors on Both Sides - Using Splitter
I'm using the following splitter here: I've got two monitors connected. I have my desktop extending to them but, it shows the same 'extension'. Is is possible to have the two screens be different instead of the same?
Why am I able to execute a program that is not in my PATH environment variable?
I was wondering why the command is globally accessible? I could run it from any directory and its working: How does it work? This is what my system variable looks like: As for me, is located in
Run python oneliner in bash script
The following is the python one-liner I want to run as part of my bash script (pom.xml is a maven POM xml file) I want to have the result of the command be assigned to variable MVN_VER This is my base script: However it fails to run. If I run the script with +x option, it is what I see: I think it …
How to open ods files in Excel?
What is the best way to open ods files in Excel 2003? Is there some plug-in available? Should I use some convertor to xls? Or would it be best if I just used LibreOffice (or OpenOffice)? The file I want to open shouldn't contain anything fancy, so I probably don't need a solution that understands e…
VAIO laptop's wireless indicator blinking when connected to access point
I have a VAIO laptop model VGN-C22GH. It has a built in wireless card with a Intel Centrino processor on his motherboard. When using Ubuntu 10.04, the wireless indicator blinks violently. This symptom does not appear with earlier versions of Ubuntu like 9.10 or 8.10. This leads me to believe that i…