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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?
Can I use a Terminal command to switch to a specific space in OS X 10.6?
Is there any terminal command I can use to switch directly to a space in OS X 10.6 ? Something like:
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…
In Chrome, how can I reduce the empty space between bookmarks in the toolbar?
I have many bookmarks in the bookmarks toolbar in Chrome, most of them without any text (i.e. only showing the favicon). However, I find that there is too much blank space between the bookmarks/icons - it seems to be more than half of the width of the favicons themselves. I don't like the empty spa…
Streaming Desktop using FFMPEG in Windows
How to stream Desktop using FFMPEG in Windows? I have tried and after that this to stream Using this i got to stream the Camera. What command do I have to type to stream the Desktop in Windows?
How to move TextMate 2 output pane to a new window
So I've been trying TextMate 2 out and one of the changes is split panes. Now when I run rspec tests the output appears in a split pane at the bottom of the screen. Has anyone figured out how to move this back to a separate window or is it just not possible? I used to move the test output to anothe…
Linux file system for a big file server
I would like to know, from more experienced people, what would be the best choice of file system to use for a file server having more than 20TB of hard disks. Personally I always used EXT3 (back in the days) and EXT4 (since available) [and once ReiserFS 3 though it caused many data corruption] on m…
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 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…
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…
What to put on RAMDisk on Windows?
I got a lot of RAM installed in my PC recently and I looked into this RAMDisk thing. There are two things I've found from my investigation: You should not mess with Windows native pagefile/memory settings. Memory handling system of Windows and its services are perfected by multiple years of testing…
Windows 7 Licensing - Old Computer to New
I'm now a Mac user, but used to have a Windows laptop that I upgraded from Vista to 7 quite a while back (2 years now). I've not used the machine since I got my Mac, and wondered if there is any way of deactivating the license so it can be used on another Windows box (desktop) that I'd like to do s…
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?
Are USB hard drives really reliable enough to backup to?
I've been reading about backup solutions and have come across a number of people saying they use a USB external hard drive as part or all of their backup solution. Are USB hard drives really sufficiently reliable to use for backups? From what I read in the past (e.g., Why I'm done with portable har…
Browsing website hosted in the virtual machine from host machine's browser
I have installed Oracle VM Box and created a Virtual machine. Now I have hosted(in IIS) a website in the virtual machine. I want this website to be browsed in the host machine's browser. Can anybody let me know the settings needs to be configured.
How do I quickly copy 900,000 files?
I need to copy some data that includes 900,000 tiny files totaling around 30 gigabytes to a windows computer. However, it needs to be able to be copied and set up in under an hour and a half, and it can take 5+ hours to copy off a USB hard drive mostly due to the crazy amount of files. Is there a b…
Keep GNU screen window open after program terminates?
The GNU Screen manual says: When a program terminates, (per default) kills the window that contained it. The suggests that you can change this option, so that a program terminating won't kill the window it's in. How to I change this behavior?
Create "homework only" account on Windows
Like most kids, my kids love computers, and if I let them, they'd camp out on it every waking hour Facebooking and playing video games. So we have an app that limits their time each day (trying to introduce balance into their lives). However, homework needs to be done on the computer, and it should…
Static routing on a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND
My home network setup looks like this: Both routers are TP-Link TL-WR1043ND routers. The basement router handles all devices in the house that are connected via cable, handing out addresses for the 10.89.49.0/24 network via DHCP. Wireless doesn't really work from the basement, as the signal is too …