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Any keyboard shortcut for "Back" in Chromium browser?
Is there a keyboard shortcut for "Back" in Chromium browser? I thought the Backspace key usually works, but it doesn't. On Ubuntu 11.10.
Can I get auto-completion for words in Microsoft Word 2010?
How can I start typing a word, and have Microsoft Word offer me suggestions so I don't need to finish typing? Is there an addon I can buy or download that would do this for me?
Have deleted email in Outlook become 'read'
I often delete emails by hitting the 'x' when the little popup window shows a new email, so they end up in my Deleted Items, but they still show as read (so DI is bold, and there's a number in parentheses after). Where can I set it in Outlook so that all deleted emails automatically have 'read' sta…
Dropped ssh/X session, how to pickup where left off?
I am VPN from a Linux box to another. I log in to the other box with ssh -X. I open an X window/program in an attempt to do a software installation. The painful truth is that this software cannot be installed from the shell. Anyway, all is well but slow. However, the VPN session will periodically d…
How can I force "Open With" in the context menu to skip directly to browsing for a program file
When opening a file of an unknown type Win 7 will first offer to use the web service to search for a program. I find this screen useless and would like to skip it. After I select to use an installed program to open a file, Win 7 presents a list of installed programs which nine times out of ten does…
How can I share my clipboard between two Macs?
Is there an easy way I could send clipboard data from one Mac on the LAN to another?
What's the difference between "shutting down the computer" vs "shutting down the hard disk"?
I was wondering: What's the difference between shutting down the computer and shutting down the hard disk? Aren't they the same thing? That is: I can't use the computer if the hard disk is shut down. If I shut down the computer, isn't the hard disk shut down along with it too?
Should I enable jumbo frame size of 9000 bytes for my NICs?
Should I enable a jumbo frame size of 9000 bytes for my NICs if I am running a gigabit network? Will it increase performance? For this scenario: PC to router to PC, on a gigabit network.
Finding insecure content on the page
When Chrome accesses a page that has some insecure content on the page, it puts a slash through the https:// and says that that is the case. How can I find the content that is not secured without going through the page source code?
How can I generate a list of files from a list of sectors?
I've had a hard disk failure and managed to rescue some data from the disk (1TB) with GNU's . The last 800GB of the disk were perfect, no single error, but in the first 200GB there were almost 14000 errors (badblocks) spread across the area. creates a logfile that describes where the badblocks are.…
Can two Linux partitions use the same swap space?
I have Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7 installed on my machine, due to some reasons I need to install one more copy of Ubuntu.. Is it possible that the new Ubuntu uses the same swap space used by previous one?
Can't get keyboard to work correctly in putty
I'm using putty on win7 as client, to log into ssh on a debian server. But I've met a strange problem about keyboard behaviors on putty console. I noticed that it's about keyboard config in putty. After reading the manual of putty, I successfully made key to work, but still have troubles about , ar…
Do fanless NAS devices exist? If not, can I build one myself?
I'm interested in finding a fanless NAS with at least two drives for silence and reliable storage (RAID 1), but I haven't been able to find anything. Do these exist? Or does having a CPU in the NAS necessitate a fan so the device doesn't fry? I'd be interested in a DIY solution (maybe something wit…
Copy content of txt file without opening it
Is there a way or program to copy content of file to clipboard without opening it? Now I have to . A little bit annoying if you do it often. Is there a possible shortcut for this operation?
How do I stop automatic changing of iterm tab titles?
After switching to using instead of (I didn't like how the default terminal worked with one config file and utilities like with another), the behavior of iterm2 changed. Before, when I set the tab titles manually, they would remain there unless I 'd into another server, at which point the title wou…
What's the Unix command-line symbol for "the PID of the last suspended process"?
In an interactive console like , sometimes something will go wrong and the console becomes unresponsive. One solution is to suspend the process, then kill it. To suspend the process, I can press . To kill that process, I can run to list all the processes and show only the ones that contain 'irb', t…
Move the gnome-panel to second monitor (Linux Mint 11/12, Gnome 2 & 3)
Introduction I'm new to Linux Mint but I do use Linux since 2003 (mostly Debian and Ubuntu). Up to now it was always possible to easily move a panel in Gnome to wherever I wanted it by pressing Alt + Button1 (left mouse) to move the panel. In Linux Mint this does not seem to work. Question How can …
Remove custom formatting from a sitcky (OSX Stickies)
When pasting text into a sticky, the original font/color/style of the source text is preserved. This can be really annoying over time. Other applications have a clear formatting shortcut key (Google uses cmd-\, openoffice cmd-m). What I'm looking for is: shortcut key to remove formatting / revert t…
GUI tool to manage services in Ubuntu
Are there any GUI tools to manage the services running on Ubuntu?
How to disable auto insert notification in Windows 7?
Alright, here's the problem. My hard drive activity light on my custom built PC is blinking exactly once every second. Microsoft has this to say on the issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138598 There has been discussion on this issue several months ago: Why does my hard drive LED light blink ev…