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Is there any Windows-based media player software that allows you to pause a video, and then un-pause a few seconds earlier?
I often use my laptop in the kitchen for following along with pre-recorded real-time cooking recipes. Sometimes the chef in the video gets too far ahead of me and I need to pause the video for a while (sometimes for minutes) to allow myself to catch up. But at the moment I pause the video, the next…
Why is my CPU usage broken in Process Explorer?
On my system (Windows 7), it seems that Process Explorer is reporting the wrong CPU usage: When Firefox is running, I constantly get 30%+ When I kill Firefox, I still get about the same CPU usage If I sort by CPU time, Process Explorer itself is taking between 18% and 22% Task Manager reports < 10%…
How to get Firefox to stop asking me to upgrade?
Every day or so, Firefox tells me: Update Available A security and stability update for Firefox is available: Firefox 5.0 Beta It is strongly recommended that you apply this update for Firefox as soon as possible. The only choices are "Ask Later" and "Update Firefox". I don't think 5.0b is actually…
1080p - MacOS X - Screen / Font rendering very bad
I have a MacBook Pro mid 2009 and a samsung SyncMaster B2230 monitor. I have connected them through the standard display port adapter and a DVI to HDMI connector cable. Now the display resolution is at 1080p. My problem is, the font and the display or the pixels, are not as they should look like. I…
How can I access a shared folder from VMware workstation?
I have a Windows XP SP3 virtual machine, and I set a shared folder at the Windows 7 host which is running VMware workstation. How can I find the shared folder when I am in the VM? I have nothing in .
Only email on cron errors for jobs in cron.daily, cron.hourly, etc
I have several cron jobs that run (in , , , etc.) and email with the results. I'd like to stop those emails if the jobs are succeeding, and only email on error (which I understand can be done by redirecting to ). I understand how to do that for individual cron jobs, but the scripts in those special…
Ubuntu synaptics touchpad is too sensitive
I recently switched from Windows to Linux (Linux Mint specifically) on my IBM T61 laptop. Since making the switch, my touchpad has been nearly unusable. When I place one finger on the touchpad, without moving it, the cursor bobs around in a small area as if I am making a number of small movements. …
Set environment variables from command line - and make them stick globally
Possible Duplicate: What are PATH and other environment variables, and how can I set or use them? In Windows 2008 Server R2, once I set an environment variable in the command line, how can I make it stick? For example, it's easy to write: set path=%path%; much easier than the crummy right-click My …
How to reset / reinstall the networking on Windows 7
I've already followed the steps for reinstalling the TCP/IP protocol driver. The problem I am experiencing is probably pretty specific, but I am hoping there is a general solution to fix. It seems like I need to reinstall the entire networking subsystem. If I can't do that then I am probably reinst…
How do I repair a broken .mov (QuickTime) file?
I have a video file (.mov > QuickTime) which was recorded with a VHoldr ContourHD camera. One of the problems with this camera is that when the battery dies, it doesn't terminate the video file correctly... which is exactly what happened to my video. I've searched around a bit, and all the video an…
Windows command line: How to append a variable in a loop?
I'm trying to fill a variable with a space-separated list of files, but I can't quite seem to get my head around it. Here's what I have so far: I would have expected this to keep appending the variable with the next filename, but instead it replaces the whole variable: I see in the second line of o…
Reset the open file window size in Google Chrome?
How can I reset the open file window in Google Chrome back to it's default size? My wife resized it when uploading photo's to a website and I would like to reset it I have deleted the BagMRU & Bags registry keys, but they do not appear to affect Chrome I have also deleted my user profile and starte…
Video players that display audio waveforms
Are there any programs that can play video and display the audio track as a waveform? I need one for either OSX, Linux, or Windows.
How to open a PowerShell in the current folder?
This keyboard shortcut Shift + Menu, W, Enter opens the command prompt. Scott Hanselman points to an app that does the same for PowerShell and says it's builtin in Windows 7. The tool doesn't seem to work on Windows 7 and can't find the builtin option.
Setting and enforcing password policies and across a network of Macs
I have been looking at ways of essentially having a domain environment for an office of about 15 Macs which can be used to enforce password changes, a minimum level of password strength and even encryption of the user directories etc. Ideally this would be something that could integrate with Google…
Clear Windows "Run" box cache
One thing that I use almost every minute is the Windows Run box (WINDOWS+R). It let's you type a path and auto-completes it really quickly so that you can jump to any dir in no time. My problem is that I recently swapped disks and re-organized content so a few of the drive letters changed while mos…
Storing hard drive near electric wire
Can storing a hard drive near an electric wire (220V) damage the hard drive? I have no clue about such things so I thought I'd ask here. It's just that I found a suitable storage place for one of my external drives, but there's electric wire nearby.
What is the difference between suspend and hibernate in Fedora?
I have fedora 13. What is the difference between suspend and resume? If I suspend, how do I turn on the pc? If I hibernate, how do I get out of hibernation?
Is there something like gnome-keyring for Windows7?
I want to use my login password to autounlock a passwordmanager. Is there something which makes this possible and fairly secure?
PDF to text convertor
I'm looking for a "one-click" way of taking ANY PDF and converting it to plain text. Ideally on OSX or Linux. Ideally, the solution would include OCR functionality, but it need not necessarily. The top priority is having something that can take ANY file WITHOUT configuration.