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How do I fix my colour bash prompt wrapping?
I have defined a bash prompt (using PROMPT_FUNCTION) like so: In general, this gives me a multi-line prompt that displays some hg status info as well as my current virtualenv, looking (without colour) like this: The problem is, this is screwing with the calculation of the length of the prompt (I th…
How do I hide file extensions in a command prompt /dir output?
What I want to do seems very simple: I have a folder in Windows containing items of various types including PDF files, TXT files, and subdirectories. I am writing a one line .bat file to pull ONLY the PDF file names into a new text file. So far this is what I have in the .bat: This gives the follow…
How to kill a process with name having spaces?
A process with name=example can be killed by killall -9 example How to kill multiple instances of following command which contain spaces? "valgrind --tool=lackey ./testcases/kernel/syscalls/waitpid/waitpid03" Following command returns valgrind --tool=lackey ./testcases/kernel/syscalls/waitpid/waitp…
Why does Emacs insert ^m at the end of every line
Why does Emacs insert ^m at the end of every line in my Linux environment?
How does one connect three monitors to one computer?
I want to buy a PC and run three monitors from it. I need the desktop to span across all three. Purpose / intended use This is for pretty demanding gaming applications so I need optimum speed, resolution, and quality in general. I'll need to work with up-to-date graphics hardware. Not necessarily a…
Excel - conditional formatting in Shapes?
For a long time, I didn't think it was possible to have a Shape (e.g., Text Box) have a value set by formula, but it turns out you can. Similarly, it appears that you can't apply conditional formatting to Shapes (the option is grayed out in the Ribbon in Excel 2007); is there some secret way to wor…
Bind commands to key-up and key-down in AutoHotkey
I have written two functions in an AutoHotkey script: and . I now need to bind to when Pause is pressed down, and bind to when Pause is released. As an example, I would press and hold Pause to hide all windows, and release Pause to restore all windows. (This example is not my actual objetive). How …
Checking version of GCC compiler in Code::Blocks
How do I check, in Code::Blocks, what version of the GCC compiler am I using?
Outlook 2010 inbox unread count is wrong
My outlook 2010 inbox shows a count of 3 unread messages, but there are no unread messages in the inbox. There is no view, no filter on the inbox. Do you know a way to force re-calculation of that count ? Thanks
How to connect to internet from Ubuntu which is installed in a virtual machine using VMWare Workstation?
I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a virtual machine using VMWare Workstation. I have Windows 7 as my host OS. I want to connect to internet from Ubuntu. Can anyone please gives steps for connecting to internet through guest OS?
Hard Drive read speed below 2 MB/sec. Normal? How to improve?
I have a relatively new Western Digital 1TB EADS hard drive (SATA) as my secondary drive. I've always found that accessing certain folders with lots of content (e.g. /Music/) was slow. I ran a few diagnostic tools (chkdsk, HD Tune, HD Tach, HDDScan) and haven't found anything. The drive is defragge…
Hide all images on a page in Firefox (plain text only)
Can I hide all images displayed on a page in Firefox? I want to view the page in plain text only (with no images). Is there any Firefox add-on for this?
Renaming an Invalid Filename in NTFS
Recently, I loaned my flash disk to one of my friends, who had Mac OS. He copied a file on it, whose name included a backslash (\). The flash disk is NTFS formatted. Windows does not allow such filenames, and neither opens the file, nor deletes it, nor lets me delete the file. There are naive appro…
(Mac OS X) How can I adjust the default popup size of Quick Look in Finder?
If I have an item selected in Finder, I can do a Quick Look by pressing space. Is there a way to control the default size of the Quick Look popup? Most of the time the default size is way to small for reading the content of a pdf or doc. I need a way to read the content and also be able to move to …
How to prevent an application from running in fullscreen mode in Windows 7?
Is there a way to prevent any program run in full screen mode? I'm usually working with several programs at once, and I find it annoying to be in and out of full screen to go from one to another when that happens. I´m using Windows 7.
Is it possible to delete chrome history using wildcards?
I know I can highlight individual items in chrome's history and remove them, using chrome:history, but I'd like to delete all entries from a given domain, and all entries matching a given set of search criteria. How would I do that? Is there an extension that gives this?
How to get the URL of a Gmail or other webapp page in Chrome "application shortcut" mode?
In the web browser, if you want to copy the URL of the current page, in normal browser mode, you'd just copy the URL out of the address bar. But when your web app is running in the special "application shortcut" mode of , there is no address bar visible. So how do you find out the URL for your curr…
rsync N newest files in a directory
What would be the easiest way to go about rsyncing the n newest files in a directory to a remote server?
Gmail Chrome shortcut + unread message count in Windows 7 taskbar?
Is there a way to display the unread messages count in the Windows 7 taskbar icon that I pinned there after creating a Chrome desktop shortcut for Gmail? Sort of like favicon notifiers but it should work for the taskbar icon. Gmail Notifier Plus works fine but is standalone application that adds an…
Remote desktop session closes immediately after logging in
I have a Windows7 Ultimate x64 machine that I connect to via RDP from multiple places (a few WinXP/Win7 machines, a few iOS devices using different RDP clients). Everything works like a charm. But there's this single 32-bit WinXP SP3 laptop that does not work. Specifically, I can connect, I can log…