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My Spam Trap Caught A Company - How Legitimate Is Their Response?
I have my own domain (lets call it MyDomain.com), and my email account is set up such that all mails sent to @MyDomain.com will end up in the same mailbox. So, think of a word, put it in front of @MyDomain.com, send me an email, and I will get it. When I sign up for SomeService.com, the email addre…
Is there a stable Linux distro using btrfs?
I'm a big fan of ZFS on FreeBSD (I've been using it on my home server since before it got stable; bleeding edge, baby!) and I'd like to try out btrfs to see how that's evolving. Since it's still largely in development, none of the usual mainstream distros have btrfs as an option. I haven't used Lin…
Taping down Ethernet cable without damaging paint
I need to run some Ethernet cable across a room. The most logical thing, I think, is to go along the perimeter on top of the baseboard. How can I fix the cable in place in a way that I can later remove without damaging the paint? For context, this is an apartment, so I can't pull cable through the …
How to generate web picture gallery offline? (no php on server)
I've just attended a huge family gathering, and now an hour after getting home people are texting asking for the photos. The deal is that the images are like ~5mb a piece, so e-mailing people isn't an option. I have access to a few web servers with plenty of space, but no php or any other server si…
A disk is stuck in my slot-loading Dell Studio Hybrid. How can I get it out?
The slot-loading optical drive in my Dell Studio Hybrid has been acting up. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it churns and makes some unpleasant sounds. Now I can't even get it to eject the disc that's in there. Many drives have an "emergency eject" pinhole, but I don't see one here. How can I ge…
How do I change how fast the cursor hides on VLC in full screen mode?
When playing videos in full screen mode on VLC, I find that the mouse takes too long to hide (the control panel hides quickly enough, but the mouse lingers around for much longer). How do i control how fast the cursor hides? thanks
Install software using a downloaded port file
I want to install some software in Mac using 'port install software-name' but some software come with very big package and I don't have a stable connection. I want to download the port file using a download manager and then have port install the software using the downloaded file. Is it possible? H…
How do I rip an audio CD to a single file?
Many programs rip audio as one file per track. I'm looking for a program or method that can rip the whole audio CD to a single file. Which program or method can do this in Ubuntu?
Set default Ubuntu video player as VLC?
Is there a way to globally set the default video player in Ubuntu 10.04 (and soon 10.10) to VLC? (unless you really think there is another, higher performance player, in which case do let me know)
UNIX shell scripting: how to recursively move files up one directory?
I have a large number of small files, f, arranged in a directory structure like so: There are 11 directories at the level of A, each with about 100 directories at the level of B, each with about 30 directories at the level of C, each with one file f. How do I move all files f up one level? For exam…
Where should I put system-wide scripts in *nix system?
Can someone tell me of a sensible fairly standard place to put scripts that a number of users will need on an Ubuntu system?
Temporarily change timezone to display date/time shown during an SSH session
Is there any way I can customize the timezone (which in turn would change the way the time is displayed) for a given SSH session? The scenario: I am almost always logged in to a Unix box which is in US and the times shown for every command used (e.g. date modified when using ) are in the US format.…
How to escape commands in a bashrc alias?
I need to occasionally touch a file with the current timestamp as the filename. I would do so this way: However, I'd like to define an alias for this. When I try adding to the bashrc this: the result is that the filename is the same during the entire session, since the `date ..` gets calculated jus…
Is there a way to have shared control tmux session?
I'm looking for something similar to the of gnu screen for Linux
How to split a tar file into smaller parts at file boundaries?
I have a tar file that I want to split into multiple smaller tar files. This would be easy with , but I want the splitted files to be fully usable tar files themselves, which can't do as it will split at arbitrary points, not at file boundaries. So how to split a tar file into smaller parts at file…
Join Audio and Image -> Output as Video using FFmpeg
I have 1 image (jpg) and 1 audio file (MP3) and I would like to output this as a video file (say AVI for example). Does anyone know how to use FFMPEG to join the two? I'd like to show the image for the duration of the audio. Any ideas anyone?
How to make it blindingly obvious which window is active
I use keyboard shortcuts rather heavily. I have a dual monitor setup. I also have virtuawin so I can switch between desktops. The result of all this is that sometimes I will start using keyboard shortcuts in the wrong window. This can have disastrous effects. For example, what if I think I'm in fir…
Divvy alternatives for linux
Does anyone know of a Linux (Gnome, RHEL5) alternative to the app called "Divvy" for Mac OSX? Specifically, I'm looking for something well-polished and easy to use that can tile, split, move, and reorganize windows based on simple keyboard shortcuts.
How can I restore GRUB without a live CD?
I realize that this is a duplicate of a question asked before, but in that question the asker managed to find his live CD and no real answer appeared, thus I am re-asking it. I managed to screw up my GRUB by deleting two linux partitions on my hard drive from windows. After this, GRUB gives the err…
Need an app that tells about file & folder sizes
I need an app that tells about file & folder sizes, like what is the biggest file and/or folder on my hard disk, sort this detail from biggest file and/or folder to the smallest & vice versa, also able to tell me about this detail based on the folder that I have chosen.