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How to force Fedora 12 to start to text mode?
I have a problem with my newly installed ATI driver so my Fedora 12 boots to a frozen graphic mode display. I need to force it to boot to text mode interface to start adjusting my X configuration. What to do? This is a new Fedora 12 installation without any change to GRUB etc. Thanks!
Why hasn't micro-USB replaced all others?
I have devices that take regular USB, mini USB, and micro USB. I get why each was developed. I also get that there is substantial investment in full-sized Type A - every computer has one, and every flash drive expects one. But why do we keep making full-sized Type B and Mini-B sockets on devices? W…
"-bash: line 7: dpkg: command not found" said CentOS
I'd like to use the command in my PHP script (using ). I'm running CentOS. Is there a way I can install the command on there? Step by step guide would be fantastic.
How can I find files that are not modified in the last five months?
At our university we have the policy that on certain disks' data is deleted if it is not modified for six months. Now I would like to list all files that have not been modified in the last five months. How can I do this? I have access to all basic Linux tools, like Bash, find, etc.
How to change font color in Excel based on cell value?
How do you change the font color of a column of cells based on their entered value? I've got a column with the heading at row 1 and the values starting at row 2 going on down. I want to change font color based on what is entered in the cells. E.g. If the value is Active, than make the color green a…
How do you hide a computer name on a network? (OS X 10.6)
I regularly plug my Macbook Pro into a network at work, but because of the way Mac networking works, my computer's name instantly becomes available to any other Mac on the network. Is there a way to hide my computer's name so that I do not appear on the network list of other people's computers? Als…
How to Find the Device Associated with a Mounted USB Drive in Linux
How do you find the device (e.g. /dev/*) for a mounted USB drive in Linux (Ubuntu 10.04)? I'm trying to format a Cruzer USB flash drive, and when I plug it in, the icon for the mounted filesystem appears on my desktop. However, when I open GParted, it doesn't list the filesystem as an option to par…
Looking for a good annotation tool for PDF documents on Windows
I noticed that on my Mac, the program Preview allows you annotate PDF documents. If I open up the same PDF file in Adobe Reader on the PC, I can see the annotations in the Comments pane, but I cannot create new ones. I'm guessing that both programs are using some standard defined in PDF documents f…
Installing Mercurial 1.5.4 on Ubuntu 10.04
I've downloaded the source and tried to install via the README instructions: but I get the following errors: Keep in mind that I know I can install using: but that gets me an older version (1.4.3-1). So, what's going on?
How to install RAID drivers on already installed Windows 7?
64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate 6GB RAM Intel i7 920 Intel X25-M SSD 80GB 2,5" Club 3D Radeon HD5750 GA-EX58-UD4P Motherboard I've been running fine with Windows 7 installed on the SSD. I wanted to create an mirrored Raid-1 setup for backups using two hard disks, so I ordered two Samsung HD203WI. This mo…
deleting windows system folder
I want to use an old drive as a secondary hard drive without reformatting. But this old hard drive contains my old Vista installation which takes up gigs of space. I tried changing ownership and it works to some extent but I can not delete anything in Windows/System32 folder. Is there an easy way t…
Snow Leopard: make command not found, even though XCode is installed?
So I've installed XCode on Snow Leopard. Why am I getting messages like this: What do I need to do to resolve this issue? Solution: I'm not sure what happened, but I was able to fix the problem by downloading the newest version of XCode and reinstalling it. Now I can see that I have make installed …
apt-get hangs when upgrading mysql-server-5.1
When I attempt to do the following: on my Ubuntu Server 10.04 installation, it hangs at the following line: I cannot even CTRL-C out of it! I end up having to kill my session and log in from a different terminal and the upgrade process is still running. I have rebooted it several times and when I g…
Battery charge suddenly drops from about 25% to 6%
I own a Lenovo Y500 series laptop. The battery being an year old lasts only 1 hour. But the strange thing is that, when the charge comes down to 25-20 it drops to 6%(critical battery level) in a moment. Please suggest some solution (other than replacing the battery). P.S. : I do many battery saving…
Download Virus/Malware Purposefully
Where can I download a virus, work, trojan, etc. for analysis? Yes, I'm actually hunting for malware, rather than keeping it at bay and hiding behind antivirus software and firewalls. I plan to analyze it in a lab for a project, but don't know where to even begin finding one.
How to charge an iPhone on a Windows PC without Installing iTunes
I want to be able to charge my iPhone on my work computer, which is running Windows Server 2008 SP1 64-Bit. When I plug the iPhone in with the USB cable, it will not charge. Windows attempts to locate a driver for the device but only comes up with a generic Camera device and even if I allow that to…
Will mirroring with an SSD improve read performance?
If you use Windows 7 to mirror a volume across an SSD drive and a mechanical hard drive, will the read performance be similar to a single SSD drive? I.e. is Windows smart enough to read from them both and use the data that comes back first?
Is there an OpenVMS EDT keypad plugin for gedit?
Is there a OpenVMS EDT keypad (layout) plugin for gedit?
Virtualbox, merging snapshots and base disk
I have a virtual machine with about 30 snapshots in branches. The current development path is 22 snapshots plus the base disk. The amount of files is seemingly having an impact now on IO and the dev laptop I'm using (don't know if it is host disk performance issues with the 140GB total size over a …
How can I extract an icon from a file-type and apply it to a shortcut?
I have a file of type that has a nice icon. I would like to set that icon as the icon for a shortcut on my desktop. However, the "change icon" option in the properties dialog can only extract icons from s, s, and s. I have had no luck finding the / / from which this file's icon originates. How can …