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are there similar sites/services like ninite.com
I'm a programmer but keep the pc's of my relatives healthy, so i often have to install utilities on pc's. Therefore i use http://ninite.com/ which let me bundle these install's in one download and ...
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Triple boot with windows 8, windows 7 and ubuntu
I tried to install windows 8 to an new hdd, but after installation i cant boot it with grub.I configured grub with sudo update-grub, it added the Windows 8 to the menu (which is instaled to sdb) but ...
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Wuala error: “Failed to find Java VM” even when Java is installed
I have just installed Wuala, some kind of Dropbox equivalent, and, when I start it, a window appear telling "Failed to find Java VM".
I already have a Java VM installed, but I have checked again, and ...
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Using multiple USB webcams in Linux?
Running more than one USB webcam in Debian/Linux results in the the following error:
libv4l2: error turning on stream: No space left on device
VIDIOC_STREAMON: No space left on device
What ...
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Adding a trigger command to autocomplete function in zsh
When you define an alias like alias g=git, the shell will pick it up and run the corresponding autocomplete function. Now, there's a program out there called hub, which is basically a supserset of ...
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My OSX's download speed is limited
With the same wireless network environment(2Mbps), the speed of downloading in Windows(another computer) is around 200Kbytes. while in OSX(have an Macbook Pro / 10.6.8), it's limited around ...
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Different access IP between Outlook and Webmail?
I check email on the same computer in the same location using Outlook or webmail (web-browser). My webmail logged and showed the current and the last login IP. If I check my email by Outlook then ...
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Laptop wakes from sleep, once, due to audio controller (Windows 7)
The laptop is a recent Dell XPS 15z and the problem is as follows (reproducable about 90% of tries):
put laptop to sleep using either Start->Sleep or closing the lid
laptop goes to sleep after about ...
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How can I get Windows 7-like alternating wallpapers in Windows XP?
In Windows 7, there is a theme of wallpapers which will be alternated once a few minutes. For example, in the Control Panel » Personalize, I can choose the "Nature" theme, then the wallpaper will be ...
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Can I change ethernet settings of Mac OS X system mounted via Firewire?
I have a Mac Pro that has been brought from our office to my home. The Mac Pro is configured with a static IP address for the office, which uses a completely different network range than I have at my ...
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move focus to active or next window on Mac when emacs-24 running
Related to Passing through certain M-<key> command to OS in Emacs
If I set a keyboard shortcut to 'move focus to active or next window', when I get to emacs-24, it swallows the keystroke, ...
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Looking for Primos “name generation” code
Anyone remember Primos ? It had a shell-level thing called "name generation" which was very useful. Eg. to rename a bunch of files from part1.suffix to part1.new.suffix2 you could say
rename *.suffix ...
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Can't turn computer on after re-attaching hard drive
I have an Eee PC 1008HA. A few days before I got a virus that was preventing the Windows to boot but I could turn the computer on.
I opened (disassembled) the Eee PC, then disconnected the hard disk. ...
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Linux in Vmware think my AMD Phenom 2 X2@X4 is overclocked at ~3650 MHz?
My AMD Phenom 2 X2 550 BE unlocked to x4 is mildly overclocked to 3315 MHz in my Bios and my Windows 7 but Linux think it is overclocked to ~3650 MHz? In my Bios and my Open Hardware Monitor it's ...
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How to burn a data DVD in Windows XP
I am trying to burn a data DVD (DVD+R) in Windows XP SP3 on a Dell desktop computer. The computer has a licensed copy of Nero 6.3. Nero indicates that an update to version 6.6 is available, but after ...
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How can I fix error 0x8007007A when installing Win7 as a 2nd os
I an trying to install Windows 7 as a second operating system through WINE in Ubuntu off a CD R/W. But, whenever I do, I get the error message (Windows was unable to create the required installation ...
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Dell Studio XPS Factory restore
I have a Dell Studio XPS 1645. I want to perform a System Restore to the Factory Settings. I want a clean restore, and the software tells me that all my data will be deleted. Does this apply to ALL my ...
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Warning after compile with GVim
When I compile(g++ 4.6.3) from inside GVim(!g++ a.cpp -O2 -Wall ...) the following warning appears in terminal in which I've opened the Gvim:
** (gvim:2123): WARNING **: Unable to create Ubuntu Menu ...
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Internet connectivity issues with one router but work ok with other router
I have one Tplink ADSL ROUTER and when i enter username and password on setup page then everything works fine.
Now i have one more router Netgear router then when i enter same username and password ...
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What services potentially unsafe in Windows 7 can be disabled?
What services windows 7 for domestic users are potentially unsafe that can be disabled without compromising the system, making it the safest and most difficult security breaches?
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how do I change the resolution on my windows 8 laptop?
I had the windows 8 consumer preview from when it came out until the new windows 8 Release preview came out a few days ago. I recently updated my computer and I noticed that my resolution went back ...
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Is it possible to port a working Windows XP system to a VirtualBox VM?
On my old laptop I have been using Windows XP for a really long time.
I have completed my switch from the old laptop to a new one (which has Windows 7 running on Intel i5 - the older laptop had Intel ...
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How to plug power/reset buttons from case to motherboard leads?
I have a motherboard I salvaged from a pre-assembled computer. Except now I'm trying to use it in my own custom build. The problem is, this motherboard doesn't have any documentation because it was ...
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HP Pavilion DV6 doesn't recognize wireless networks
Okay so about a few weeks after I got my laptop the wifi would connect and disconnect, off and on.
And every time I troubleshoot it, a message comes up saying there's a network cable not properly ...
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Slow Transfer Speed Between USB 3.0 Devices
I have an SSD installed, and when I'm transferring to or from an external HDD via USB 3.0 I get speeds of upwards 100mb/s.
However if I'm transferring between 2 external HDDs both on 3.0 I get a ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to close windows from the Windows 7 taskbar window selector?
If, for example, Windows Explorer is in the first position of the taskbar and there are multiple explorer windows open, holding START and pressing 1 will cycle through the available windows and ...
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Why my downloads fails after downloading few MBs?
I am having this bizarre problem, Whenever I try to download, say 50Mb files with Chrome or Firefox, after few Mb of download, its saying "unknown network error", but with Internet Download Manager, ...
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How to specify or add directory to Python.h search path during setup.py build/install
I'm running Linux, and have downloaded a python module I must install without access to any but my particular /home/user directory (I have no root privileges nor the option to pursue them).
This of ...
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Speed up file access on home network
I have 2 PCs (Windows 7 Ultimate) and a Mac running Windows 7 using vmware fusion on my home network tied together using WRN1000 NETGEAR Router
On one of the PC's I have a set of file (MYOB .myo). ...
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Resetting or reformatting XBox 360 HD [migrated]
I'd like to remove my account from being associated to my XBox, so that I may sell it. I assume I will need to format/clean the disk somehow? but I have gone through the settings and only see a ...
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Summing / Running totals
I have 4 columns: Name, Week, Batch and Units Produced (Cols, A,b,c,d). In column e, I need to keep running totals based on name and week. When the week changes for the same person, restart the ...
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Search for particular file type in a particular website
How can I search for particular type of files (i.e. PDF) from a website? Can I use Google to do this?
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Windows 8: Never Combine, Hide Labels
Like This question, but for Windows 8. The old registry hack doesn't work anymore.
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libc.so.6() (64-bit) is needed by … ubuntu 11.10
I am trying to install an odbc driver for vPostgres (Vmware's version for postgres) on Ubuntu 11.10 (64-bit).
I have downloaded the rpm file of the installer (64-bit) and when I try to install the rpm ...
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How can I move my iPod music to an iPad? [migrated]
How can I get the songs out of my iPod and move them to an iPad?
I thought I could just copy the music to my computer and then transfer it to the iPad, but didn't work (I couldn't see any music file ...
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WordPress and EverNote integration, any existing solutions?
Actually the tag and category system in WordPress and EverNote are very similar, almost exactly the same.
We can create a notebook/notebook group in EverNote, its counterpart in Wordpress is ...
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Is it possible to reformat an NTFS drive as Ext3 while keeping the data intact?
I have a 2 TB drive with about 900 GB of data on it. I'd like to convert it to ext3. I understand that there is no way to actually do it. So I'd like to try the following:
Shrink the 2TB ...
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How to add a repository for only one package?
I want to add a repository but only for one package. For example, if I want to install 'ubuntu-tweak', I have to do this:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get ...
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Is there a free way to monitor a serial port on Windows 7 x64?
The title questions pretty much says it all. I've looked around quite a bit, but I have yet to find a free way to monitor a serial port (without opening or blocking it from other applications), that ...
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0xC4 Blue Screen with HyperSLI and Virtual Box
I wonder if anyone had any insight as to why my Windows 7 install blue screens whenever I start VirtualBox VMs while HyperSLI is enabled. I know that HyperSLI is the issue, because if I restart the ...
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The Best Way to custom-tag and aggregate Information Across My Website [closed]
I have a website running on a content management system (Joomla!) with content hosted within Joomla and in blog running on WordPress. I want to be able to search across all the pages on my site (i.e. ...
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Why is there no “pathspec” when I try to remove a folder in Git?
I am trying to remove a folder from my Git repository with
git rm folderToRemove
but Git issues this error when I try to do so.
fatal: pathspec ...
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How can I have my Tomato router respond with a different address for a DNS query?
I am running Tomato software on my Asus router.
I have a service that references my home server by its internet name "home.mydomain.com". When I am away from home, it works great as it resolves via ...
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Why is Excel removing leading leading zeros when displaying CSV data?
I have a CSV text file with the following content:
"Col1","Col2"
"01",A
"2",B
"10", C
When I open it up with Excel, it displays as shown here:
Note that Cell 2A attempts to display "01" as a ...
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How to disable the start screen on Windows 8 Release Preview?
The old advice to set the REG_DWORD value named RPEnabled (some sources claim it's RPEnable) under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer to 0 doesn't work anymore since ...
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Wireless router to wireless router
I'm trying to connect my wrt to a dsl modem/router combo without extensive cords running across the floor trying to stay away from the other costly powerline adapter option please advise
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Is there a macro around that will let me set a button in Outlook 2010 to set a flag for followup in 3 days?
Is there a macro around that will let me set a button in Outlook 2010 to set a flag for followup in 3 days? I can do each task each time under "custom" but this is time consuming. I would really like ...
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What security changes are necessary when connecting DSL modem directly to PC instead of router?
Windows XP
I have a user with a single PC that was connected to the internet via a standard home router. The router is now having hardware-related issues and to save money, they're considering ...
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How to determine which image(s) in a word document is unusually large?
I have a word 2007 document that is now 7MB in size that is being edited by many folks. I would like to figure out which of the many images in the document is the 'culprit'. My hunch is likely one ...
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Networked profile using dumb NAS
I have 3 computers at home all running Windows 7, and want to be able to have each user's files and settings to be available regardless of which computer they use. I don't have any servers, just a ...
