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How do I make a machine “blank screen” for a period of time (as a penalty) if certain noise levels are reached?
My kids (4 and 5) yell a lot when playing games on computer. I found an effective cure for this. I ssh into game computer and do:
chvt 3; sleep 15; chvt 7
when I hear loud noises. This will turn ...
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How do I locate the MAC address of my computer?
I am unable to locate the MAC address in a new computer with Windows 7. I've tried ipconfig /all in the console to which I got no items match your search. I also tried getmac. A screen flashed very ...
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How do I reduce the desktop icon size in Windows 7?
How can I reduce the size of my desktop icons if the video resolution is already on the highest setting?
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What is the 2007 Microsoft Office Plugin for Netscape Navigator?
After installing Office 2007, the following plugin shows up in Firefox:
2007 Microsoft Office system 12.0.4518.1014
Office Plugin for Netscape Navigator
What exactly does it do?
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How can I copy a DVD to another DVD using a single DVD drive?
I need to copy a DVD to another DVD, but I have only a single DVD drive.
How can I accomplish this? I tried copying files to the desktop and then to another DVD. It didn't work out.
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Why don't websites immediately display their text these days?
I've noticed that recently many websites are slow to display their text. Usually, the background, images and so on are going to be loaded, but no text. After some time the text starts appearing here ...
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How do I lock and unlock the OSD of a “AOC monitor 21'”?
My AOC monitor 21' has an on-screen display, but I'm wondering how its lock function works.
Can you help me figure out how to lock and unlock the OSD?
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How can I get the same SSID for multiple access points?
I need to upgrade my existing wireless infrastructure and this time I want 2 access points to cover my house, since I get blind spots no matter what with a single AP. I have physical cabling to my ...
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How do I delete a user profile on a Windows 7 machine that is part of a domain?
How can I delete the local user profile on a Windows 7 machine that is connected to a Windows Server 2008 domain?
DelProf doesn't seem to exist on Windows 7.
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How do I install the Sun Java SDK in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric and later versions?
Since 11.10 Ubuntu does not provide the sun-java-jdk, how do I install it?
105
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How do I get different background images on my dual monitors?
Is there a way to set two different background pictures for my two monitors in Windows 7?
By default the same background picture is used for both displays. I am looking for a solution without ...
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How to search inside files on Windows 7?
In Windows XP we can search for files which contains a defined keyword (inside all files types).
Windows 7 can look inside files for a keyword.
Okay, but only for text files. (*.doc, *.txt, *.inf, ...
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What is the cURL command-line syntax to do a POST request?
How do I make a POST request with cURL command-line tool?
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What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?
In Windows you have a C: drive. Everything labeled beyond that is with the following letter.
So your second drive is D:, your DVD is E: and if you put in a USB stick it becomes F: and the following ...
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Transatlantic ping faster than sending a pixel to the screen?
John Carmack tweeted,
I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that?
And if this weren’t John Carmack, I’d file it under “the interwebs being ...
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How to stop jucheck from running? Java won't remember “Check for Updates Automatically” setting
I've installed Java on Windows Vista, and every day I get a Vista security warning asking me if I want to run "jucheck". Apparently this is the Java automatic updater.
Well, I don't want it to run ...
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Can't create new folder from anywhere in Windows 7
I have this problem on two of my new laptops and can't seem to find a decent workable solution elsewhere in forum land. The problem is that on my Windows 7 Professional machines the right mouse button ...
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Modify or disable Windows 8 swipe gestures on touchpad / laptop
I have an ASUS G75VW laptop with a Synaptic touchpad (/trackpad). When I move my finger from one edge towards the middle (the swipe), Windows 8 will bring up different stuff.
This is a problem ...
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How do I change the wallpaper of Windows 7 Starter Edition?
Is there a way to change the desktop wallpaper in Windows 7 Starter Edition? I wanted to do that on my new netbook, just to find out that there is no "Customize" option in the control panel. Microsoft ...
12
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How to curve text in Word 2010?
I can't find how to create curved text in Word 2010 like you could in previous versions through WordArt. The point is to have the text baseline follow some arc or circle.
In WordArt presets, I can ...
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How do I change the default font of Sticky Notes?
How can the default font be changed for the Windows 7 Sticky Notes application? I can't stand that faux handwriting font it uses.
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Installed babylon in Firefox, now I can't get rid of it
While installing Digsby (an IM client) I accidentally installed the Babylon toolbar for Firefox. This was one version of Firefox ago and it didn't go away still (I had 3.5, and installed 4 and it ...
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How do I play audio through a Bluetooth headset in Windows 7?
I recently did an in-place upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 RTM. For the most part, things have gone brilliantly. The only issue I've been facing is regarding my Bluetooth headset, a Dell BH200. The ...
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How do I remove the header/footer of some pages?
I created a template in Word 2010. In this template, there is a footer and a header. When I create a document based on this template, I'd like for some pages not to show them.
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How do I get Realtek HD Audio 5.1 working on Windows 7?
I have problem with Realtek 5.1 driver for Windows 7 x64. I've installed newest drivers for Realtek HD Audio, but 5.1 still doesn't work, the only thing that works is front stereo. However, when I ...
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How do I uninstall Windows 8 Consumer Preview?
Say, for instance, I don't like this Windows 8 consumer preview and that I downloaded, agreed to terms and installed it on my machine. How do I get rid of it?
I want to go back to what I had before ...
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Convert a column into a comma separated list
I have the task of creating a simple excel sheet that takes an unspecified number of rows in Column A like this:
1234
123461
123151
11321
And make them into a comma-seperated list in another cell ...
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Setting an animated .gif as the desktop background on Windows 7
I can't get animation on my desktop although I can set it as a background from the context menu by opening it in Internet Explorer. Here is my .gif created using Photoshop CS4:
How can I set it as ...
14
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The Outlook data file can't be accessed, how do I repair it?
I am using the beta 2010 Office Outlook. When I try receive or send, I get the following error.
Outlook data file cannot be accessed.
Repairing and reinstalling Office and trying to use any ...
38
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How to install real Firefox on Debian?
Debian 6 ("Squeeze") uses a rebranded version of Firefox called Iceweasel. It however lacks plugin support, most of my favorites don't work.
So what is best way to install the "real" Firefox on ...
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How do I connect VLC to a known DLNA server?
I have VLC on my Mac and would like to connect to a DLNA server on my LAN but the server isn't showing up in VLC's UPnP auto-discovery UI. Given the IP address of the server how can I point VLC to it ...
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Disable SMS Syncing on Outlook
I've paired up my Samsung phone with an Outlook Exchange inbox (probably Outlook 2010), and now I've got the outstanding SMS syncing feature. Only, of course, it sucks, since my inbox get's flooded ...
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Why is my USB mouse disconnecting and reconnecting randomly and often?
My mouse will reconnect/disconnect (will even hear the sounds from Windows), and the light on the bottom of the mouse will turn off/turn on as it starts working again.
It really sucks to be playing a ...
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How do I recover a closed Sticky Note in Windows?
By accident, I closed my sticky notes in Windows. Is there any way to recover them?
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How to create a bootable USB Windows OS using Mac OS X
I'm having a trouble here because of my PC infected today and I tried everything to get it back and the only option left for me now is to do a clean install.
Now what happen is I have Macbook Pro ...
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How to reset shortcuts (.lnk file) in Windows 7?
Somehow I went to open a shortcut and Windows couldn't find the target but instead of pointing the shortcut to the .exe it pointed the .lnk file handler to the .exe, so now all my .lnk files are ...
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How to compare two columns and find differences in excel
I have two columns in Excel that I want to compare and find the differences between them.
Suppose
Col A has 50 numbers i.e 0511234567
Col B has 100 numbers in the same format
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How can I take a picture with my webcam in Windows 7?
I know it existed as sort of a folder in Windows Explorer in at least Windows XP, but I just can't seem to find it in Windows 7...
How can I take a picture with my webcam in Windows 7 without using ...
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Where is SVN on OS X Mountain Lion?
I upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion and found out SVN is no longer present. I use Netbeans 6.9.1 in conjunction with Apache's SVN.
How can I get it back and working?
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How to change iPhone backup location on Windows?
iTunes creates quite a big backup directory on my C: drive whenever I back up my iPhone.
Is there a way to tell iTunes to back up the iPhone data to another location?
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How to change some of the numbers in word to be arabic numbers within Word
I have a Word document.
It has two parts: one English and one Arabic.
The problem is that all the numbers are English numbers [0123456789], but I want the Arabic part's numbers to be Arabic numbers ...
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How to mount a HFS partition in Ubuntu as Read/Write?
I plugged in my external harddrive (which was formatted on my Mac into HFS+ journaled) to my Ubuntu desktop 9.04 64bit. I am not able to get the drive to mount with write capability, how do I do ...
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Free webcam software for laptop (Dell 15R N5110)
I installed the Dell Webcam Center software from Dell but it seems it does not support my Dell 15R N5110 webcam or the Windows 7 64-bit web cam driver. I get the following error:
No supported ...
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Where to download Flash Player newest version for offline installation?
I can't find Flash Player download link which will give me the full EXE/MSI file, not the tiny downloader which downloads data from the internet.
What's the proper download site for this?
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How to save a rotated Adobe PDF file
I received an Adobe PDF scan of a document that displays upside-down.
I rotated it inside Adobe Acrobat and chose Save As to make a new document, however, the rotation is not saved and when I open ...
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Remove auto-complete field entries in Google Chrome
Is there a way to stop the gmail address field (on the login page) from displaying all the gmail addresses that you have ever typed in it?
When logging in with Google Chrome or trying to set up a ...
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How do I remove a MyBook's “WD SmartWare” virtual CD from my desktop?
I recently got a Western Digital MyBook external hard drive to enable Time Machine. It has its software installed on a "virtual CD" called "WD SmartWare" which shows up on the desktop any time the ...
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How can I disable write protection in my USB flash drive?
My USB flash drive is currently unusable because it somehow (quite suddenly!) became write protected. I have googled around and tried many solutions to this problem, but none of them have worked so ...
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Find out what the motherboard on my computer is
I want to find out the exact model of my computer's motherboard so that I can see what sort of memory chip, graphics cards and other components it supports.
I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
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How can I repair the Windows 8 EFI Bootloader?
I installed Windows 7 and Windows 8 in EFI mode on a hard disk some days ago. Today, the bootloader got missing/corrupted.
I currently have the Windows 8 installer on a flash drive and tried using ...
