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Why can video streaming sites not leverage my 100 MBit LAN-speed?
I am a bit confused about what is slowing down my network and I hope it is correct to ask here and not at "webapps.sx.com", because my issue is not only one with YouTube, but basically many video ...
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Hide initial buffer list in Emacs' iswitchb-mode
How can I configure iswitchb-mode so that it does not display the list of all (matching) buffers until I hit TAB for the first time?
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hyper-v copy from guest os and past to main os
How to setup hyper-v virtual machine settings to copy text from guest OS, and then past it to main OS? Currently I can't do it, buffer doesn't track in between th OSs
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Is it possible to reset the sequence of indices that vim uses for file buffers?
As I open up new files inside vim, the buffer index seems to skip over arbitrary indices. I switch between buffers using b<buffer-index>, so it helps to have sequential indices for sanity/OCD ...
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bash xterm : how to get command line before typing enter
I try to define a custom behaviour of the backward-kill-word function in bash xterm.
For that, I need to catch the command line before validate it.
For instances, if I type sdcds/edfdD sdf/sdf without ...
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vim: number of total buffers
in vim, with
:buffers
I get the number of all buffers
the same with
:ls
, but
how I can get the total number of buffers ?
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How to better keep track of/organize multiple buffers in emacs?
I've been using emacs for quite a few years and (like many people), I haven't quite perfected the art of using it yet. One stumbling block I noticed is that when I have several buffers I'm working on, ...
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Emacs: cannot turn on auto-revert-mode by default
There's this emacs minor-mode called "auto-revert-mode" which automatically reverts the file buffer every 5 seconds.
In my .emacs file I just have the line (auto-revert-mode 1) and nothing else, but ...
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Is there a way to tell VLC to buffer a file on a remote PC so as to play uninterrupted with the channel's average BW?
Is there a way to tell VLC to buffer a file on a remote PC so as to play uninterrupted with the channel's average bandwidth?
I set network latency to high, but I wish there was more I could do.
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Do Solid State Disks (SSDs) have a buffer cache?
All HDDs that I know have at least 8MB or more of buffer cache (I know that it is for increasing read and write performance on Disk Drivers).
However, I'm just curious: Do SSDs have any buffer/cache ...
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Enabling Alt+Tab buffer switching like Windows or Firefox in Vim
How do I set up a buffer switch like Alt-Tab on Windows:? It cycles through a list sorted by last access first? So if I pressed Alt+Tab, I'd get the last accessed buffer. If I pressed it again, I ...
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Does CLCL Clipboard Support Other Languages?
All buffered text in foreign languages does not work - only English. Here is home page.
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Buffer I/O Error while booting from Backtrack 4.0 live CD using Virtual Box
Please I am facing a problem while installing backtrack 4.0 on my virtual box. After assigning a hard drive and booting from the live cd, i am receiving a error message as follows:
Loading, please ...
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How can I increase the ring buffer size of my NIC?
I want to increase the buffer size for network interface card to handle large concurrency. With ethtool I have set the buffer size to 4096 KB. But I want to increase more. Is that possible, and what ...
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Cygwin prevent clearing of scrollback buffers
When running Cygwin in the default cmd.exe window or similar terminal emulators such as Console I've noticed that after quitting programs that replace the entire screen (such as Vim and man), only the ...
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Grouping Emacs Buffers
Is it possible to create buffer groups in Emacs, to better organize large numbers of buffers?
For instance, say I'm working on multiple branches of a software project. I may have opened separate ...
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Is there a setting that will allow vim to remember the column it was on, even if traverses a line who's EOL is less?
Is there a setting that will allow vim to remember the column it was on, even if traverses a line who's EOL is less?
Consider the following lines:
foo bar
foo
foo bar
Say my cursor position is the ...
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Make vim yankings global via a shared text file
In a nutshell, I want the following:
y(ank) actually writes the yanked text to a line in a text file, maybe in your .vim directory
that line is prefixed with the name of the register, so "qyy yields ...
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MacOSX 10.6.7 cuts off stdin at 1024 chars
I've written a little perl script that I invoke as follows:
perl -pe'...' <a
I wanted to copy the contents of the input file 'a' from a web browser (a whole wordpress blog entry, to be exact). ...
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Vim: How to create autocomplete/chooser from entries in buffer?
Found out today that if you press Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-V in Textmate, it produces a cute little "chooser" dialogue in-place that allows you to page through your recent clipboard entries. It looks very similar ...
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Vim. Restore an unlisted buffer
Is there any way to restore an unlisted buffer in Vim and send it back to the list of buffers?
For example:
:ls!
1# "one.txt"
2% "two.txt"
3u "three.txt"
Can I send the third buffer back to ...
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Sharing Vim Yank Register
Is it possible to run multiple instances of Vim which share their yank registers? I'd like to avoid having to yank to the system clipboard with "+y or opening my files in split windows within the same ...
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How to determine the used size of device associated's buffer
when mounting a device without the "sync" option, e. g. by invoking the following:
mount -o async /dev/sdc1 /mnt
a buffer is associated with a device to optimize (speed) read/write operations. Is ...
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How do you increase or decrease the height or width of a vim buffer in a way so that when you hold down the key combo, the size constantly changes?
How do you increase or decrease the height or width of a vim buffer in a way so that when you hold down the key combo, the buffer size constantly changes?
I know CTRL-W < works but it moves it one ...
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Why does Flash only support a single, contiguous buffer? [closed]
Why is it that the video player on Youtube, and any other site that uses Flash for that sake, clears the entire, current buffer if you seek a point in the stream that hasn't been buffered yet? It's ...
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How to log STDOUT of a background process w/o buffering on Mac?
I am running a background process on Mac and have a problem with log update. If I run
someprog > mylog &
then mylog is updated not immediately, but with some intervals - I guess it's due to ...
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Increase linux terminal scrollback buffer size
I'm using CentOS 5.4 servers installed in a VMWare virtual machine with no X.Org server installed, so all access is via command line and the linux terminal. I use Shift-PgUp to view the scrollback ...
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Way in Emacs to do a tags like search over all open buffers
In Emacs, the tags-search command allows a search across files in your tags table.
It would be handy to have a similar search functionality but over the open buffers in your Emacs session.
Does such ...
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Why is buffered I/O maximum twice as fast as unbuffered I/O?
This was a question on an Operating Systems exam I had recently. I couldn't find a real clear answer through Google so I thought I'd ask the geniuses here :)
Two things to take into account: there's ...
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VIM - leaves .swp files after crash
I use MacVim (snapshot 51) to edit a the Python/HTML/etc files in moderately sized project. Every few months my system locks up or crashes, and Vim leaves a plethora of .*.swp files around. When I go ...
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Where can I find a demonstration of a buffer overflow?
Is there a site, or is there a simple way of setting up one, which demonstrates what can happen with a buffer overrun? This is in the context of a web app.
(I've already asked this, by the way, on ...
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How to increase the limit of lines to display in the prompt of SSH?
I'm using an older SSH Secure Shell v3.2.9 (ftp link).
I want to increase the limit to display lines so that it can hold 2000 lines.
How can I do this?
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rTorrent, too low memory usage ?
I want to know from more experienced rTorrent users how to tweak the .rtorrent.rc so that rTorrent will cache disk reading and writing (same as uTorrent does).
I have set the max_memory_usage = 1GB ...
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Understanding buffer/bitrate statistics in Media Player Classic
I understand that the two numbers under bitrate are the average bitrate and the current bitrate of each stream.
But what are the two numbers under buffers? I suppose the second one is the amount of ...
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How to tell emacs gdb to show current code line in the center of buffer?
Using the debugger in emacs is nice: You can step through the code with the next command, and emacs will always show the code line that is currently executed, like this:
int x;
int y;
=>int z;
...
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Does hard drive buffer size matter?
It will be used mostly for backups and data-storage (pictures, movies) which aren't often read
The price difference is 1.5Euros in the case of these two:
HDD Western Digital Caviar Green Power
...
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What is the best Windows Multiple Buffer Manager that supports pasting and custom shortcut keys?
I'm looking for an app that would let me specify a bunch of pregenerated replies and/or strings that I'd be able to paste ideally like this:
by assigning specific shortcut combos to specific ...
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