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Does ln -s require you to be in a certain directory?
I want to create a simple symlink to a file.
It works perfectly if I run the command from inside the directory where I want the symlink to be created:
/path/to/link $ ln -s /path/to/file .
But if ...
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Change Adobe Reader's default program for e-mail links
When I click an e-mail address in Adobe Reader X, an Outlook e-mail window opens, even though Thunderbird is my standard e-mail client and assigned to the mailto: protocol.
How can I make Adobe ...
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Are link layer properties on a local area network adapter cached?
I changed the Local area connection properties for my N/W adapter:
Link-Layer Topology Discovery Mapper I/O Driver, and
Link-Layer Topology Discovery Responder
I expect to see changes in the ...
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Where are possible fragments in Excel URLs documented?
When creating links to Excel files it is possible to add a fragment to the URL in order to specify a specific location (e.g. a certain sheet) which should be opened when the link is followed. See, for ...
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How to send multiple magnet links to a separate headless linux machine?
With torrents, we could use w3m (linux) to pass multiple torrent files to a separate machine running rtorrent. This doesn't work with magnet links. We can pass magnet links from Firefox to Azureus ...
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Firefox: how to make tab key move between input fields only, not between links
I recently moved from Opera to Firefox because I tired of Opera's huge memory usage. But Opera's controls is really useful, so i'm trying to make Firefox behave like Opera in many cases.
One of ...
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Firefox - Open specific link in all tabs?
I'm looking for a Firefox addon that will let me open a bunch of tabs like this:
www.website.com/user.php?num=350
www.website.com/user.php?num=241
www.website.com/user.php?num=125
And then click a ...
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tar - Ignore error when link is broken
I backups with tar. How to ignore error when link is broken? I want to follow links if (and only if) they are not broken. --ignore-failed-read doesn't work, tar exits...
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Excel linking cell size to content
I want to link cell sizes to the content
I have custom made some cell sizes for printing but when I run a filter the sizing stays with the row and height not the content is it possible to lock a cell ...
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Link two excel workbook located in different computers
I have two excel workbook
The first one located in one computer (i.e. "\192.168.7.1\Shared\book1.xls")
The second one in another computer (i.e. "\192.168.7.2\Shared\book2.xls")
With both spreadsheet ...
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How to copy a list of links from a page at once on Google Chrome or Firefox?
I want to copy all of the links from simple page of multiupload, like http://www.multiupload.com/B8VA5F2U4U.
As you can see there are some links but the links as they appear on the page are just ...
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Link to image within pdf, and have the image displayed?
Is this possible? Basically, I have a file foo.png. I want to have foo.png displayed at a certain location in the pdf, while maintaining foo as a separate file. So, for example, if I changed the ...
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How can I create my own %FOLDERNAME% links?
For example you can type into the windows searchbar/run window %appdata% and it takes you straight to your C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData folder (on windows 7) How can I make my own links likes this? Also ...
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Chrome handling of ctrl-click on links with target=“blank” (not target=“_blank”)
Sometimes a website will use target="blank" instead of target="_blank" (missing the underscore). When doing a ctrl-click on those kinds of links in Chrome, the browser will open the link in a new tab ...
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How can I grab sublinks of a DailyMotion account on Windows 7?
Following my previous question, the solution seems to be automatically grabbing sublinks under a DailyMotion account. Given any link (for example, www.dailymotion.com/radihoca), I need an automatical ...
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I want to stop logging in as temporary account?
I just recently built a new computer (Windows 7 OS) and have a 64GB SSD as my main drive with a 1TB hard drive as well for other superfluous files and games etc. that just chew up space on the SSD. I ...
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How to create a directory hard link?
I was trying to create a directory hard link (not a symbolic one).
I've tried this: mklink /d /h newfolder currentfolder but it's telling me Access is denied. I don't understand how is access denied ...
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Why does “//” instead of http or https before the actual link work?
I just noticed that I can write //google.com instead of http://google.com and it still works.
Is that some kind of short-hand? Maybe it's something that's built in my browser (Chrome 14)?
Is it safe ...
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What is “ln -L” (--logical) for?
I can read in the ln man page:
-L, --logical
make hard links to symbolic link references
I read somewhere that ln -L could be used to re-link files that were deleted but which are ...
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How can I use a hotkey to access the link address in any browser?
Sometimes I need to copy many link addresses and I would like a hotkey for this. As far as I know there is no browser that supports that out of the box. Is it possible to customize this behavior?
I ...
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Script to catch broken links due to *case-sensitvity*?
I just migrated one of our uses from a Windows-based webserver to a Linux one.
On the Windows-based one, it was case-insensitive, so he could have a directory called "ARTICLES" and he could refer to ...
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Google Chrome fails to open HTML links or files
There are two persons using my computer, so I made two shortcuts to the application, each one having its own argument "--user-data-dir=""" so that each of users has unique settings.
All was working ...
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How do I make a list of all links on a web page (DownThemAll!)?
How can I download the links (not the content in the pages that the links point to, just the links themselves. I'm trying to give a list of about 300 videos to my network admin to unblock, he just ...
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Grouppolicy: users cannot open a new window in iexplore
I was testing a new policy configuration, but now two laptops are unable to open a new window in Internet Explorer. The two laptops have different policy configurations, and on one I was able to solve ...
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How to link to emails in Thunderbird?
I often take personal notes in text files. Sometimes I'd like to refer to an email in one of my IMAP email boxes. Now I manually write something like "email in <imap_account>, <date>", but ...
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Keyboard shortcut to open selected link in Yahoo Messenger
In Yahoo Messenger, how do I open the selected link in a browser, by using only the keyboard, not the mouse?
I'm able to use the Tab key to select links, but pressing Enter, Shift+Enter, Alt+Enter ...
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How to generate a link for file in DropBox application? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you get a public link to a file in Dropbox that isn't in a public folder?
How to get a link for file in DropBox folder so I can use it for sharing on the web?
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In Word 2010, can I hide or show a section of the document whenever the user clicks a hyperlink?
I'm trying to make a document that is mainly comprised of a list.
Each list item summarizes the contents of a linked Excel spreadsheet that is currently attached at the end of the document; what I'd ...
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Why goo.gl Shortened Links Redirect To Malicious Websites? [closed]
I have noticed this behaviour recently and because of my shortened links that i have posted on one forum, i was declared as spammer and banned. How come link shortening service of such big company be ...
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How is the “AppData\Local\Application Data\” directory linked?
I deleted "AppData\Local\Application Data\" from my profile and I want to create the link again. My problem is that if I create an mklink to %localappdata%, it behaves differently than the original:
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Open links in Outlook from one domain in Firefox, the rest in IE
Is this even possible?
We are packaging a Firefox bundle to handle links to Salesforce.com
We'd love it if links in Outlook to Salesforce.com could be opened in the Firefox bundle, while keeping ...
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Force hyperlinks on any page I browse to be underlined
There are a few websites I use that have a lot of links, however, they have it set up so the links are not underlined. This is driving me bonkers and me and my coworkers are having a heck of a time ...
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Why do certain links not open in new tabs in Firefox?
In Firefox 6 (beta) on OS X 10.6.7, I Cmd+click to open links in new tabs. This almost always works. However, I've noticed that with certain links, the new tab opens properly but the current tab will ...
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Change many symbolic links at once?
I have about 40 symbolic links in a directory that look like this:
lrwxr-xr-x 1 anna staff 45B 22 Jun 11:20 menu-bg-left.jpg -> ../../../../../hg/www/images/menu-bg-left.jpg
lrwxr-xr-x ...
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Confluence: How do I create a link that contains special characters?
How can I add a link to
http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4j/com/ibm/icu/text/MessageFormat.html#format(java.lang.Object[], java.lang.StringBuffer, java.text.FieldPosition)
to a confluence page? The ...
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Using lynx/links/elinks to correctly display a websites Cyrillic characters
Been struggling finding an answer on this topic for a few days now, I"m just curious as to how one would go about forcing either the shell (putty) iself, or the text-browser links to output Cyrillic ...
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copy link only in command window (Windows command prompt)
I would like to copy a file as a linmk to a diffferent directory is it possible in the command window to do that?
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Linker (ln) error: can't find certain files
I'm building something from source and I get the following output while running make:
...
CC libpromises_la-mod_outputs.lo
CC libpromises_la-unix.lo
CCLD libpromises.la
CC ...
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Google Chrome links now appear as crossed out not underlined why?
Since Sunday when I use Google Chrome links now appear as crossed out not underlined why? They still function but I have no clue how this has happened or how to change it back. Is not problem when I ...
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How do I tell Firefox to allow the opening of local file links only from specific websites?
In particular we have an Enterprise wiki at work where I would like to link to local UNC paths but Firefox prevents me from opening these directly.
I have seen the LocalLink Firefox Add-On but that ...
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Accidentally clicked a link which might have been malicious. What should I do? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What to do if my computer is infected by a virus or a malware?
The link came as a spam, so I expect only bad things from it.
I quickly closed the tab before it fully ...
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Update Links message from MS-Excel
I have an MS-Excel Workbook that links to another for data. The links update when the book is opened, but I still get this message "This workbook contains one or more links that cannot be updated." ...
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PDF ebook link is not working while viewing it in Mobile
I created a small ebook in MS Word and published it in PDF. The ebook has some internal links for navigation, It worked perfectly in all browsers but when I viewed it through mobile the links are not ...
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When would creating a hard link be useful?
There are basically two main limitations with hard links:
Hard links normally require that the link and the file reside in the same file system.
Only the superuser can create a hard link to a ...
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Legalities of downloading videos from YouTube [closed]
I was asked by my boss to incorporate "downloading form youtube" into my android app, while I have tried to explain to him that it is illegal, he repeatedly claimed that he has done it before, and by ...
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How do I find circular symbolic links?
I'm working on a HP-UX system and I want to find if there are any circular symbolic links.
So far I'm using the command:
ls -lrt `find ./ -follow -type l`
But it's only doing ls -lrt on current ...
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How to ALWAYS link an image in MS Word 2010 instead of embedding it?
I want to only link, not embed, pictures in my Word document. Yet I got a lot of images to insert!
And I want to spare me the additional click into the dropdown menu one and for all, so the question ...
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Output all links from website
I've read related questions, but haven't get answer.
I need to download all images from a simple html site. It has a lot of pages. I'm going to grab all images links from all pages (then I'll download ...
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The Pain Of Watching Non Geeks Use Computers clip [closed]
I'm sure everyone here remembers seeing this comic on reddit: The Pain Of Watching Non Geeks Use Computers about the pain of watching a non computer savvy person search.
I remember seeing a great ...
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Problem executing a linked shell script file in putty
I get a "not found" error when executing a linked shell script in putty. The link is valid and works when executed from windows telnet.
