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Avoiding the mess of installing programs? [closed]
I've learned to be very cautious about the programs I install, not so much because of viruses (thank you ESET), but because of all the random junk that programs tend to generate. They create all sorts ...
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VPN services experiences [closed]
I need to protect my web traffic. The problem is that not all sites use SSL. To solve this, as far as I understand, VPN service should be used.
Does it have sense to use VPN also for other protocols, ...
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Are Blu-Ray recordable disks reliable and cost-effective for backups and data storage?
I'm considering moving from DVD-Rs to Blu-Ray Recordable disks to backup my data. I don't have any experience with BD-Rs as of yet, though, and I wonder if it's worth it or I should wait another year ...
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Keeping my Google Chrome tabs always intact
Two days ago I quit my chrome. Yesterday I opened it and used it only in Anonymous Mode. Today I opened it again and my recently closed "21 tabs" are gone from the "Recently Closed" history.
Is there ...
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RAM in MacBook air
I'm looking At buying a MacBook air - most likely the 13" model and unfortunately without spending a lot more money I cant get 4GB of RAM in store. Obviously I can 'build' one on the apple store but ...
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Is there any software to keep eyes distracted from monitor
I have a 19 inch LCD monitor but my eyes are hurting when sitting too much in front of the PC so I used an eye protector software, but it irritates me since it is a trial version, so I cannot edit its ...
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How to change the font in SmartSVN?
Using SmartSVN on my Windows machine, it is not honoring my Windows font preferences (neither font size or font face). They should be doing something like:
void GetIconTitleFont(ref string fontName, ...
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Mac OS X: Managing Windows
So here is my problem, originally I'm a Windows user and developerr, and now I have a Mac OS based machine, I'm developing on Mac OS X as well, but the problem is that on Windows I feel comfortable ...
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Utilities for find & open linux /usr/share/docs?
For example, I can read the manual pages of bash by:
$ man bash
or
$ info bash
But there is also /usr/share/doc/bash which contains other related documents.
When I looking into the docs of ECB ...
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List of Sketchpad Apps for Windows 7 Tablet edition
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad x200 tablet and got it with hopes that I could use it during presentations to quickly annotate my screen and also switch to skecthpad mode to draw images instead of using the ...
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Is it possible to toggle hidden files without relaunching Finder?
There are several ways how to toggle hidden files - via a shell command, or AppleScript, or Automator action, or even a Dashboard widget. All of them close and reopen Finder windows, which is quite ...
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How to make Windows Vista taskbar to appear immediately?
I have set to keep taskbar hidden. When I move mouse to screen edge, it appears. But it is slow for me:) I would like to make it to appear immediately. Any ideas?
EDIT: Only what I found is to ...
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Mechanical keyboard switches: linear, soft, click. What is the difference?
I intend to buy a keyboard with mechanical switches.
Some are available with different types of switches.
Deck has linear and tactile.
Cherry has three different types which are sometimes referred to ...
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Windows XP recovery console locks CD drive, even after restart!
Whenever I use my Windows XP SP2 installation CD that came with my Dell computer to use the recovery console, I have a problem.
I understand that it's a bad idea to remove the CD while the recovery ...
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Does the swf file download to user's PC before it starts playing/How does Flash Files play on user's PC
I would like to know how a flash file plays/loads in the users PC. For instance, if my code is as below -
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" ...
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Anyone try out VMWare Fusion 3?
I'm already a VMWare Fusion 2 user and Fusion 3 (just released here) has numerous features in conjunction with Snow Leopard. I'm curious to know if anyone in particular has tried it out and ...
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How Unix is Mac OS X?
From my limited knowledge: The Unix OS coder assumes the user knows what they're doing etc. versus the Apple's you can only do it the way you are allowed to do it, etc.
Compared to other variations ...
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'Un-select' a radiobutton? [closed]
I have always wondered if there is any way or trick to un-select a radio button once you have selected one.
I'm asking this as a generic question, not regarding a specific program. it could be a ...
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Why is Microsoft forcing users to use non-standard download/installation solutions?
Just now I wanted to download ASP.NET MVC and seen there is now something called Web Platform Installer. The direct link to the installer is however still there.
A few days ago I wanted to get SQL ...
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Which Linux distro has the best combination of customization and ease of use?
There are Linux distributions with varying degrees of user-friendliness. The ones that are the easiest to use are generally the least customizable and vice versa.
Which Linux distribution provides a ...
