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How to make Elo touchscreen working for Linux?
Elo touchscreen model:
Elo TouchSystems, Inc. Elo TouchSystems 2700 IntelliTouch(r)
Problem description:
My problem + others problem with this is that, when i touch-over (mouse-over) the ...
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Why is Adobe Configurator 3 not creating a .zxp file when I `File->Export Panel`?
I have an InDesign Panel I made with Adobe Configurator 3. I have made modifications and I'm trying to intall the new version in InDesign to try them out. The way I used to do this was to ...
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How to make application remember desktops for multiple windows on quitting and restarting
In Mac OS X Lion when you quit an application with multiple windows on multiple desktops, it doesn't seem to remember which desktops they were assigned to on restarting?
Is there a setting to make ...
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Multiple global shortcuts for the same action
In KDE4, I want to be able to change my sound volume both with the built-in Volume Up key as well as Meta+U.
While I can define alternate keybindings for all program-wide actions, there is no such ...
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EGit (Eclipse) wrongly interpreting file names with non-ASCII characters?
I recently switched to using a Git repository within Eclipse (Juno SR2), using EGit. In our project, some file names contains umlauts and other special non-ASCII-characters. On the command line, git ...
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Terminal inside sublime text
A long time ago when I used gedit, I was able to have a built in terminal at the bottom. This allowed me to sftp into my server, edit code, and then compile it in the terminal right inside the ...
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VLC shows all subtitles in italic - and/or bold depending on font
When I play a movie with external subtitles, VLC shows all subtitles in italic - and/or bold depending on font - I tested:
Arial, Times New Roman: everything appears italic, regardless of whether ...
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EFI VMware Virtual SCSI Hard Drive (0.0) … unsuccessful
I installed the VMware-workstation-full-8.0.0-471780 and created new virtual michin with Mac OSX 10.6.6 with 4GB Ram, 1 Processer, 40GB Hard Disk(SCSI) and General --> Guest Operating system : Apple ...
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USB storage devices no longer recognized after installing VMware tools
I installed the VMware tools within Mac. Since then any USB external storage drive that was once recognized is now not recognized. In Driver Manager I receive this message unknown device.
I been ...
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How can I enable readline for PHP 5.4 on Ubuntu 11.10?
I installed PHP 5.4 on my Ubuntu 11.10 PC like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install php5
It's working fine but I don't have the readline ...
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Win key replayed when focus changes from Windows to Ubuntu host
I'm running the synergy server (version 1.3.6) on an Ubuntu 11.10 host and the client (version 1.3.8) on a Windows 7 host.
Whenever I use the Win key on the windows client, they key is somehow ...
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How to reuse/extend etckeeper's metadata engine for git control of non-/etc filesystems, or extend git natively with said capability?
Overview + question
Want etckeeper-like filesystem metadata control for non-/etc, git-controlled directories. Home and web-app directories, among others, are classically sensitive to metadata (file ...
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How to open stubborn javascript links in a new tab or new window?
Some websites use "creative" (javascript?) hyperlinks which break browser functionality, such as the ability to ctrl+click or middle click links to open them in a new tab.
A common example, taleo HR ...
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Is there a single catch-all-features tracked music format?
I have an archive of old(ish) tracked music in various formats - .mod, .s3m, .it and Commodore 64 .sid files.
Is there a single, well-supported, tracked music format with a super-set of the features ...
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What type of TCP connections are counted?
In Windows 7's Resource Monitor, in the TCP Connections graph at the top right -- how are those connections being counted? Does a "listening" state count, for example? Does it matter what state a ...
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How can I get zsh to display international characters properly?
I just started using zsh, and love it. However, I've stumbled upon an annoyance when it comes to international characters:
➜ ~ touch åäö.txt
➜ ~ ls
...
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Tile animated gifs
Is there some way to use imagemagic / montage to tile looped animated gifs (intermixed with nonanimated ones)?
That is, I want to concatenate the animations in space, not in time. I realize that the ...
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Firefox Portable: addons are marked as “not compatible”
I'm using Firefox Portable from portableapps.com, the program is stored in my Dropbox folder.
Everything works OK, except for a few addons, namely: LastPass and URL Alias. When I finished to work ...
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How can I send an email to a 'Company' (or any other field) by default in Outlook 2010?
When you start typing in a name in the 'To' field in a new email the email address of said person will be automatically selected. However, this only works with the contact's First and Surname, is ...
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Outlook 2013 + Gmail leads to many messages in drafts even after it is sent
I've added my Gmail to Outlook 2013 via IMAP. Now whenever I compose an email, if I let it wait for a while, it saves a copy to my IMAP drafts folder. However, when I send the message, the message ...
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How to copy Time Machine volume to another disk using rsync while preserving ACLs?
Recently I had to change my Mac's filesystem from case-preserving to being fully case-sensitive. I did that by using CCC and copying data to another disk, then returning back to newly formatted main ...
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Find processes listening on the wildcard address in `lsof`
Using lsof, I can find all of the processes with a TCP socket listening for connections:
lsof -Pni -sTCP:LISTEN
e.g.:
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
cupsd 662 ...
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Word 2013 can't compare readonly files
I am using Tortoise SVN to work with a repository that contains some documentation saved as Word documents. On my old computer, with Office 2010, I was able to compare with previous revisions. ...
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Bad results converting PDF to EPS on Linux
I'm having some trouble converting PDFs (created by Adobe Illustrator on a Mac) to EPS. I have tried several things but I am wondering if there is a better option.
The following list is ordered by ...
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Is there an easy way to upload the contents of an URL from the file chooser in Mac OS X?
I want something similiar to the functionality on Windows computers.
You can just paste the URL in the open file window and Windows will automagically download the contents of the URL and select the ...
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Finder/Quick Look Malfunction after 10.8 OS upgrade
I upgraded to 10.8 and cannot shake this issue at all.
I process image files daily as part of my work. For some reason only since my upgrade to 10.8, at some point Finder cannot preview any image ...
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Finder 'Quick Look' (space bar) in Mountain Lion (10.8) doesn't display full image anymore…
In Lion and Snow Leopard hitting the space bar in finder on any image would display that image at its exact dimensions or as close as it could get without bleeding past my display margins. Now in ...
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Folder actions on OS X observing all subfolders
I have a folder that I would like to add a folder action to. The action works great when the file is added to the top level. But when a file is added to and sub-folders, the action is not enabled. Is ...
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Multi Encrypted Operating Systems with TrueCrypt
My laptop has a 250GB hard drive, and I currently use it to do a lot. I have Windows 7, Ubuntu 11.10, and BackTrack 5 on it, but I'd like to switch it up and add more security.
What I aim to do is ...
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How do I get Google Chrome v17 to archive all my history beyond 5 months ago?
It just deleted everything before 5 months ago. Ugh
The old versions always archived up the history index files like "History Index 2011-09".
But now "History Index 2011-09" has a very small file ...
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How to change the syntax highlighting style in Meld
Meld 1.5.1 uses gtksourceview (via pygtksourceview) for its syntax-highlighting, however I'm unable to figure out how to configure it to use a specific style (color scheme/theme) from the ones ...
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Why have I had to disable Enhanced Halt State (C1E) for my new CPU?
So, I've just upgraded my PC's CPU and RAM from an AMD Phenom X4 9600 with 2×2GiB DDR2-800 to an AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (the 95 version, HDT55TWFK6DGR) with 2×4GiB DDR3-1333.
The system worked - I'm ...
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Switching active spellchecker language in Chrome using a key shortcut instead of context menu
I am looking for a way to quickly switch active language of spell checker in Chrome. The original way to do is to use right-click on the text field, choose Spell Checking[1] from the menu and then ...
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Disabling or configuring blinking (pinned?) tabs in Google Chrome?
I've noticed with the latest release of google chrome that any of my pinned tabs will start blinking if there is new (ajax) content available. It's mainly Gmail, Reader, Facebook, Twitter doing this ...
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Synchronize music ratings between iTunes and Windows Explorer
I want to synchronize my file ratings between iTunes and Windows Explorer. I have found one utility--Orzeszek Ratings--that synchronizes between iTunes => Windows Media Player => iTunes. However, it ...
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Pidgin and Facebook two-factor authentication
Since I enabled two-factor authentication on Facebook:
Login Approvals
When an unrecognized computer or device tries to access my account:
Require me to enter a security code sent to my ...
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Missing 16:10 resolutions with Nvidia drivers (Can't add resolutions)
I have a laptop with a Nvidia 9650M GT and used the drivers that Seven brought me. It works fine but Metro 2033 tells me that I have to upgrade my drivers to play the game. So I did it.
But since I ...
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Can a TrueCrypt Hidden OS volume be larger than the system volume?
I am trying to set up a TrueCrypt hidden OS with as much space available in it as possible. I have a 100 GB hard drive which I have partitioned into a 10 GB C: drive with windows installed and a 100GB ...
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Is there any file check summing software which deals correctly with deep paths?
I have been looking for software which will checksum and verify/compare NTFS volumes with deep paths on Windows, and failing verification on every one I've tried. I've even tried writing my own python ...
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“Disconnecting” from a RemoteApp
I'm a newbie at this so please bear with me.
I've setup a server with Windows Server 2012 and I have 2 clients (my Laptop and my PC, just to give you the context). I will not demand to access the ...
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Can't access wiki site through any other computers on my LAN
I am trying to set up an internal wiki site for my company. Product info, specs that sort of thing. I have downloaded and installed WAMP Server 2.2 (Apache 2.2.22 MySQL 5.5.24 PHP 5.3.13) as well as ...
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Three-step authentication?
I'm using Ubuntu.
I'm just wondering if it's possible to have libpam-google-authenticator (which lets you log in using a code generated by your phone) AND certificate authentication set up to work ...
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Xeon vs overclocked i7 Extreme for lowest latency
So I'm aware that the differences between high-end i7 and Xeon are:
compatibility with dual socket motherboards,
total L2/L3 cache size
overclocking capability
extra cores - Haswell ...
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automatic latex math preview in org-mode/emacs
I am using org-mode 8.0, Emacs 24.3, Auctex 11.87, in Windows.
I was able to use latex preview functions in org-mode files by pressing ctrl+x,ctrl+c,ctrl+l. However, I think it would be more useful ...
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How to find out which installer package a given exe/dll belongs to
I would like to know what MSI installed a given dll or exe on my system. I know that Windows fixes deleted files if they belong to an installed package. Can I query that information without actually ...
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Only 4 cores showing up in task manager
For some reason only 4 cores are showing up in task manager I have tried everything(almost)
setting and unchecking number of cores in msconfig did not work
using easy BCD did not work
...
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How can I install Microsoft Bluetooth Stack on my laptop
The toshiba bluetooth stack is giving me a hard time to manage and I want to switch to Microsoft's. My netbook uses Microsoft's and I am fine with it. How can I install it on my laptop. I followed ...
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7zip filename encoding problems
I have problems extracting files from 7zip archive with non-ascii symbols in filenames.
I have identical versions of 7z on two computers, which differ only by the system locale. If I compress on one ...
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How do I make CD+Gs from MP4s?
I am trying to find an easy way to convert my MP4 files into a CD+G disc so that I can use them with my karaoke machine.
Is there any method I can use to convert multiple MP4s into a CD+G?
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How to convert 1080p to 1080i video using ffmpeg
I am using ffmpeg, trying to convert 1080p to 1080i. I know that -vf tinterlace should do that, but I don't know the exact syntax of use. Currently I'm trying this:
ffmpeg -i <input file.mp4> ...
