Peon

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May 29	comment	Any ideas for graphing data with 6 million rows? @SwimBikeRun, yes momobo has the right idea: take a random sample. I updated my answer.
Mar 5	comment	Is it safe to use a 10-Port USB Hub in a laptop? I agree. With 10 ports, I rather have it externally powered than worry about current requirements.
Feb 1	comment	Restore OS X 10.6 Just wanted to add that you can buy 10.6 for $19.99 from the Apple Store.
Jan 12	comment	Backup cd as image or copy files Just wanted to add there is a list of lossless audio format as en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless#Audio .
Nov 18	comment	Stop Windows 8 from converting wallpapers to low quality JPGs Why do you think Windows "jpg"-ify images? It can use png and gif without conversion. But it needs to scale it down to fit the screen if you select "Fit". You are bound to get artifacts with any scale down; if you want perfection, do the rescaling yourself because you can't expect Windows to read your mind or know what you personally think is perfection.
Oct 1	comment	Why does my Windows Explorer no longer refresh itself? This is absolutely not true. I have this issue despite always having UAC enabled.
Sep 4	comment	How to get same resolution with 2 monitors Install the correct driver (or updated driver) for your 2nd monitor at Benq's website. The problem is most likelyy the "Generic monitor" setting.
Aug 12	comment	Visio alternatives SmartDraw 2012 is nearly $200 USD. Not only a close match to Visio but close match in price.
Aug 12	comment	Visio alternatives yEd design is flawed! You can't even create more than 1 line connector originating from a joint on a node. Trying to create a free standing line is painful. I absolutely do not recommend yEd.
May 20	comment	Best practices to alias the rm command and make it safer afaik rm -rf . nor rm -rf .. can't succeed because you are currently in the directory.
Mar 4	comment	Home Backup Solutions Not only that, the question pointed to by "possible duplicate" has been deleted.
Mar 4	comment	Safest snapshot of a failing harddrive? When the hard drive starts running again (and hence heat up), wouldn't water condense on it?
Feb 24	comment	Run X app without a window Arbitrary app? I don't think so. Maybe kill the X server but then some apps will exit because it is considered (and justifiably so) an unrecoverable error. Why can't you just minimize the window?
Feb 14	comment	Chinese input apears after office 2010 updates "yellow" languages? is this a joke?
Jan 27	comment	Best practices to alias the rm command and make it safer Won't work if the user decides to use * . * instead of just *. But still a neat trick.
Jan 27	comment	TLB access in SMT processors @aminfar, AFAIK if the threads are from two different processes, then I don't think that's any different than 2 processes sharing the TLB. Some cpus support sharing (TLB entries are marked to identify the process to which it belongs), others clear the TLB on context switch.
Jan 26	comment	Best practices to alias the rm command and make it safer I agree but most people aren't at liberty to switch to an entirely different filesystem.
Jan 22	comment	Are there ASCII characters that have the same keyboard input for both PC and Mac? @Daniel Beck, in the US, most keyboards have an right ALT key which function as the AltGr key. It is not labelled "Alt Gr".
Jan 20	comment	Are there ASCII characters that have the same keyboard input for both PC and Mac? @Daniel Beck, on Windows if you switch your keyboard to English-United States-International via "Region and Language" control panel, you can enter things with the right (not left) ALT key. For example, ß (alt-b), ü (alt-y), Ø (alt-L).
Jan 11	comment	Looking for an alternative to the Windows defrag utility I found Defraggler far too slow for full drive defrag. My drive is only 500Gb and only 48% full; after 10 minutes of defragging, it was only 2% done.