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Why can't cURL properly verify a certificate on Windows?
When I try to use Curl on windows, to retrieve an https url, I get the dreaded "connection error (60)."
The exact error message is:
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is ...
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How to combine data from multiple rows, when certain criterion is met
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I'm trying to massage this Excel document.
It has groups of consecutive rows that are identical
except for the AdminTime column (Column H).
When a group of consecutive rows
have ...
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Optimal Networking Setup for a 2-Story unit? [closed]
I am moving into a 4 bedroom two-story unit. It’s roughly 2,200 sq ft.
I want absolute max throughput possible to be achieved in all focal points. We’re all in internet related industries. Between ...
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Workaround for Dell "Power supply not recognised" issue
I have a Dell Inspirion and the power supply port appears to be damaged.
Basically when I plug it in I get a nice popup telling me that it couldn't detect that its a Dell power supply so it won't ...
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Executing EXE with wildcard from psexec
I'm writing a few scripts that I am using to integrate with bamboo for some continuous integration improvements and I've run into a bit of a snag.
I'm currently trying to run a psexec command that ...
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AMD Vision Engine Control Center (CCC) spontaneously breaks and will not run after that without full reinstall
I am running AMD FX system with Radeon 5800 HD video card, on Win7 x64 system.
I have had problems with Catalyst Control Center for awhile, when it runs and shows a blank white window with nothing in ...
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Why does bash tab-expand a tilde when I am completing a vim file name?
If I type cat ~/.bashr<TAB> then it completes to cat ~/.bashrc.
If I type vim ~/.bashr<TAB> then it completes to vim /home/neil/.bashrc...
(It does the same with vi, which is aliased to "...
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Make dhcp assign same IP and hostname for different interfaces at one machine
I have a feeling that question itself looks stupid but it is not. Please let me clarify.
I have dynamic DNS with BIND and NIS configured at my LAN and have laptop which I am using in both wireless ...
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wifi can not get ip address on automatic
My wifi can not get ip address if set on automatic on my desktop with winsows-xp sp2. I have tried 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.8 all work well giving status " connected and signal strength excellent, but ...
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What stops Word from inserting spaces after a word wrap?
In Word 2007, I have a sentence like this:
1) Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut ...
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Antec 900 fan plugs are not compatible with PSU or motherboard
I have an Antec 900 case, which has two small fans in the front, a large fan on top, and an exhaust fan in the back, all of which have individual power cords/plugs. They look identical to the piece on ...
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Where can I connect this USB 3.0 cord?
My motherboard has 2 USB 3.o slots in the back, where the usual slots go, but the tower also supports 1 or 2 USB 3.0 ports in the front, above the DVD drive. So, there is a cord coming out of those ...
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Do commands in a bash script run in parallel or one after another?
Take the following shell script, for example:
#!/bin/bash
python do_this_first.py
python do_this_second.py
python do_this_last.py
When I run the above, will the 3 python scripts run parallel? As I ...
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explorer.exe hogging CPU, slow folder browsing
My computer is snappy when I log in from a fresh reboot. Within a short while, it becomes almost unusably slow depending on what I want to do.
In particular, any Windows-y actions are slow while ...
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Outlook fails to download any message over 3 MB
My Outlook fails when trying to download any message/attachment which is larger than 3 MB and will not download any more emails until I go into my Internet email account and delete that message. ...
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ubuntu suspend works, but then immediately starts
Having a strange problem after upgrading from Ubuntu 11.04 to 12.04. Previously I could suspend just fine, the computer will switch itself off. Pressing the ON button will switch it on and it will ...
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Sending an encrypted email to a public key
A person I wish to contact, posted his public key as his contact info. I have setup Thunderbird and generated my on key pairs but I am missing something. I do not understand how to use just his public ...
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wget fails to resolve host/node name after 1 file download
I've recently been trying to download a large number of files from a website with wget, and my problem is that once I have downloaded one file, I receive the following error message.
--2012-06-28 14:...
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Can I set vim's relativenumber setting to be 1-indexed?
I really like vim 7.3's relativenumber setting, but it seems to me that it should be 1-indexed. Most line-based commands operate on a number of lines that includes the current one. For example, with ...
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Proxifier disables MetroStyle apps Internet Connection
I'm using Windows 8 release preview. When I install Proxifier (to set my SOCKS proxy), none of my MetroStyle apps can access the Internet (even the ones I develop). So, my question is, is there a way ...
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Gapless video playback software for mac
Is there any gapless video playback for mac?
The idea is creating a playlist of videos and play that playlist in an endless loop but avoiding stopping/skipping/gapping between them.
Thank you
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Can I remotely access a backtrack computer
I have a pc with the latest backtrack version. I would like to place it inside my protected network to perform some pentests and other network diagnostics. However, I would like to be able to access ...
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Word 2007: Is it possible to have paragraph justification in a style?
When I create a style for paragraphs, I can only change the alignment. Is there anyway to add justification to a paragraph style and not do it manually?
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better options for screen?
OK. So I love screen. It has saved my bacon a few times when machines crash or get disconnected from the network. However, there are enough reasons keep keep me from using screen for everything, ...
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What is the difference between the unified cores in NVIDIA and AMD GPUs? [closed]
I have an AMD 6770m (with 480 unified cores) and my friend has Nvidia gt 555m (with 144 unified cores). Hardware wise 555m is inferior to 6770m but still in performance they both are almost the same.
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McAfee failing on update
It seems like I'm experiencing some trouble when McAfee Anti-Virus tries to update. I get the error log listed below:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ...
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How to Make a Plesk Windows server work with external nameservers
I have a Plesk windows server and I want it to work with my 3 existing nameservers. I have configured the nameservers to accept zone-files exported from the Windows server but I do not know how to ...
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Is there a way to pass in a password to the su root -c command?
I'm writing a script that requires root access for HP-UX. I was wondering if there was some way to pass in a password to the su root -c command so that the user would not be prompted for a password. ...
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Ignore autoindent in vim for one carriage return
I am trying to figure out how to map the keys <shift><cr> to ignore smart indention for one carriage return in vim.
Is there an easy way to do this?
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Change cell color based on other cell value
I have encountered numerous questions related to changing a cell color based on its value, which can be achieve easily with Excel "Conditional Formatting". However I'm interested in changing a cell ...
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Why do big gaps remain after defragmentation in Windows XP?
I had the understanding that disk defragmentation in Windows XP reorganises your data so that files are contiguous along your hard drive. Every time I defragment my hard drive, I end up with blue ...
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Run Command Set In Each Subdirectory
I have the following commands that I would like to run inside each subdirectory of the current working directory. Here are the commands:
OUTPUTFN=`basename $PWD`
cat *.xml > $OUTPUTFN.txt
mv $...
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VIM: `t` motion with two or more characters
Assuming a line such as:
grep -ir "$@" * | grep -v "/.svn/" | grep -v "/inc/help/" | head -n 100
If the cursor is at the first | and I want to delete until head, how could I do that with t? I know ...
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OS X Lion working with SMB mounts modifying permissions etc. on mounted server?
I hope this is a Superuser question and not for Server Fault. At work, we use a variety of Linux/Unix boxes. I mount these on my OS X Lion laptop via SMB. I've noticed when I work with files on the ...
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Two per page printing margins in Microsoft Word
I have a document that I created in Microsoft Word. I set up the margins so The text goes almost all the way to the edges (like .2" margins).
The document is oriented portrait style and I want to ...
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Can I mark a folder as mountpoint-only?
I have a folder ~/nas which I usually use sshfs to mount a network drive on. Today, I didn't realize the share hadn't been mounted yet, and copied some data into it. It took me a bit to realize that I'...
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How do I select an entire row in Excel?
How do I highlight all cells in an Excel row?
I'm using Excel 2010 on Windows.
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connect to a headless virtualbox instance in Linux?
I've started a headless virtualbox instance with this command:
VBoxManage startvm "Ensembl67VirtualMachine" --type headless
Waiting for VM "Ensembl67VirtualMachine" to power on...
VM "...
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How could I easily pack a directory to an ext4 loop partition image?
I would like to pack the content of a directory into an ext4 partition image easily, without mounting a loop device.
Background: I am building a version of Android which will mount system partitions ...
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Can I show an analog clock in Linux terminal?
I know that by Linux tmux I can show a digital clock in terminal. But how to show an analog clock in terminal? Is it possible?
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Can an old MacBook be upgraded to OS X Lion?
I've just got a really old MacBook and I want to upgrade it to the latest OS version. I do not know if it supports to be upgraded, the config of this MacBook is as below:
Model Name: MacBook
Model ...
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How to troubleshoot port forwarding on Windows 7 (64 Bit) with ICS enabled?
I want to forward some ports (1666 for perforce, 8081 for Hudson) on my Internet Gateway machine. This machine is running Windows 7 (64 Bit, legal, user-account) and connected to the Internet via ...
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MS Excel: How to count occurrences of items in a list?
I have a list of items that looks like this:
A
B
C
A
A
B
D
E
A
Now I want to count the number of occurrences of each item. The result should look like this:
A 4
B 2
C 1
D 1
E 1
How can I do that? ...
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Not able to install SEP in XP [closed]
Whenever I attempted an install setup is automatically closed in task manager. I think some error occurs in registry but I don't have any registry cleaner. Please advise me of a free registry cleaner
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Rename files and adding a prefix according to groups
Let's say I have files in side a folder named
abc001.jpg
abc002.jpg
abc003.jpg
abc004.jpg
abc005.jpg
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acb999.jpg
Let's say group1 is
abc001.jpg
abc002.jpg
abc005.jpg
abc010.jpg
and group2 is
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My stereo headphones cable is broken, what can I do? [closed]
I have a pair of stereo headphones, I got them on Amazon.
Now, the right headphone stops producing sound. To fix that I need to move/shake the tip of the cable (the one before that part of tip which ...
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How can I change the keyboard layout of another local user?
Is there a way to change the keyboard layout of another local user account, when I'm logged into Windows XP as Administrator?
Thanks!
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Search and replace text and everything that follows in the same line
How can I search for a certain string in multiple files (with a given extension) in a directory and replace everything afterwards (including the search string) with a blank string?
Example
I'm ...
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Contents of network share won't refresh without restart?
We have network shares on a machine running Small Business Server 2008. All domain users have access to this share, and a batch script maps it to the T: drive upon logging into Windows. One user is ...
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git: Delete all tracked files?
I have a directory containing a git repo as well as other unrelated files which I do not want tracked (its my home directory, sorry if this is bad practice--alternative recommendations for versioning ...