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Downloading software without bloatware
From time to time, I find myself needing a piece of software to perform a specific task. Download.com (CNET) used to be a good site. But now, I find that they bundle a lot of "evilware", i.e. bloatware/adware (spyware?). Despite my best efforts to…
Ola Eldøy
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How to view an SVG image on Mac OSX?
I'm working with a bioinformatics visualization tool, which saves a biological pathway as an SVG image.
I now want to view the SVG image... but am having some trouble doing so. I tried opening it as a file in both Chrome and Firefox, but in both…
ktm5124
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How to save a mail into an .eml-file with Outlook?
Outlook Express and Thunderbird both support the .eml-file format. Somehow Outlook does not.
Is there any way to save mails into into an .eml-file using Outlook (e.g. with the help of a plugin)?
Martin
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What does "2>&1" do in command line?
I know that the > sign is used for output redirection in the command line, but I'm having trouble finding something that explains the use of 2>&1 in the command line. For example:
curl http://www.google.com > /dev/null 2>&1 &
Matt Huggins
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Windows using too much RAM, how to diagnose resource hog
I have 16GB of system RAM. On startup with no applications open except the task-manager Windows is using about 3gb of RAM. I looked in the processes tab, but nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. How can I find out why my Windows is using so much…
Vader
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How do I locate the MAC address of my computer?
I am unable to locate the MAC address in a new computer with Windows 7. I've tried ipconfig /all in the console to which I got no items match your search. I also tried getmac. A screen flashed very briefly with what appeared to be the…
Alibarsdad
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What does "Optimize Drives" do in Windows 8?
With Windows 8, there is an option to "optimize" a drive. This looks similar to the Defragment option of previous versions of Windows:
I have an SSD and I know that SSDs shouldn't be defragmented. However, Windows 8 recognizes that the drive is…
Ry-
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How do I replace-paste yanked text in vim without yanking the deleted lines?
So I usually find myself copying text from one point to another while overwriting old text where the new is pasted:
blah1
newtext
blah2
wrong1
blah3
wrong2
blah4
Suppose I visual-mark newtext and yank it. Now I select wrong1 (which could be…
bitmask
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Linux: Continuously synchronize files, one way
Scenario: An IDE is set up on a Linux desktop box, editing PHP files locally. Every time I save a file, I want this change to appear on the linux server where Apache is running. The server has ssh (and samba and nfs for that matter).
As a reference,…
stolsvik
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Using Ctrl-Tab to switch between tabs in Mac Terminal.app
How can I make Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab switch between tabs in Terminal.app on a Mac (OS 10.4 and 10.5 specifically)? This is how I switch tabs in Firefox and Aquamacs, and Command-Shift-[ and Command-Shift-] is too awkward to me. I am aware of…
dkee
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Disable “Ctrl”+mouse wheel zooming in Chrome?
I'm a normal-sighted person and I would like to view pages at 100% all the time. I use keyboard shortcuts that involve Ctrl a lot, so about twenty times a day I accidentally hit Ctrl at the same time that I'm scrolling, which results in the page…
Myer
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Share VirtualBox folders in reverse? Guest-Host?
I'm familiar with the process of installing Guest Additions and sharing host folders with the guest, but is there a way to do the reverse?
I have an XP host and Ubuntu 10.10 guest, with VBox 4.0.2.
In other words, I'd like for the host to have…
Nate Parsons
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What's the difference between a torrent file and a Magnet link?
What's the difference between a torrent file and a Magnet link?
What is the difference between usage, can I use μTorrent to download files from a Magnet link?
waka
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How do I connect VLC to a known DLNA server?
I have VLC on my Mac and would like to connect to a DLNA server on my LAN but the server isn't showing up in VLC's UPnP auto-discovery UI. Given the IP address of the server how can I point VLC to it explicitly so it can be 'discovered'?
fbrereto
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Get current folder name by a DOS command?
Is it possible to get the current folder name (not current directory path) by using a DOS command? If so, how?
The closest I got was this but it doesn't do it:
for /f "delims=\" %%a in ("%CD%") do set CURR=%%a
echo.DIR: %CURR%
note: the above…
djangofan
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