GNOME has an option "desktop is home dir" (under Nautilus preferences in gconf-editor). When this is enabled the folder /home/me/Desktop is not used, instead the files which show up as icons on your desktop as the contents of /home/me. Is this possible on Mac OS X? Thanks.

When having the window split vertically how do I split the window horizontally with a new buffer so that the new buffer ends up on the bottom and takes up the full width of the window: Start here: |---|---| | | | | | | | | | |---|---| End up here: |---|---| | | | |---|---| | ...

Hi, I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and I do some dev with it. As I open FF, Chrome, Eclipse (Zend Studio 7.2), etc. and do some work, then leave, screen saver goes on, and when I come back a few hours later (the computer has been running for about 1 day in total), the SWAP gets used intensively. I have...

HI, I have a "old" system with Windows 7 installed. Now I have a new mainboard and a processor. Is there a way I can use my "old" hdd instead of reinstalling windows 7 again?

I'd like to write a script that does an administration task, and I would like to be able to run it either from a terminal or not. If it runs in a terminal, I'd like it to ask for the password using sudo. If not, it should use gksudo. Any solutions?

A friend brought a new Toshiba laptop. That came preloaded with Windows 7 (x64) and Office 2007 Student Edition. He tried a key and it came with a prompt "They key entered is invalid". He, in his enthusiasm, entered a key which he found in the Net and now the software comes up with this messag...

Randomly this morning when I turned on an old laptop, the backlight came on but nothing came on screen. Okay, thats weird, but I wanted to see what would happen. So then the lubuntu login screen came up, and the entire screen is a bunch of light blue vertical lines, the same color as the login sc...

I'm using Macmail (on OSX 10.6) and when I send an email to users on PC Outlook, with an attached image, they get the email as an image embedded into the body, not as an attachement. I even tried clicking "view as icon" before sending the attachment from Macmail, but that made no difference. I a...

I want to down convert my KeePass .kdbx file to a .kdb file because I want to be able to open it with KeePassX (OS X version), which only supports .kdb I haven't been able to find a solution yet.

How to create a word 2007 document with a Sidenote column? I want a column to be fixed throughout the whole document. The problem with page layout> columns > right, is that text from the main column will flow onto the right column, much like a newspaper's layout. Is there a way to keep the right ...

I have a monitor mounted to a wall, and I want to display information in a slideshow-like fashion, but would like to be able to put different types of continually updated content on each slide like: Weather information RSS Feed content The latest news Is there any software that will do this?

Is it possible to play/pause a movie just by clicking on the window? I really miss this feature from Media Player Classic, but from what I could find, it's not possible in VLC.

Is this possible? Easy enough to achieve with AppleScript, but I don't want a separate launcher in the dock.

Hi, I'm having a problem setting up home group. My home sever pc (win7 Home Premium) connects directly to the internet, I shared it's internet connection to one of its ethernet (lan) cards which is then plugged directly into the WAN port on my wifi router using a cross-over network cable. All the...

So, I'm by no means a Linux novice, and I've used a lot of minimalistic and lightweight software (read: the stuff arch linux users use, then laugh at you for not using). One thing I've never tried is a tiling window manager. I've done a fair amount of research on them, but they all have a lot of ...

I have a new HR/Payroll system (SQL 2005 back end) that's hurtling toward "Go Live". I'd really like to find a DB access monitoring solution that will keep tabs on internal access (domain admins and SAs specifically). Encryption isn't really an option. The threat of logging should be enough to k...

I wish to back up DVDs to MKV files, keeping the video in its original MPEG-2 format so as not to lose any quality, often with multiple audio tracks (the original and any commentaries) and all subtitles available on the DVD. What is the best way of doing this? So far it seems Handbrake comes cl...

This is an image of a blackboard: http://www.psdgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/blackboard.jpg I would like to reduce its height while its width, and all its four wooden borders (top, bottom, left, right) should stay unchanged. Could anyone kindly suggest how this can be done in Photos...

Suppose I have a system with 8 gigs of RAM. I have used systems with less than that including physical RAM and virtual memory. So, why not just disable virtual memory on my monster machine? Wouldn't that improve performance? Or is there some reason to continue using virtual memory?

I have added an RSS feed to Apple Mail. How can I retrieve the URL for the feed?

I've recently connected an EeeBox 1501 to my LCD TV in order to utilize the computer as an HTPC. If I switch off the TV or just change the input source, after turning on the TV back on or switch back to the PC's HDMI input, there's no picture. The computer runs Windows 7. My previous HTPC, an A...

I have recently discovered Tiddlywiki and I plan it to use it a as personal document manager. I found a few adaptation of TiddlyWiki http://tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Category:Adaptations and am not sure which one would best suit me. I would like to know your favorites for the jobs.

My new USB audio speaker appeared as the second device in Alsa. I managed to make it the primary one: $ cat /proc/asound/modules 0 snd_usb_audio 1 snd_hda_intel By adding there lines to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf: options snd_hda_intel index=1 options snd_usb_audio index=0 Now, when ...

A colleague is getting strange behavior from Outlook 2007. She wants to create a signature block for her e-mails. She goes to Tools -> Options -> Mail Format tab and clicks to create a new signature. The box never appears. She's reinstalled Office 2007 twice, and it still doesn't work. Any...

MSysGit installs a context menu item that opens a Git Bash prompt at the currently selected folder; however, this opens a cmd.exe window and I would like it to open in Console2 instead. What modifications do I need to make to get this working? Note, I have seen this related question, but the an...

Hi! I'm trying to find files in Windows7 that have a parenthesis in the file name. However, when I type ( or ( or "(" or "(" I get either nothing or every file. Microsoft's "advanced query syntax" reference for desktop search mentions nothing about this. What gives? Thanks in advance for...

Hello there can you please answer my question in following link if you have any idea. much appreciated. http://superuser.com/questions/126121/how-to-create-my-own-certificate-chain/172521#172521 regards Reza

Obviously I understand that running Windows natively on the hardware is faster than using any kind of virtualization software. On the other hand when using Parallels or Fusion I can use both Mac and PC applications side-by-side. Since there have been quite some innovation in the area of virtuali...

Latley I've composed my new computer. But I have often a problem with the following scenario: -> after turning on computer, the system (win 7 professional x64) is not getting up (I see a black window) -> I restart my computer and select the boot in normal mode option -> the system is getting up a...

Is it possible to synchronize the playback of VLC on two different machines? I'd like to have two PCs in different parts of the house play the same video - so any other suggestions that would solve this problem are also welcome!

Hi, Is there a way to get Windows Experience Index Rating (the one shown in Windows 7) on a Windows XP machine ? Michael

I have bought a Wayteq N470 gps device without navigation software. Underneath it runs an OS based on WinCE. The main interface doesn't allow me to run any software (no file browsing), therefore I can't install my navigation software. How can I procceed? How can I install software on a crippled p...

Anytime someone tries to send me files over YIM or AIM when I am using Pidgin on Linux, it fails, telling me that they cancelled, and telling them that I cancelled. Is there some sort of checklist for these issues?

I suppose that there are every day new viruses detected, that it is hard for the software companies to keep up. As a consequence there has to be a significant amount of any kind of malware, to which I simply refer to as viruses, to stay undetectable for a while. Will someone ruffly estimate or gi...

hey there are times when i need to disable my keyboard for a while to avoid unnecessary keystrokes which are quite likely to happen... like we can disable touch-pad of most lap-top then enable it again, i was wondering is there a tool for which provides the functionality the same functionality ...

I am running WAMP server and Windows-7. This seems to be a Windows-7 specific issue, because this did not happen in either Vista or XP. Whenever I have Firefox already running (such as from a shortcut) and then I try and open the phpMyAdmin link from the taskbar menu, I get a “Firefox is already...

I created a script called blueBoxT for starting and stopping Oracle and placed it in the /etc/init.d directory. #!/bin/bash echo "blueBoxT $1 - `date '+%Y%m%d%H%M'`" >> /root/blueBoxT.log case "$1" in 'start') echo "Starting Oracle" su - oracle -c "/home/oracle/startDBT" ;; ...

Running GP10 as a Remote Application in Terminal Servers (W2K8). The multi-analysis tool requires ODBC credentials, when it executes against the database, to build the data cube. Unfortunately, being a remote application and not a remote desktop connection - these modal popups are not coming to...

All I see in iCal's dictionary are display, mail, sound, and open file alarms.

The x6 is about 180 USD if I am not mistaken. The Xeon that is closest in price is the Xeon E5405 Quad Core - 2.0GHz about 250 USD. The x6 has more cores, higher clock and costs much less. Will there be any benefits of getting the Xeon for a web hosting server? Will the performance be better? ...

When I'm on the road, I occasionally VNC to my wife's home computer (Win-XP). I do this by having her start up a PuTTY ssh session which establishes a reverse-tunnel for VNC and SSH and connecting back via VNC and/or SSH through the tunnel. It often happens that if I move or attempt to minimize ...

Are there vendors/systems builders out there that still make media centers based on windows 7 that are suitable for use in the living room (e.g. not a loud PC tower case, etc)? Several years ago, HP used to make some media center PCs, but it appears not anymore. I'm looking to use this with dig...

Is there any decent alternatives to Craigslist for local classified ads over the web thats also free?

If I'm inside gnome in Ubuntu 10.04 and I open up a terminal and type "sudo restart gdm" I get back to the login screen. When I log in however all the toolbars are missing. If I maximize a window then it only maximizes up to where the toolbars should be. It's like the toolbars are invisible. How ...

I have an issue with an old laptop I'm trying to fix up. It has an issue with the wireless. Here are some of the things I know or have tried: Repair option in network settings results in "Unable to renew IP address." Disabling/re-enabling the connection does nothing. The router is a Verizon Ac...

In Thunderbird, for my e-mail account setup, I see Server Settings: Connection Security: STARTTLS Authentication method: Normal password Other choices for Authentication are: - Encrypted - Kerberos - NTLM What are the advantages of using Encrypted? (I thought STARTTLS was good enough)? Wh...

My system is showing everything in Russian. How can I change it back to English or German? I have Windows XP sp3.

Hi, Is it possible to lock a written file in Open office Writer permanently? Giving it a "read only" status for ever? Thanx Nina

My Windows Vista machine has no games on it, I thought Microsoft had dropped the free games, however my wife’s Windows 7 machine has games on it. What is going on?

My pfSense router is equipped with wired network card (LAN) wired network card (WAN) wireless network card Is it possible for pfSense to be multi-homed to the internet using both the WAN and the wireless adapters? This will of course require the wireless card to access an external wireless ac...

My pfSense router is equipped with wired network card (LAN) wired network card (WAN) wireless network card Is it possible for pfSense to be multi-homed to the internet using both the WAN and the wireless adapters? This will of course require the wireless card to access an external wireless ac...

Okay--I have an Intel Mac mini (Core Solo) that has a single DVI video output. I've put it in a situation where it can be used both as a desktop with a regular flat panel monitor and as an STB for a gigantic HDMI TV. The idea is that it'll normally just be plugged into the monitor, and when we w...

Is there any way to open openoffice.org documents inside vim, especially if it will preserve the formatting?

Hey everyone, I have a worksheet with a series of rows A1 - H1 etc and a drop down list which lives in H1, I would really like to change the cell styles of all the cells between A1 - H1 based on the value in H1. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've had little success with conditio...

Step 1) I have what seems to be somewhat of a complex situation. I am using Excel 2007 and have a workbook that contains two worksheets one is called payments and the other is called creditors. The creditor worksheet is the data input sheet that contains a list of several hundred creditors. The...

I'm currently using Windows Media Player 12 on Windows 7 Ultimate. I was using iTunes, but since I got my Android phone, I got rid of my iPod and uninstalled iTunes. I'm trying to do things like keep music organized in the form My Music/Artist/CD/## - Song.mp3, but Windows Media Player is "forget...

I have a stack of MiniDV tapes from an age old video camera and want to import the videos. Right now I'm using VirtualDub and a capture card to import the raw data. What 2 formats (and settings) can anyone recommend (and respective software) for the following requirements? An editable format S...

is it possible to install software from within a *nix system on a windows box, by letting WINE (is not an emulator) write to the windows own registry and use that software under WINE aswell as windows (xp).

I'm searching for specific files on a Windows 2003 server directory that contains thousands of files. Right now I'm using find: find . -name \*STRING\* But it's still not very fast. Is there a way to make this more fast/efficient?