can i change the color of Photoshop Checkers Board Effect... which is used for the background of transparent\translucent areas...

My MacBook Pro is generally a fast machine (3.06 Ghz Core 2 Duo, 8GB of RAM, 7200RPM hard drive) but VirtualBox 3.2.6 running Ubuntu 10.04 is just too slow compared to VMWare. What can I fiddle with to improve this? Within Ubuntu, I use Eclipse mostly but even booting and GNOME desktop accessorie...

Hey, Every time I restart/boot I have to right click the wireless icon again and click enable wireless, is there any way to have it enable wireless by default ? Regards, Xeross

at what rate does Microsoft Active-Sync transfers data with the Windows Mobile Device...

Is there an AutoHotkey script that can sense if I accidentally hold down shift too long if I start a word with a capital letter? Microsoft word does this automatically, but I would like it system-wide. The script should be smart enough to tell if I'm typing something in all caps or if I actually ...

I've been having an odd problem intermittently every several weeks with my Windows 7 PC. If I put it to sleep, occasionally, when I try to wake it up, the monitor will receive no signal. It seems that it is not waking properly because when it does, the fans spin up to full speed briefly but the...

OFX is an XML format for financial transaction history and many banks, including mine, provide the option to download your transaction data in this format. Unfortunately, they often force you to download a separate file for each statement. I would like to have one file for each of my accounts, ra...

Firefox has the ability to make all cookies session only with exceptions, so you can choose some websites to store cookies and all the other cookies are deleted when you quit Firefox. How can it be done in Google Chrome?

Basically I am trying to write a script that will simulate holding down control and pushing scroll lock twice. I just can't seem to get it write.

Something seems to be up with my friends computer. The desktop (running XP) is hardwired into the router, but it won't connect to the internet. So then I tried to use this wireless adapter via USB that successfully found just about every wireless internet connection in my neighborhood, except fo...

What settings on laptop are needed to get connection from Acer Travelmate 5730G hdmi port to hdmi tv to work. PC monitor works well with the laptop, but no luck with HDMI

So I've never overclocked before, but it sounds like you just change some settings in the bios @ startup and you're good to go. So I got some freeware called CPU-Z and it tells you lots of stats about your hardware. I've got an Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 2.66 GHz But the weird thing is in the "c...

I have been looking to get into that fill in forms for cash type job/business. I have been searching for software that can do the job automatically. I guess some sort of copy and paste I have been told that there is software for everything. I need software that can fill in forms on the Interne...

I want to run just a few applications : browser+ text editor+personal info management apps on the Acer netbook. Is there a benchmark of which linux distro will run fastest?

Hello, I recently updated my ipod touch 2g to ios4. It has been working fine for weeks until recently it has been becoming slow. I have attempted to Shift-Restore with a restore package of 3.1.2 with no luck. I keep getting errors 20 and 3194? i believe. (also 2.1.1 and 2.2.1). I have tried all ...

I'm looking for the best way to centrally administer (and track!) printing for our AD domain. I know Windows Server can be configured to be a "Print Services" server, but it's my understanding that this is simply to centralize queues, and doesn't really do accounting and reports (who printed what...

Ok... I've tried adding the arrayformula thing and some other suggestions, but I just can't get this to work! I know it's my fault... =SUM(F2-(B2:B50)) That's all there is to it... nothing amazing. But Docs only returns F2-B2, instead of subtracting the collective value of the B cells from F2....

I'm using a cross-over ethernet cable to connect a Desktop Windows 7 box, and a laptop running on SUSE 11.2. I want Windows to connect to the internet via the laptop's wireless interface. Windows 7 (eth only) (eth) IP: 192.168.2.101/24 GW: 192.168.2.1 DNS: 8.8.8.8 SUSE eth0 IP: 192.168...

I put a few guest OSes on mybook. So, when I need to do my work, I would power on the mybook and use the VMware workstation to start the visualization. Since I would have to access mybook for a long period of time, and since working inside the virtual OS would cause constant read/write to the h...

I'm a newbie Linux/Ubuntu user. And I tried to compile a kernel as my Dell Studio 1555 laptop cannot be hibernated due to ATI open source graphic driver bug. So, I had to compile a kernel version 2.6.35-rc6 and apply a patch but before doing that version 2.6.35 came out, so I tried to compile the...

MySql WorkBench - Is there a hotkey to run a typed-in query?

I use (and very much appreciate) the excellent hardware monitor package Perfgraph 3; after following the instructions near the bottom of the page on setting up a separate toolbar on Vista, I was left with only one nagging problem: how to prevent stray mouse-drags from resizing my perfectly-tuned ...

I reinstalled Linux mostly because my sound card was no longer being detected. I want to backup my sound configuration in case this happens again.

I bought Macbook pro lately from Cambridge, UK. So I expect my language preference to be set to British English, but when I'm typing in safari it suggests me American english spellings for example: when type Colour it asks me to correct it to Color! How do I change language preferences and dicti...

I'm looking for a simple software to create small video Ads. Like using a stick man to do something, any recommendations ?

how to set up a webserver in a webbrowser to be used in ubuntu 10.04 to transfer files from computer to tfr 2400 receiver

In website terms, hotlinking is the use of a linked object, often an image, from one site into a web page belonging to a second site. The second site is said to have an inline link to the site where the object is located. What does anti-Hotlinking mean? How can a website prevent requests direc...

how can i install yuuguu on ubuntu 10.04 plz help me. i am newbie using 10.04

i wonder what are the advantages and disadvantage of using NTFS compression. i wonder does it slow things down alot?

My Lenovo x100e laptop has a "4-in-1" card reader that's supposed to handle SD/SDHC, MMC, Memory Stick and MS Pro, but I can't insert my SDHC card (a "SANDISK SECURE DIGITAL EXTREME SDHC 16GB 30MB/S"). It enters a bit and looks lite it will fit, but then it doesn't get any further in (and yes, I'...

Is there a version of apt-get on OSX? If not, or it is not recommended, what similar installers are there?

I have a CD that has been converted to one giant ape file (all songs in one ape file). How can I covert this into multiple FLAC files (one FLAC per song)?

Hi, I'm in need of a media server running at home and i'm undecided what to run it on. They main aim is to run something with minimal power consumption. What would be the best option for running it on. I will be running debian on either machine. With either an external hard drive or internal(for ...

My hard drive is complaining it is low on disk space, but a strange thing seems to be happening: Explorer reports 10Gb of available space (on a 120 Gb hard disk), chkdsk in the command prompt does the same but if I use a disk space tool such as SpaceSniffer or WinDirStat, only 50Gb of data is fou...

Hi all I was google-ing for the past day or so, and could not find an easier way of changing the icons for a folder in Windows 7 than the following... The thing is, I have a movie x264 collection, and each movie is stored in its own folder. I would like to change the folder icon for the specific...

I'm going to be building a computer, and I've got all the parts I need. But, I left out the hard drive because I have an old one with XP on lying around. Now, once I've built the computer, and I put in the old hard drive what will happen? Obviously Window's is not going to like it, because it'...

I'm beginning to see some strange behavior in Firefox, and I fear that some data may have become corrupt. Here are the symptoms I'm experiencing that I do not see on fresh installs of Firefox on other computers: 1) Some heavily AJAX-based sites like Facebook and TV.com just stop working... I cli...

Ive already tried psp video 9. Free make, any video converter, and total video converter. But none of them fits my needs. Free make is good. but it the output format makes the video lag. Total video converter is also good but it will take you about 15 minutes, just by setting up the videos if you...

Question: Does anyone know of an EFI downgrade for user on 1.8? I have found a 1.7 to 1.6 downgrade, but once on 1.8 this downgrade no longer works. Background: After upgrading to Snow Leopard, and installing the EFI 1.8 update (as recommended by Software Update), I have lost the ability to burn...

I am ssh'ing into a remote server and then su'ing to root. The problem is that sometimes, I have not paid enough attention to the console message, and I have accidentally typed in the root password at the command prompt (when for example, I had failed to provide the root password correctly the f...

collecting the details for the presentation, so i want to know about this. Thanks in advance

I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed on a Dell C600 and the highest available resolution is 800x600. From my previous I remember 1024x768 would work after setting the colour depth to 16bit, but there is no xorg.conf in /etc/X11 anymore. So, how can the colour depth be changed without a xorg.conf file?

Hello, I have dual boot, and additionally I want to be able to run Windows 7 (that installed directly on hard disk) over Linux (CentOS 5.5), but my processor doesn't support Intel VT (hardware virtualization). I try Xen, but it doesn't work because I think it may use only hardware virtualization....

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Hi The Problem: I want to be able use selected connections in different Location(by Location i mean Location combo in Mac Network Preferences). I mean to be able to find some connection in Network Preferences in different location, in current available location and ideally in new connection th...

hello everyone, recently I reinstalled my windows, after that I checked some of my favourite movies and in all my media players I have transparent yellow line (windows media player, K-Lite, VLC <- last versions ), what may be the problem, do I need change some drivers, need help, thanks in adv...

Is there something like msconfig (Windows) for MacOS X that allows you to add/manage/remove applications that start when you log in? Is this typically done through the application or the OS (utils)?

Some applications look like simple image files (total = 1) living in the Applications folder. I suspect these can simply be trashed directly. Other applications use a more complex installer, setting up folder and files in various places. A good example of this is SpringTools Suite, which puts t...

Hello, I want to share my internet connection on Win7 machine, but I want it to go thru proxy (socks5) which I setup (ssh tunneling). I can work with it on my local machine, setting it in Fx network options, but I want it to be shared like that, thru proxy. there's no option of setting it like...

Hi. I start my firefox with a fixed profile from terminal using: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -no-remote -P UserName It works nicely, but the focus is on Terminal and not on firefox. Is there a way to change this? Thanks!

I have to change the motherboard. New mobo's chipset is different from previous one. Is it possible to simply transplant the mother board and repair the operating system installation? Any hint? Thx Details: OS: Win7 32bit previous mobo: Asus M2NPV-VM, chipset NVidia next mobo: Asus M3A78 CPU...

Hi - I'm working with the terminal a lot on OSX, and many times use multiple tabs. Each time I open a new tab with Cmd+T, the new tab starts in my ~ folder. How can I get it to open in the same location as the tab I'm currently working on? thanks.

Recently, my computer stopped honoring the power saving settings. It stays on all the time, even though I have it set to go into sleep mode after 20 minutes of inactivity. It used to work as expected, and now it does not. I only ever witnessed this behavior before if there were an open "save" di...

I had just set up nginx on my server. I have PHP and everything working okay. Except when I try the URL http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/123 I get redirected to http://_/123 but when I try the url http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/123/ It works just as I want it to. How can I get nginx to treat the slashles...

I've got a laptop with a DVI and VGA output on the back. With everything connected it will only allow me to run 2 of the 3 monitors e.g. laptop display + VGA or DVI+VGA but not all 3. xrandr says I have 2 CRTC's, 0 and 1. The internet says I should be able to share a CRTC if the modeline is the s...

Well, this is embarrassing. I feel like I just realised I don't know a loyal colleague's name after working with them for 10 years. "Hey, er... *cough!*, thanks for that great job you did on setting my aliases this morning..." What do the letters rc signify in .bashrc, .kshrc, etc.? If you know...

Crucial have a tool that when you run it, it suggests the correct memory for you and gives you options based on price and performance. is there anything similar to this for graphics cards? At the moment, I am in two minds whether to upgrade the graphics card my pc came with (4 years ago!) or go...

I have a Linksys WRT54GS and have two machines on my network connecting wirelessly. DHCP is enabled, and is granting IP addresses in the .100-120 range. The one machine is a laptop running Ubuntu 10.04 and it is working via DHCP, IP address .103. The second machine, OS X 10.4, I set to a static ...

I partitioned my hard drive into C: and E: and I redirected all the folders of my "My Documents" to E:, and I also keep my FF profile folder on E:. The beauty of doing this is that now I can make images of the C: partition and restore them without affecting my data on E:. My question is about m...

what is the difference between shader, filter, renderer, thanks in advance

I installed a new drive in this customer's laptop about two months ago. Brand new WD1200BEVE PATA drive. The machine worked well until about a week ago. She told me it was running extremely slow, and it is. I've installed HDTune and checked the SMART status. Everything says the drive is healthy....

Hi All, I have done the following: shell> sudo apt-get install mysql-server-core-5.1 shell> sudo apt-get install mysql-client-core-5.1 Both seemed to complete fine with no errors. I have the following present: /usr/sbin/mysqld However if I try to run this, I get the following error: ...

I do not use Opera much. Sometimes, it shows a dotted line when you scroll down to the bottom of a page. What is that for? Here is a screenshot: About Opera Version information Version 10.00 Beta 3

I am currently running a dual boot of Ubuntu and Windows 7 on my Laptop and now I am trying to connect another monitor for work. The problem is that my monitor (LG W1952QT) works when I boot Ubuntu but does not display and goes right into powersave mode when I boot windows 7. Any suggestions woul...

What options do I have for ripping and storing DVD movies in a playable format? I have several hundred DVDs and would like to back them up, but I also would like to be able to watch them. I have both Mac and Windows machines (also have an OLD machine running Ubuntu but that is an older machine ...

I have been trying to disable driver signing for a few days now and cannot find a tutorial that will work. I have tried both the directions provided here as well as trying to use the dseo13b.exe. Neither have worked. When using the command line way I receive the error; "The boot configuration ...

My vision is this: You open a .torrent file through the app. App downloads it via BitTorrent. App places the mp3 files with your other music. Does this exist? It would have to be jailbroken, as I can't imagine you have that kinda of access to the music library otherwise.

I am wondering whether or not I can install Visual Studio Team Foundation Server on Windows Web Server 2008 R2? This because that's the OS offered by my VPS provider. Thanks.

How do I get unwanted templates into the trash?

I have a gray-scale image. I need to convert gray-scale tones to transparency data in alpha channel using Adobe Photoshop. Say if the area is black, then no transparency. The white areas will be converted to full transparent pixels in alpha channel. How to do it?

I need to re-deploy about 10 windows xp machines in a short period of time. The machines already exist and are lying around, I have been asked to reformat, reinstall and reconfigure them. I was wondering if it is possible to create a vmware virtual machine with all the settings etc, and then cre...

This question has already been asked, but for Windows: http://superuser.com/questions/50726/is-it-possible-to-lock-the-mouse-to-one-screen I am using Ubuntu 10.04 with 2 screens with different resolution. Getting the mouse cursor moving accidentally from one screen to another is really annoying....

For some reason, Photoshop seems to be adding a white border around my image. It's lighter than the background and stands out when viewing the created page. This is happening with two images, using 8 and 24bit PNG and as a GIF (with save for web). Is there a reason? One of the images is at http...

I am running Google Chrome 5. How can I select hyper link text using the mouse with, for example, CTRL or ALT keys?

Is there any application that can block usage to a mac after it has been logged-in for X number of hours? This would be sort of like a "parental" type software.

I'm trying to print just the verbose sections of a cURL request (which are sent to stderr) from the bash shell. But when I redirect stdout like this: curl -v http://somehost/somepage > /dev/null Some sort of results table appears in the middle of the output to stderr: % Total % Recei...

In Firefox, I occasionally need to clear my cache to fix a website. But clearing the entire cache seems like extreme overkill. Is there any way to just clear the one site from my cache?

For example - I see lot many different fonts on webpages. Does the fact that I am able to view them mean that they all are installed on my system? I do not think so. Then, how does my browser render them and show them to me?

I frequently need to open csv files just to have a look at what is inside and what its structure is. I also may need to find a text string and possibly edit a typographical error. I can do this in excel or openoffice calc. I am looking for something that is almost instantaneous. Notepad would wo...

When you create a table in Excel (I'm using Excel 2007) you can give it a name that shows up in the Name Manager dialog. However, the name has workbook scope. I'd like to have a table with a name scoped only to the worksheet if possible (just like named formulas/ranges can be). Is it possible? F...

I have a Dell laptop computer issued to me by my employer with an Internal network card. I am considering upgrading my home wifi network from 802.11g to 802.11n, but want to make sure the laptop will benefit from the upgrade. Is there an easy way to tell if this internal modem supports the 802.1...

I remember there is a way to access a list of all the file associations so you can change them etc. easily (without going to the files of that type and changing it there). Do you know how to access that list? Thanks!

Excluding TortoiseSVN, I was looking for software with a similar interface to Versions, for OSX. The only requirement is that the SVN software runs independently of Windows Explorer, preferably with its own window (ala Versions).

So far I've been pretty happy with my WD Passport. But that one has spend most of its time sitting in a drawer. I need something that will be carried around a lot (in a backpack with a notebook). Can anyone reccomend a model ?

Is there any way to password protect google chrome browser? So that I can do "Remember password" on sites browsing in chrome in a shared computer and others can't access it

The CrashPlan web site states: Once your files are backed up, CrashPlan continuously checks that your files are 100% healthy and ready to restore when you need them. If it finds any problems, CrashPlan fixes them. Does this mean if my hard drive completely crashes, it can restore ...

hope sombody can help me my internet goes very slow at night and my isp provider to me to use netstat to see how many tcp connetions there is there is usually about 30 or more with ether time wait establishedbut i also did this during the day time and it still have about 20 tcp connetions but my ...

I was shipped a Netflix DVD but lost it. Is there any way to stream Netflix "Watch Instantly" without the DVD?

I recently ran dpkg-query -L $package on the same package a couple of times and got different results. The difference is that one file, the one we'll refer to as $file, is missing. In between the two commands I did some mucking around with that package, running both dpkg-reconfigure $package an...

Hi, i have bought a new nokia 5800. It supports only mp4 format files. I mainly have .avi files. Is there any free software available to convert to mp4 for MAC OSX? Thanks

Hello, I'm planning to buy used MacBook, I'm looking for more recent models, but detailed specification is not important. I would like to know what should I especially look at when buying used MacBook? What are common flaws in those models (manufactured 2009/2010)? I don't care about minor damag...

I'm using Windows 7 for quite some time, on several systems. On 2 of these systems, Jumplist Items tend to disappear. Example: Initially, I was able to see recently openend folders in Windows Explorer, as well as pinned folders. Then, these functions disappear, all that's left is the "Windows Ex...

Trying to figure out where all the room on my new laptop went I found over 90GB eaten up by my c:\Windows\Temp directory. None of these files I recognize and many seem to have not changed in months. Does anyone know what these oddly named files (prefixed with TMP) are and if they are safe to de...

Hello superusers After reading, on LWN, the comment [1] to the article "Activities and the move to context-oriented desktops", I have been searching, without luck, for a (libre/free) session-manager based solution for saving the status of some (session-manager-aware) applications, for example, t...

I'm trying to find software that lets me record sound and mouse movements over an existing AVI video. I want something like the annotation done on NFL replays. Anyone know of a program that can do this?

When you press cmd-tab to switch between applications and the icons appear, is there a way to reduce the size of those large icons? I have tried 'Witch' but it can not be customised to achieve the above.. Also, I have tried the plenty of links to mac os x tweaks but none of them mention this ...

I'm using RVM to manage Ruby installs and Gems, and MacVim to create and edit Ruby files. I have a key command in my ~/.vimrc mapped to evaluate a loaded Ruby file and print the output. It looks something like this: map <Leader>r :w! <bar> !ruby %<CR> Within a zsh shell, the...

If I create an .rtf file in WordPad and send it to someone on a Mac, can I assume that they will be able to view it correctly?

One time my sound card was no longer detected and the only way to get it working again was to reinstall Linux. I want to avoid having to do this by backing up important files for sound so that if the sound card disappears again I can fix it. Which directories should be backed up?

I know how to use grep to output a line that matches a string. But what if I also want to output one line above every line containing a matching string, how do I do that?

I'd like to have a webcam in a different room from my computer, and the distance means USB is out of the question. I know there are many wireless cameras, but what I can't seem to find out is if any of them would be recognized by Windows as a capture device (just like a locally connected USB web...

thanks neal for the answer about the trf 2400 webserver but how do i get the user ID and the psw as asked in manual of trf 2400 in and how would i know where the sever is thank you j douma

I am trying to reuse a USB boot drive (Mac) for regular file storage on Windows ... when Windows detects it, it won't let me reformat to anything greater than a 40 MB or so - and this is an 8 GB drive... How do you format the drive back to its original factory state?

I bought an Eee PC 1000, the Linux SSD model, a couple years ago. I ended up putting Easy Peasy (then called Ubuntu Eee) onto it, only to be dissatisfied with the speed. Then I put Windows XP on it, and with a LOT of tweaking it ran sort of okay. Now I pulled it out and dusted it off but I want i...

Hello! Can somebody help me? I have video files with extension MP4 (downloaded from my celular phone) and it appears automatically associated with WMP, in the computer. Anyway it doesn' play correctly, because the sound is not syncronized with the video; Why is that? How can I correct this pro...

How do you partition a USB drive on Windows Vista?

Hello! How can I concatenate or merge 2 or more MP4 files, in a final output MP4 file also? I have tried in the DOS window to use the COPY command (I have read it somewhere) but it doesn't function well.

I have set up a samba shared folder /shared I have created 2 users Jack and Jill, and they are part of the Developers group. Developers have read write and execute permissions on the /shared directory. I have executed chmod g+rws /shared to ensure that the folder group is used and not the user'...