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Can't copy and paste in Remote Desktop Connection session
Is it possible to copy and paste inside a Remote Desktop Connection session?
leora
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How do I remove all i386 architecture packages from my Debian installation?
I added foreign architecture i386 to my Debian amd64 installation. How do I remove it? When I try this command: dpkg --remove-architecture i386, I am told to first remove all i386 packages.
kevinarpe
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Mapping drive letters to local folders
Is there a windows equivalent to the old dos SUBST command?
I want to be able to assign a local drive letter to a folder on a local drive.
I realize that a mapped drive will work (and so far that's the technique I've ended up using), but it doesn't…
PaoloFCantoni
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How to turn off the bell sound in Intellij
How do you disable the bell sound in Intellij.
I am using the IdeaVim plugin for Intellij on Mac OS X and want to mute the sound.
ZenBalance
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My fingers are cold when using my computer - solutions?
I am a programmer and sit at a computer ten hours a day - and even though the rest of me is nice and warm, my fingers are as cold as ice.
Are there any gadgets or tricks to keep your fingers warm while typing/mousing? Gloves do not seem like a good…
Kjensen
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How can I create a URL shortcut in Chrome?
I'm not sure if this is possible, but I want to type in foo, hit enter, and be directed to bar.com.
hookedonwinter
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Can I move hiberfil.sys to another drive?
I am running out of space on my %SYSTEMDRIVE% on Windows. There is hiberfil.sys file that size of it is almost 3GB.
I understand that hiberfil.sys is used for the windows hibernation…
Hamed
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What's the difference between RDP vs VNC?
What's really the difference between the RDP and VNC?
They both provide the same function and features?
Jonathan
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Switching back to last tab on Firefox
Is it possible to switch back to the last tab used (tab toggling)? I often like this behaviour on the Mac OSX when switching between apps with the CMD + Tab shortcut key.
Dashed
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How do I find the encoding of the current buffer in vim?
Say I am editing some file with vim (or gvim). I have no idea about the file's encoding and I want to know whether it is in UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 or whatever? Can I somehow tell vim to show me what encoding is used?
innaM
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How do I clear out the ssh-agent entries (on Mac OS X )?
I'm running Mac OS X, and it appears that after SSHing to several machines, using identity files, my 'ssh-agent' builds up a lot of identity / keys and then sometimes offers too many to a remote machine, causing them to kick me off before…
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Can I disable continuation of comments to the next line in Vim?
In Vim, if I'm typing a comment in a code file, and I hit Enter, it automatically makes the newline a comment, too.
For instance, in a Ruby file:
# I manually typed the pound at the start of this line and hit enter.
# This line formatted itself this…
Nathan Long
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Windows equivalent to UNIX "time" command
So, Unix has a time command that lets users time their code/other things. I was wondering if the Windows command line has anything similar.
Also, I asked a previous question regarding the Linux command line here. Can we do the same for Windows? If…
efficiencyIsBliss
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Avoid password prompt for keys and prompts for DN information
I am using following code to generate keys:
apt-get -qq -y install openssl;
mkdir -p /etc/apache2/ssl;
openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024;
openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr;
cp server.key server.key.org;
openssl rsa -in…
JP19
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I accidentally plugged my USB mouse into my eSata port... it works?
I'm on a Thinkpad T510 and I accidentally plugged my Razor USB mouse into the eSata port not realizing my error because it has been working fine this whole time. Does this seem a little odd?
MetaGuru
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