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What is the difference between Symbolic Link and Shortcut?
What is the difference between a Symbolic Link and a Shortcut?
deepthi tm
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How to remove executable bit recursively from files (not directories)
When I plug-in an USB stick (FAT) into my Mac or Ubuntu machine, all files have the executable bits set. After having copied the directory structure to my hard disk how do I remove the executable bits recursively just from the files and keep those…
Mike L.
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Docker on Hyper-V vs WSL 2
I'm using Docker Toolbox, recently I got to know about the Docker installation using WSL 2.
What are the differences between Hyper-V and WSL 2? Which has better performance?
Vinod Sai
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have Powershell get-childitem return files only
I'd like to use get-childitem recursively, but only have it return files not directories. The best solution I have just doesn't seem natural:
gci . *.* -rec | where { $_.GetType().Name -eq "FileInfo" }
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Windows 10 deletes lots of tiny files super slowly. Can anything be done to speed it up?
I work with tens of thousands 20 kB JPEG files in batches which add up to gigabytes. When I try to delete an old batch, Windows 10 has a very low delete rate which sometimes even drops to zero for some reason:
Is this just a fact of life for the…
Kagaratsch
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Why do people use GPUs for high-performance computation instead of a more specialized chip?
From my understanding, people began using GPUs for general computing because they are an extra source of computing power. And though they are not a fast as a CPU for each operation, they have many cores, so they can be better adapted for parallel…
Plutoro
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How can I view results of my cron jobs?
I see so many guides on how to run crontab, but what I need right now is to learn how to
Find log files about cron jobs
Configure what gets logged
Zombies
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How to extract subtitle from video using ffmpeg?
I am trying to extract subtitle from video as .srt file, I used the following command:
ffmpeg -i mytestmovie.mkv -vn -an -codec:s:0.1 srt sub.srt
But, I got an error as Unrecognized option codec:s:0:1
So, can you tell me the exact command and how…
vijay
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What are the differences between H.264 Profiles?
I was rendering a video in After Effects CS5 and when I was formatting it I chose the H.264 codec and in that format, it had a profile with Baseline, Main and High.
So I did a little test – rendering both files with Baseline and High. The only thing…
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How does the Windows RENAME command interpret wildcards?
How does the Windows RENAME (REN) command interpret wildcards?
The built in HELP facility is of no help - it doesn't address wildcards at all.
The Microsoft technet XP online help isn't much better. Here is all it has to say regarding…
dbenham
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Remote desktop use two out of four monitors
I've recently upgraded my home workstation and now have four monitors on it. I work remotely most of the time and need some way to get remote desktop onto only two of those four monitors.
The top two monitors (monitors 4 & 3, going from left to…
William Gant
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Deleting a specific URL suggestion in Chrome
In Firefox, I can use Shift+Delete to delete a single item from the URL history (the URL suggestions).
How can I delete a specific mistyped URL item (only one) from the history in Google Chrome, so it won't show up as a suggestion?
takeshin
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What is the equivalent of Linux's "~" (tilde) shell expansion to home directory in Windows?
In Linux, we can go to the user home by entering the tilde (~) character after cd:
cd ~
How to do the same in Windows?
Each time, I need to type:
cd C:\Document and Settings\freewind
That's too boring.
Freewind
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How should I set the PATH variable on my Mac so the Hombrew-installed tools are found?
Trying to set up Homebrew on a new Mac (on previous Macs I would install packages from source).
The first package I tried to install was Git:
$ brew install git
Installation went OK, but which git still shows the one in /usr/bin/git that came along…
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Why does chown report "Operation not permitted" on OS X?
I am trying to do the following on my Mac (10.6.7):
sudo chown myusername:wheel ./entries
but Unix/Mac is returning "Operation not permitted". When I ls -lash the culprit file, it looks as follows:
8 -rwxrwxrwx 1 myusername staff 394B Apr 26…
josef.van.niekerk
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