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The best way to make MacVim's vim (console, not mvim) the default instead of Mac OS X's vim?

I installed MacVim using homebrew. (brew install macvim). If I call mvim from cmd, it opens the GUI MacVim. I would like to make vim call the MacVim's Vim (/Users/user/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim) instead of the system's…
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Can I get split screen in Notepad++ like Emacs?

One of the good points with Emacs is that you can have split the screen so you get two or more views of the same file which allows you to browse around and have a clearer overview of the file. Are there are some plugins or is the same functionality…
starcorn
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Best way to transfer files over a LAN between two Linux computers

I want to transfer files (a music folder) between two Linux computers. After searching for the best way to do this, I've seen that there are lots of ways of doing this. I know this has been asked a lot, everywhere and all the time. The main problem…
jonallard
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What's the maximum speed possible with a USB2.0 drive?

USB 2.0 supports 60MB/s (480Mb/s) transfers. I'm only getting 30MB/s between my computer and a USB drive. Therefore, I'm only getting half the rated speed. What causes the significant difference between the two numbers?
Billy ONeal
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Linux "Top" command for Windows Powershell?

I am looking for a PowerShell cmdlet that can provide similar functionality to the Linux Top app. Something that refreshes at some given interval and displays the process list with CPU % util. I have seen scripts that list CPU % utilization in a…
TimAtVenturality
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How to forbid keyboard shortcut stealing by websites in Firefox

Many websites, especially everything involving rich text editing (this site is guilty as well), steal keyboard shortcuts normally used to control Firefox and make them do something else instead. It is totally infuriating when I press something like…
taw
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Google Chrome DevTools failed to parse SourceMap: chrome-extension

I am developing on Rails5 with jQuery. All of a sudden, this afternoon, I started getting these messages in my DevTools console. It happens even running DevTools under StackOverflow. I cleared cache, restarted the browser with no change. …
Richard_G
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Is "HTTPS Everywhere" still relevant?

HTTPS Everywhere is a browser extension, a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, that automates rewriting requests for HTTP URLs to the secure HTTPS alternative if available. It's apparently been around for…
fixer1234
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Is there Windows equivalent to the .bashrc file in Linux?

Just discovered doskey emacs=emacs -nw $*, but without something like .bashrc, I'll have to type that every time I start a shell, right?
herrturtur
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How do Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V work?

I was always wondering what happens under the hood (in the operating system) when I copy an image (selecting it and using Ctrl+C) into a Word file (pasting it with Ctrl+V), for example.
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What does it mean when my new HDD reports errors at a time that shouldn't exist?

I just installed several new HDDs in a machine and I happened to notice one of them had two errors reported, so I ran smartctl -x on it and got this: smartctl 6.5 2016-01-24 r4214 [x86_64-linux-4.4.0-141-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16,…
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Delete entered password in hidden password prompt (Linux) with shortcut

Is there a way to delete all characters that I entered in a hidden password prompt in Linux? For example, when I SSH to a server, it asks for my password where the entered keys are not shown: $ ssh root@somehost root@somehost's password: Is there a…
bugybunny
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How can I take browser screenshots at a higher resolution than my browser supports?

I need to take a screenshot of a website as it would appear on a very high resolution monitor... say 4000x3000 pixels. My laptop's screen has a native resolution of 1400x768. Basically, I need to simulate having a monitor resolution much higher than…
Joshua Carmody
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How to do networking between virtual machines in VirtualBox?

I have two virtual machines in VirtualBox. I would like to do networking between them. For the moment I have the default configuration on both, but they seem to have the same IP-address 10.0.2.15. I would also like to be able to use Internet with…
Jonas
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Why the heck does NTFS allow invisible executables?

You can hide any file inside of another file just by typing: type sol.exe > container.txt:sol.exe and to run the file hidden file just use: start c:\hide\container.txt:sol.exe But the crazy part about this is it doesn't increase the size of the…
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