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  • some keys don't appear in xev

    - by sazary
    i can't change my screen brightness by pressing brightness keys on the keyboard, but they change through /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness. so i started to diagnose the issue, ran xev and trying to see what happens when i press Fn+F5 or Fn+F6 which are brightness controls, and xev didn't show anything. i must note that it notifies my when i press volume controls, for example. are F5 and F6 keys working? yes, but not when i press them with Fn key. do i have any entry in xmodmap for brightness? yes: keycode 232 = XF86MonBrightnessDown NoSymbol XF86MonBrightnessDown keycode 233 = XF86MonBrightnessUp NoSymbol XF86MonBrightnessUp what's happening? and what should i do to correct it? i'm using vaio s series laptop with kubuntu precise on it. thanx ;)

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  • windows 8 on macbook locks after 2 mins despite high performance settings

    - by Mark
    I am running my Macbook Prop as a Windows 8 machine using bootcamp and for some reason, when I leave the keyboard/mouse alone for 2 mins it locks the PC (i.e. goes to the lock screen). I have (of course) checked the power settings and I can assure you that it is not set to these settings. I did notice that when I added my work's Mail Account the computer asked me to accept some group policy settings, which I did, so I suspect that this is a group policy setting, but I cannot find it. Can someone help? P.S. I have searched these forums first, and this is different to the PC going to sleep once locked, this is locking while logged in after 2 mins. Thanks.

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  • Resize windows command line prompt?

    - by Yuval
    Hi, I'm working on a Windows xp machine. I wrote a program in assembly that outputs some text, and am trying to create a screenshot of the command line output (start-run-"cmd"). The problem is that the text initially printed by the program gets pushed up by later text and I cannot scroll to it. I tried playing around with the width and height under properties = layout but it seems to resize the window itself (the borders) without resizing the textarea inside the window (text does not have more "room", but the window is bigger). Does anybody know a workaround/solution for this? Thank you!

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  • Linux cannot alter partition table of main hard disk of my laptop

    - by djechelon
    I run openSUSE 12.2 on my ASUS N76VZ laptop. My problem is that I cannot alter the partition table of first hard disk /dev/sda1. YaST partitioner says it's unreadable, but actually it can read it but not alter it. It doesn't tell me anything else, except that I can wipe the partition table (having to reinstall Windows for the third time). Since I want to create new partitions on that disk, how do I fix the partition table layout? I could create new partition from Windows Computer Management and format them in Linux. I could do this, but it doesn't explain the problem

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  • How to clean this Dell Precision M6400

    - by Daniel Pratt
    I have (well, ok, my employer has and I use) a Dell Precision M6400 notebook. It's a decent piece of hardware, but I have at least one major gripe: It's a dust and...uh...crumb (I repent! I repent!) magnet! And I cannot seem to exorcise the dust/crumbs from it! There is a strip of metal above the keyboard that is punched full of tiny holes. Well, maybe it's better to describe them as 'pits'. If a sufficiently small particle finds its way into one of those pits, there is only about a 50% that I will manage to get it out. Consequently, there is now a chorus of tiny little particles silently chiding me about eating cookies a cracker whilst I browse the intarwebs. Does anyone have any suggestions about how I could remove these particles from this machine...while still preserving the function of the machine?

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  • Computer not booting, black screen, no beeps

    - by Michael Gaddass
    I bought a pre-owned computer on Ebay. It booted fine, had to reset due to it not detecting USB mouse, but it detected the USB keyboard. Booted fine again, then I tried to install Ubuntu Desktop, when it was installing I got a phone call, when I'm answering it, I find a Blue screen of Death. I reboot the computer and nothing, no BIOS boot, no beeping, but one of the fans was on. I opened the cover and found a large amount of dust, removed it, still not booting. I'm a complete novice with computer repairs, the most advanced thing I did was take a 286 harddrive and replace a 486's damaged harddrive with it (put the drive into the 486 that is), what could possibly be causing this?

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  • Any way to get back Chrome's Dialog box for cache clearing instead of the new tab?

    - by Stuart P.
    As of today's release of chrome (Tuesday, March 8, 2011) on both Mac & PC the settings are now in a tab (chrome://settings/advanced), needless to say when you're clearing your cache very frequently (cmd-shift-delete on mac, cntl+shift+delete on PC) it's quite tedious going back and forth in tabs. The click & clean chrome extension doesn't have a mac counterpart (plus I like the keyboard much more than the mouse). I've searched and have yet to find a way to get a dialog box instead of the new tab.

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  • Debian Squeeze can't install php-pear

    - by Lennier
    I use Debian 6.0.6 sudo apt-get install php-pear results in: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: initscripts : Breaks: console-setup (< 1.74) but 1.68+squeeze2 is to be installed Breaks: initramfs-tools (< 0.104) but 0.98.8 is to be installed Breaks: nfs-common (< 1:1.2.5-3) but 1:1.2.2-4squeeze2 is to be installed keyboard-configuration : Breaks: console-setup (< 1.71) but 1.68+squeeze2 is to be installed klibc-utils : Breaks: initramfs-tools (< 0.103) but 0.98.8 is to be installed E: Broken packages How can i solve it?

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  • Iphone: controlling text with delay problem with UIWebView

    - by James B.
    Hi, I've opted to use UIWebView so I can control the layout of text I've got contained in a local html document in my bundle. I want the text to display within a UIWebView I've got contained within my view. So the text isn't the whole view, just part of it. Everything runs fine, but when the web page loads I get a blank screen for a second before the text appears. This looks really bad. can anyone give me an example of how to stop this happening? I'm assuming I have to somehow hide the web view until it has fully loaded? Could someone one tell me how to do this? At the moment I'm calling my code through the viewDidLoad like this: [myUIWebView loadRequest: [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle]pathForResource:@"localwebpage" ofType:@"html"] isDirectory:NO]]]; Any help is much appreciated. I've read round a few forums and not seen a good answer to this question, and it seems like it recurs a lot as an issue for beginners like myself. Thanks for taking the time to read this post! UPDATED info Thanks for your response. The suggestions below solves the problem but creates a new one for me as now when my view loads it is totally hidden until I click on my toggle switch. to understand this it's maybe most helpful if I post all my code. Before this though let me explain the setup of my view. I've got a standard view within which I've also got two web views, one on top of the other. each web view contains different text with different styling. the user flicks between views using a toggle switch, which hides/reveals the web views. I'm using the web views because I want to control the style/layout of the text. Below is my full .m code, I can't figure out where it's going wrong. My web views are called oxford & harvard I'm sure its something to do with how/when I'm hiding/revealing views. I've played around with this but can't seem to get it right. Maybe my approach is wrong. A bit of advice ironing this out would be really appreciated: @implementation ReferenceViewController @synthesize oxford; @synthesize harvard; // Implement viewDidLoad to do additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib. - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; [oxford loadRequest: [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle]pathForResource:@"Oxford" ofType:@"html"] isDirectory:NO]]]; [harvard loadRequest: [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle]pathForResource:@"Harvard" ofType:@"html"] isDirectory:NO]]]; [oxford setHidden:YES]; [harvard setHidden:YES]; } - (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView { if([webView hidden]) { [oxford setHidden:NO]; [harvard setHidden:NO]; } } //Toggle controls for toggle switch in UIView to swap between webviews - (IBAction)toggleControls:(id)sender { if ([sender selectedSegmentIndex] == kSwitchesSegmentIndex) { oxford.hidden = NO; harvard.hidden = YES; } else { oxford.hidden = YES; harvard.hidden = NO; } } - (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning { // Releases the view if it doesn't have a superview. [super didReceiveMemoryWarning]; // Release any cached data, images, etc that aren't in use. } - (void)viewDidUnload { [super viewDidUnload]; // Release any retained subviews of the main view. // e.g. self.myOutlet = nil; } - (void)dealloc { [super dealloc]; [oxford release]; [harvard release]; } @end

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  • [Linux] Bind/map Character to alt+[some key]?

    - by Paul
    OS: Ubuntu In programming and various terminal programs (Screen, Vim) the [, ], { and } tends to be used a lot. I'm using a Norwegian keyboard where these are placed such that I have to stretch my fingers a bit too long for whats comfortable. To make it easier I though I'd try to make alt+[some key] be one of these characters. Is there a way that I can bind, say alt+æ (Norwegian letter) to '{' system wide? Btw, is such thing called binding, mapping or something else? I'm getting a bit confused by the terms... :)

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  • connection between two android phones

    - by user1770346
    I m not able to connect my android device to other device(either android or non-android)via bluetooth.After detecting the devices from my android phone,i m not able to connect it to selected device from the list.The main problem is it not showing connectivity conformation message in selected device from list.How can i recover from this problem. please help me.Thanks My code for searching device is:(BluetoothSearchActivity.java) public class BluetoothSearchActivity extends Activity { ArrayAdapter<String> btArrayAdapter; BluetoothAdapter mBluetoothAdapter; TextView stateBluetooth; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); ImageView BluetoothSearchImageView=new ImageView(this); BluetoothSearchImageView.setImageResource(R.drawable.inner1); setContentView(BluetoothSearchImageView); setContentView(R.layout.activity_bluetooth_search); mBluetoothAdapter=BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter(); ListView listDevicesFound=(ListView) findViewById(R.id.myList); btArrayAdapter=new ArrayAdapter<String> (BluetoothSearchActivity.this,android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1); listDevicesFound.setAdapter(btArrayAdapter); registerReceiver(ActionFoundReceiver,new IntentFilter(BluetoothDevice.ACTION_FOUND)); btArrayAdapter.clear(); mBluetoothAdapter.startDiscovery(); listDevicesFound.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() { public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent,View view,int position,long id) { Intent i6=new Intent(getApplicationContext(),AcceptThread.class); startActivity(i6); } }); } private final BroadcastReceiver ActionFoundReceiver=new BroadcastReceiver() { @Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub String action=intent.getAction(); if(BluetoothDevice.ACTION_FOUND.equals(action)) { BluetoothDevice device=intent.getParcelableExtra(BluetoothDevice.EXTRA_DEVICE); btArrayAdapter.add(device.getName()+"\n"+device.getAddress()); btArrayAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged(); Log.d("BluetoothSearchActivity",device.getName()+"\n"+device.getAddress()); } } }; @Override protected void onDestroy() { super.onDestroy(); unregisterReceiver(ActionFoundReceiver); } @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_bluetooth_search, menu); return true; } } and my connectivity code is:(AcceptThread.java) class ConnectThread extends Thread { private static final UUID MY_UUID=UUID.fromString("fa87c0d0-afac-11de-8a39-0800200c9a66"); private static final String ConnectThread = null; BluetoothSocket mSocket; BluetoothDevice mDevice; BluetoothAdapter mBluetoothAdapter; public ConnectThread(BluetoothDevice device) { BluetoothSocket temp=null; mDevice=device; try{ temp=mDevice.createRfcommSocketToServiceRecord(MY_UUID); }catch(IOException e) { } mSocket=temp; } public void run() { mBluetoothAdapter.cancelDiscovery(); try{ Log.i(ConnectThread,"starting to connect"); mSocket.connect(); }catch(IOException connectException) { Log.e(ConnectThread,"connection Failed"); try{ mSocket.close(); }catch(IOException closeException){ } return; } } public void cancel() { try{ mSocket.close(); }catch(IOException e) { } } } public class AcceptThread extends Thread{ private static final String NAME="BluetoothAcceptThread"; private static final UUID MY_UUID=UUID.fromString("fa87c0d0-afac-11de-8a39-0800200c9a66"); BluetoothServerSocket mServerSocket; BluetoothAdapter mBluetoothAdapter; public AcceptThread() { BluetoothServerSocket temp=null; try{ temp=mBluetoothAdapter.listenUsingRfcommWithServiceRecord(NAME,MY_UUID); }catch(IOException e){ } mServerSocket=temp; } public void run() { BluetoothSocket socket=null; while(true) { try{ socket=mServerSocket.accept(); }catch(IOException e) { break; } if(socket!=null) { try { mServerSocket.close(); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } break; } } } public void cancel() { try{ mServerSocket.close(); }catch(IOException e) { } } }

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  • How can I select a default interactive console in pyDev?

    - by dorian
    Using PyDev 2.7.1 in Eclipse 3.7.2, when I hit Ctrl-Alt-Enter to open a new interactive console, I get a dialog asking me what type of console I'd like to start ("Console for currently active editor", consoles for Python, Jython, Iron Python etc.). Now this selection dialog has no default entry and keyboard selection doesn't work, meaning that I have to use my mouse every time I need a new console, which is kind of tedious. I've checked Preferences - PyPev - Interactive Console, but found no interesting options there. Is there any possibility to define a default interactive console type so that I just have to hit Return when the dialog pops up or, even better, skip this question altogether?

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  • How to add an image as a full-page background in Word 2010

    - by Oak
    I'm trying to add an image as a full-page background in word. I've tried page layout -> page color -> fill effect -> picture which looks fine in the preview (though when I try to zoom in or out it no longer looks the same), but when printing it tiled the image instead of just showing it once. I've tried insert -> picture and then setting it to "behind text" and settings its location to (0,0), but then when trying to change the image size the "relative" option is greyed out, so I can't set it to 100% of page size: I guess I can set it manually to the page size, but is there another, simpler way to just set a single image as a background?

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  • How to set the laptop screen brightness programatically?

    - by zls
    I'm currently migrating to openbox without gnome session. In unity i can use the vendor keys to set the screen brightness, but in openbox I'm on my own. /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness works fine, the problem is that I need sudo to set the brightness and that wouldn't work with keyboard mappings. xbacklight -get/set doesn't do or output anything. I don't really want to use xrandr --brightness. Are there any other options or a way to fix the problems with xbacklight or acpi_video0 ?

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  • How can I easily confirm in Linux that two separate directories have the exact same contents?

    - by Mike B
    CentOS 5.x Mq question seemed similar to this one but I wasn't sure... I have two servers (completely isolated from each other), each with a directory and sub-directories that should have the same exact contents. For example the directory layout could be something like: SERVER A - /opt/foo/foob/1092380298309128301283/123.txt /opt/foo/foob/5094380298309128301283/456.txt /opt/foo/foob/5092380298309128301283/789.txt /opt/foo/foob/1592380298309128301283/abc.txt SERVER B - /opt/foo/foob/1092380298309128301283/123.txt /opt/foo/foob/5094380298309128301283/456.txt /opt/foo/foob/5092380298309128301283/789.txt /opt/foo/foob/1592380298309128301283/abc.txt Ideally I'd like a way to do a recursive check and have something confirm that everything matches. I also want to avoid using any third-party tools. Any ideas?

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  • My computer won't go into standby or hibernate

    - by Thomas B.
    Hi. I have a problem that I first noticed yesterday. Whenever I would press the half moon standby button on my keyboard, my computer would go to sleep. I also have a shortcut on my desktop configured to put my computer into hibernate. But now whenever I try to put my pc in sleep or hibernate mode, my monitor goes black for a few seconds but then comes back on at the login screen. I haven't installed or changed anything other than create a couple logical partitions in the hfs+ filesystem. (still in the process of trying to triple-boot) Any help would be great, but for now I'm going to bed. Will check back in the morning.

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  • Scientific calculator app/site that saves calculations for Win 7?

    - by verve
    Are there any scientific calculator apps that aren't browser specific that's easy to use which displays whatever is inputted clearly and one that can be used by a keyboard only but can be used by only a mouse too? Also, I want one that saves the history of calculations and lets us paste it into a document at another time. Also, please don't recommend ones from sketchy-looking sites. Freeware or paidware. I prefer paidware if it's the only way to guarantee accurate calculations. Win 7 Pro.

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  • HP Pavilion dv3 volume control display driver on Windows 7

    - by Farinha
    I've recently bought an HP Pavilion dv3-2150ep and I'm having a hard time getting the volume control display to work as expected. The control is a back-lit touch-sensitive bar above the keyboard. Now the buttons to turn the volume up and down actually do it, but the lightning is not changing at all. The mute button does change color when toggled. I'm not sure if I'm missing any drivers here (I've installed all of those on the HP support page that seem to have something to do with sound and/or display) or if I have to activate this somewhere. Any ideas?

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  • I try to change activity to next page, but it can't.

    - by Daisy
    I try to change page on android application. It have error but look like its swap a little while. public class gps_gui extends Activity implements View.OnClickListener{ /** Called when the activity is first created. */ private static final int ACTIVITY_CREATE = 0; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); final Button login = (Button) findViewById(R.id.login); login.setOnClickListener((OnClickListener) this); } public void onClick(View v){ //Toast.makeText(this, "Already Login",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); Intent i = new Intent(this, SecondPage.class); startActivityForResult(i, ACTIVITY_CREATE); } } public class SecondPage extends Activity { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.second_page); } } In AndriodManifest.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="gps.GUI" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0"> <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name"> <activity android:name=".gps_gui" android:label="@string/app_name"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter> </activity> <activity android:name="second_page"></activity> </application> <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" /> </manifest> Anyone can help me ? thanks Errors: 01-29 13:56:57.709: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(393): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 01-29 13:56:57.709: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(393): android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: Unable to find explicit activity class {gps.GUI/gps.GUI.SecondPage}; have you declared this activity in your AndroidManifest.xml? 01-29 13:56:57.709: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(393): at android.app.Instrumentation.checkStartActivityResult(Instrumentation.java:1404) 01-29 13:56:57.709: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(393): at android.app.Instrumentation.execStartActivity(Instrumentation.java:1378) 01-29 13:56:57.709: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(393): at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:2817) 01-29 13:56:57.709: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(393): at gps.GUI.gps_gui$1.onClick(gps_gui.java:30) 01-29 13:56:57.709: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(393): at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:2408) 01-29 13:56:57.709: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(393): at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:8816) 01-29 13:56:57.709: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(393): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587) 01-29 13:56:57.709: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(393): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92) 01-29 13:56:57.709: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(393): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) 01-29 13:56:57.709: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(393): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627) 01-29 13:56:57.709: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(393): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 01-29 13:56:57.709: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(393): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) 01-29 13:56:57.709: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(393): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868) 01-29 13:56:57.709: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(393): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626) 01-29 13:56:57.709: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(393): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

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  • Partition table damaged

    - by emaster70
    Hello, I'm currently in a terrible situation with my hdd: I was trying to install an OS side by side with my windows 7 x64 and I used the Paragon Partition Manager feature made for that. It disabled/hid/(damaged?) one of my partitions and now I can no longer access it. The partition, unfortunately, contains data I need to access urgently and I've got no backup. To complicate things even further I don't have another PC (I'm writing this msg from my iphone) and all I can rely on is a backtrac 4 disk (wkn't connect to my wifi, gets stuck obtaining IP address) and. Windows 7 x64 disk. Booting into windows fails with the pc hanging on the starting windows screen. Safe mode won't work either. Is there anything I can do? Here's the layout of the disk: Recovery partition Win partition Unallocated space (it's supposed to be my data partition) Other os partition (don't care about that, the installation of the other OS failed) Please help me, I'm desperate.

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  • Windows 2003 to log on no matter how it turned off

    - by Arya
    I have a windows server 2003, which I use Teamviewer to connect to. When there is a power failure, and the computer restarts, it will not load Teamviewer. It gets stuck on a screen which asks why the computer was turned off. There is no keyboard or mouse connected to the server and I need Teamviewer to open every time. I don't want the screen asking why it was turned off to show up ever. I turned off Shutdown Event Tracker by doing the following: Open gpedit.msc Computer Configuration Administrative Templates System click Display Shutdown Event Tracker and then selected the disable radio button. Is this enough to prevent that screen to show up again? or is there anything else I need to change?

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  • Are there any Spreadsheet apps that are as easy and powerful to use as Vim?

    - by ovatsug25
    I'd like to use a spreadsheet that lets me move around cells like I do in Vim. As well, the more commands that are attributed to keyboard shortcuts, the better. Particularly stuff like making Text-to-Columns which is one of my more frequently used features in Excel. I don't mind learning the shortcuts if they allow me to just look at the spreadsheet page and forget about everything else. edit: The way I am thinking about the Spreadsheet right now is as if every cell is its own unique file. There should be a command where I choose to open that file and edit it right on the spot within the view of the spreadsheet. So I guess I want different modes like in vim which have commands and there should be one mode that is hooked up just to do operations or formatting which would be similar to command mode in Vim.

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  • Can I delete the OEM partition on the new Dell XPS 15?

    - by timepilot
    My new Dell XPS 15 L521X just arrived. I need to set this up to dual boot Linux. Sadly, the system comes with four primary partitions. I can't do a clean install at the moment, so one of the partitions will have to be deleted before I can install Linux. The layout is as follows: OEM: 39mb Hibernation: 8gb OS: 457gb Recovery: 12gb Obviously, I can't delete the Hibernation and OS partitions (will shrink to make space for Linux) and I'd like to keep the recovery partition if possible. So my question is what is on the small OEM partition? What functionality will I lose if I delete it?

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  • Want shortcut to OpenVPN GUI connect in Windows 7 (without going through the system tray)

    - by Leo Alekseyev
    I am running OpenVPN with OpenVPN GUI under Windows 7 x64. Currently, to connect I need to right-click the OpenVPN icon in the system tray and select "connect", which brings up the password prompt. What I want: some sort of a batch file or a shortcut that can be invoked to initiate OpenVPN connection. Motivation: I prefer running my system keyboard driven; I usually hide my taskbar and don't like needlessly fishing in the system tray. Currently, OpenVPN is the only program that forces me to interact with the taskbar. Surely there is an alternative approach, possibly invoking some command line trickery and/or autohotkey, but so far I haven't been able to find it.

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  • CSS optimization - extra classes in dom or preprocessor-repetitive styling in css file?

    - by anna.mi
    I'm starting on a fairly large project and I'm considering the option of using LESS for pre-processing my css. the useful thing about LESS is that you can define a mixin that contains for example: .border-radius(@radius) { -webkit-border-radius: @radius; -moz-border-radius: @radius; -o-border-radius: @radius; -ms-border-radius: @radius; border-radius: @radius; } and then use it in a class declaration as .rounded-div { .border-radius(10px); } to get the outputted css as: .rounded-div { -webkit-border-radius: 10px; -moz-border-radius: 10px; -o-border-radius: 10px; -ms-border-radius: 10px; border-radius: 10px; } this is extremely useful in the case of browser prefixes. However this same concept could be used to encapsulate commonly-used css, for example: .column-container { overflow: hidden; display: block; width: 100%; } .column(@width) { float: left; width: @width; } and then use this mixin whenever i need columns in my design: .my-column-outer { .column-container(); background: red; } .my-column-inner { .column(50%); font-color: yellow; } (of course, using the preprocessor we could easily expand this to be much more useful, eg. pass the number of columns and the container width as variables and have LESS determine the width of each column depending on the number of columns and container width!) the problem with this is that when compliled, my final css file would have 100 such declarations, copy&pasted, making the file huge and bloated and repetitive. The alternative to this would be to use a grid system which has predefined classes for each column-layout option, eg .c-50 ( with a "float: left; width:50%;" definition ), .c-33, .c-25 to accomodate for a 2-column, 3-column and 4-column layout and then use these classes to my dom. i really mislike the idea of the extra classes, from experience it results to bloated dom (creating extra divs just to attach the grid classes to). Also the most basic tutorial for html/css would tell you that the dom should be separated from the styling - grid classes are styling related! to me, its the same as attaching a "border-radius-10" class to the .rounded-div example above! on the other hand, the large css file that would result from the repetitive code is also a disadvantage so i guess my question is, which one would you recommend? and which do you use? and, which solution is best for optimization? apart from the larger file size, has there even been any research on whether browser renders multiple classes faster than a large css file, or the other way round? tnx! i'd love to hear your opinion!

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