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How to check the health of a hard drive
My SATA drive started clicking and I was unable to access the data. This is the hard drive in question:
HITACHI Deskstar T7K250 HDT722525DLA380 (0A31636) 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive -Bare Drive
It was not clicking loudly…
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Case insensitive tab completion in Bash
Is there any way to make Bash tab complete case insensitively?
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.0)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
I am using Mac OS X 10.6
Jeffrey Aylesworth
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What keyboard shortcuts move, resize, and maximize windows under Mac OS X?
I just checked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts but the following "Window management" entries are blank for Mac OS X:
Move the focused window
Resize the focused window
Maximize the focused window
Are there really no built…
Philip Durbin
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Items unpinned from taskbar are back after restart/sign out on Windows 10
I have got a new installation of windows recently. Now when I do unpin items from taskbar that were there (IE, Edge, Explorer), they do come back after restart. A pinned chrome does not disappear though e.g.
Anything to fix this issue?
P.S. Just…
Ilya Chernomordik
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How can I restart gpg-agent?
Some changes in the GnuPG configuration demands a gpg-agent restart / reboot (according to the doc), but... How can I do that? I tried gpg-agent restart, service gpg-agent restart, but did not succeed.
Felipe
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7Zip - Command Line : Exclude folder(s) by wildcard pattern?
Any idea how to exclude a wild-carded path(s) from a command-line 7zip command?
I'm doing something like this:
7z.exe a -t7z archive.7z FolderToArchive\ -mx0
and would like to exclude any \bin\*.* or \obj\*.* folders found underneath…
Yoopergeek
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Why is “/dev/rdisk” about 20 times faster than “/dev/disk” in Mac OS X
According to the rasbery pi documentation, You can load your OS to a flash card with either /dev/disk or /dev/rdisk.
rdisk stands for raw disk.
/dev/disk is a block level device, why would rdisk be 20 times faster?
Using Mac OSX
Note: In OS X…
spuder
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Combine/merge PDF files in Windows?
Is there a painless way to combine/merge PDF files in Windows? I understand that pdftk will do it on Linux.
user1413
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How do I paste the Windows clipboard into my PuTTY session, using only the keyboard?
I would like to paste text the Windows clipboard into my PuTTY session using only the keyboard. I am running PuTTY 0.60 on Windows XP.
Usage example: I just selected a bunch of nice text inside of my Emacs on Windows. I then shift my focus to a…
piyo
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Pseudo English looking characters used in Windows 10 Insider Preview
Firstly, this may look like it should be in security or something more 'virus related' but this is now after a fresh format and reinstall so it really shouldn't be that. (Thought I'd nip that response in the bud before this goes off track...)
So to…
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Is it better to use a laptop on battery or on AC power?
When I'm at home, is it better to use the laptop plugged into AC power, or with just the battery, for the overall battery life?
Moayad Mardini
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How to download video with blob url?
I am trying to download video with src url blob:https%3A//www.youtube.com/23aea5c8-9ae2-40dc-9417-e675ea99b386.
Is there a process that can be followed to download all this type of videos?
vinesh
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Windows Disk I/O 100% at boot for 20 Minutes
I have a fast computer (quad-core i7, 3.5 Ghz, 24 GB of RAM, Windows 8.1) and I installed a new hard drive less than a year ago that was supposed to be as fast as you could buy for an HHD and not an SSD.
On boot, the computer is extremely slow for…
Jason
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On OS X, why does `sudo ls` show hidden (dot) files?
With OS X Yosemite, using the following commands, I get the following:
$ touch .a
$ touch b
$ /bin/ls
b
$ /bin/ls -A
.a b
$ sudo /bin/ls
.a b
It shows hidden files (that have names starting with a dot) when invoked by root and doesn’t show them…
kirelagin
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Where is the .zshrc file on Mac?
I’m using iTerm and wanted to customize the look of my terminal window using Oh My ZSH!. And according to the documentation I need to change the ~/.zshrc file and add a ZSH_THEME value:
Once you find a theme that you want to use, you will need to…
Leon Gaban
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