from Lifehacker:
You already know you can use Ctrl+Enter to avoid typing http://www or .com when entering URLs in the Firefox address bar. Along those same lines, you can even go to a web site’s subpages without typing the protocol or top level domain. Try it: type apple/trailers into the Firefox address bar and press Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter for Mac users). Her Foxiness will fill in the http://www and .com in all the right places and zip you right along to Apple’s Trailers section of the site. Same works for lifehacker/software/downloads, too. Nifty!
You can also use shift+enter in a similar way – wraps “www.” and “.net” around whatever you type.
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In addition to packing and identification stickers, you can identify an external modem by installing as a ’standard modem’, running the diagnostics and reading the responses for AT13 and AT16.
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“Incorrect Function” Error
When synchronizing offline files, some files give an error:
“Unable to make ‘Filename.ext’ available offline on \\Server\Share\Folder. Incorrect function.”
Solution found here
- Open My Computer
- Goto Tools–>Options
- Click on the Offline Files tab.
- Hold down CTRL+SHIFT and click DELETE FILES. This will completely clear the client cache and re-sync after a reboot.
“Files of this type cannot be made available offline” Error
Error message:
“Warnings occurred while Windows was synchronizing your data. Results: Offline files. Unable to make file name available offline. Files of this type cannot be made available offline.”
To suppress error message for specific file types:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache\ExclusionErrorSuppressionList]
“*.pst”=dword:00000000
“*.mdb”=dword:00000000
“*.db?”=dword:00000000
“*.ldb”=dword:00000000
“*.mde”=dword:00000000
“*.mdw”=dword:00000000
“*.slm”=dword:00000000
To change the error message display for all types: (from here)
To change this default behavior, use Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe) to locate the following key in the registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Syncmgr]
Add the following registry value:
Value Name: KeepProgressLevel
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1 (hexadecimal)
You can add the following values and then quit Registry Editor:
1 – Pause on errors.
2 – Pause on warnings.
3 – Pause on errors and warnings.
4 – Pause and display INFO.
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The log for CHKDSK can be found in the Windows Event Log. It’s in the Applications log and the source will be listed as Winlogon.
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To install additional software required to support various types of multimedia:
The GUI way
- Applications->Add/Remove Applications.
- Type
xine into the search box at the top.
- Find “Xine extra plugins” in the list and tick it.
- Find and select “Gstreamer extra codec” and “Sun Java 5.0 Plugin”
- Press OK.
The Command Line way
This is much quicker as long as you know the names of the packages you want to install.
- Install codecs etc:
sudo apt-get install sox vorbis-tools flac lame mpg321 faad faac
- Install the Xine-backend version of Totem:
sudo apt-get install totem-xine
Flash v9
The version of Flash in Ubuntu 6.10 is v7 which is quite old. Lots of websites now require version 9, which is easy to install in Firefox:
- Go to http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/
- Click on the green jigsaw piece icon to install the current version of Flash.
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A pastebin is a website that allows you to paste text in order to share it with someone else on the web. They are useful for troubleshooting all sorts of programming and configuration issues.
Pastebin.com appears to be the original, and it allows a wide variety of syntax highlighting and also the creation of private Pastebins (private in the sense that only your content should be on there, but still available to anyone who knows the URL)
www.pastebin.ca doesn’t appear to be working properly at the moment so I can’t say much about it.
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When you search in Gmail the results are returned in pages of 20. If you press Select: All, then you only get the visible 20 selected. What if you want to perform an action on all of the matching messages?
The same thing applies if you want to perform some action on all messages in a Label. You can only see 100 messages at a time, so how do you select the entire Label?
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Instructions How to do it…
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Accessing any protected system from an Internet Cafe-type situation is always a risk. This is because you have no way of knowing whether there is any spy/sniffing/keylogging software on the PC – either installed by another user or by the sysadmin. The following are tips to minimise the risks
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