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Questions tagged [scratch]

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Autosave / autoload content of scratch buffer in Emacs

I would like to assign a file (~/tmp/scratch) to the *scratch* buffer in Emacs. When I open Emacs I would like ~/tmp/scratch to be opened (preferably in the buffer named *scratch*) and when Emacs is closed the content should be saved to…
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Accessible materials with same refractive index as polycarbonate

There is a common home-remedy for scratched flat-screen monitors that says to rub a bit of petroleum jelly into the scratch. The rationale being that because the jelly has a similar refractive index as the plastic of the screen, light does not…
Synetech
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Repairing or retrieving video off a cracked disk

My disk has a thin crack right through the one side. Right around the crack it looks like it has water damage but I'm pretty sure it was caused from the crack. Will tape work for this? If there is no way to repair it, is there somewhere that I can…
Tori Hisey
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How do I use an internal SSD as a scratch disk for FCP X?

I'm contemplating setting up my MacBook Air as a video editing machine. If I do this, I'll upgrade to a 256 GB SSD, and I should be able to keep around 100 GB or more free for video editing. The video files would of course be stored externally,…
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Changing behaviour of the *scratch* buffer in Aquamacs

In Emacs, the scratch buffer is sort of special. It is intended to contain stuff that you don't want to save. In Aquamacs, it is treated as a normal buffer, so that if I close it, Aquamacs will ask me if I want to discard my changes and so…
Roberto Aloi
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Recover data from damaged Hard Drive (Windows)

My external hard drive wasn't working, so I looked online and followed a very suspicious tutorial, openned it and the disk had some marks, like if the reader head was "scratching" the surface. I cleaned it with isopropyl alcohol 99,8% pure, closed…
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Would it be possible to run unix system as a docker linux image on top of Linux?

I understand that is impossible to run a docker image of a certain OS on top of a host with a different kernel than the image because of the fact that Docker images use host kernel to work... I'm wondering if it would be possible to run UNIX…
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ddrescue stuck, Error Splicing DVD file on Linux, but not on Windows

I have couple of old scratched DVDs which I wanted to rescue using ddrescue. The problem is it shows "error splicing file" on copying files manually using PartedMagic or Ubuntu, also ddrescue gets stuck at 0.14% and can't rescue the rest of the DVD,…
Hamid Shirvani
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Playing a Video-DVD with scratches

Our local library has the DVD "Frozen" available, but it's badly scratched. Our DVD player at home sometimes hangs, but then skips past the scratch and continues play after about a minute or so. My laptop is not so friendly: he just hangs and keeps…
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How to remove scratches from my monitor bezel?

I have two new IPS monitors for my pc and I have got two fine scratches on one of them. It's only really fine, but it's visible in day light which ends up distracting me.What is the best way to fix this without using a bottle that'll I'll have to…
HArry
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Burning / copying CD to improve playback

I want someone to explain to me why burning/copying some scratched CDs to a new disk, can improve the new disk's playback. Situation Borrowed a public CD with songs for playback, was scratched, and some tracks were affected (skip). I wanted a copy…
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Optimal performance

Below is a list of my storage and HDD config. Samsung 850 EVO 250GB (SSD) Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB (SSD) Western Digital WD4004FZWX 4TB (SATA III) Western Digital WD4004FZWX 4TB (SATA III) I am currently running the OS (WIN10) and all apps…
ozmo
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Any scratch disks available in Photoshop 2017 mac

Can you help me? I have installed photoshop to my macbook and when i’m working it begins to write “Any scratch disk available” and really, when i look at Preferences - Scratch disk there’s nothing disk to choice. What can i do, what’s bad? Thanks
Kan Klokan Gur
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Wrap lines in vim's scratch buffer but not elsewhere

I have set nowrap in my vim config file but there's one place where I need line wrapping: the scratch buffer (because the text that shows up there usually doesn't stick to 80 columns). Is there a way to enable line wrapping for the scratch buffer…
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