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How to paste into nano from clipboard?
I have an Ubuntu server hosted by Vultr which I am interacting with remotely using their provided terminal. I would like to know how to paste from my clipboard into nano, which I am using to write the code for my server. I have tried Ctrl+U but this…
Dev Oskii
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How do I press Ctrl+Alt+Delete in VirtualBox?
I'm running VirtualBox with Windows Vista as host OS and Windows Server 2008 as guest OS. To login to Windows Server I have to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete, but my host OS reacts on that so I can not send it to VirtualBox. How can I do it?
Jonas
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Getting back the old Alt-Tab windows switching behavior in Windows 7
When you run more than six applications on Windows 7 and you press Alt + Tab, icons representing the first six applications and the desktop appear on the first row of the grid and you can cycle with Alt + Tab + Tab... through the six most-recently…
Carlos A. Ibarra
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Why do I need an SMTP server?
Why do I need an intermediate SMTP server to send mail? Why can’t my client (Outlook, Thunderbird) send messages directly to the recipient’s SMTP domain?
For example, if I have to send an email to address@example.com with my Gmail account, I send it…
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What's the difference between mobile and desktop processors?
I just read about the new Samsung Galaxy Note Edge having a 2.7 GHz quad-core processor and 3GB of RAM.
The laptop I bought last year by HP is 4 GB of RAM and 2.3 GHz quad-core and my iMac is even older and is 2.5 GHz i5.
Does this mean that the new…
DonnellyOverflow
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Why can't you uninstall multiple programs at once in Windows?
Why won't Windows allow you to uninstall or remove multiple programs at once? What is the reasoning behind this? Will it mess up an internal system?
I am not looking for how to uninstall multiple programs at once, I am simply looking for a reason…
Jeroen
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How to avoid keyboard layout automatically changing on windows
I have two input languages in my language bar (windows xp).
The problem is that windows likes changing between them without any intervention.
That's really annoying!
I know about the shortcuts and already turned off Word language detection, but the…
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"Google Software Update would like to control this computer..." What?
For the first time (that I've seen), some piece of Google's software updater is now asking for permission to control my computer.
I couldn't find any other mention of this on the web, so I don't know if this is a new change, or some unknown…
Craig Otis
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How do I burn an ISO on a USB drive on Mac OS X?
what's the best way to get an ISO "burned" to a USB stick on a Mac? Restoring using Disk Utility does not work.
The ISO is ubuntu mini.iso. It is the minimalist install ISO for installing ubuntu. It needs to be bootable on a PC. I am trying to…
Jason Marcell
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Tired of waiting for www.google-analytics.com -- can a browser setting "opt me out"?
Recently (past few weeks) my web browsing is often very slow, and it is often the case at these times that the status bar reads "waiting for www.google-analytics.com".
Is there any browser setting that will tell Google that I do not wish to be a…
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Why would I choose Libav over FFmpeg, or is there even a difference?
From what I've seen it looks to me like Libav's avconv is thought to become a successor of ffmpeg — is that correct?
If that's true, why is that so? What exactly is libav doing better and why would I want to choose it over ffmpeg?
I came to this…
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Is it possible to use the IE10 App without making Internet Explorer the default browser?
Windows 8 comes with two versions of Internet Explorer: the normal desktop version, which looks just like IE9, and the Modern UI version, which is a full-screen tablet-style app. By default, links opened in desktop mode open in desktop IE, and links…
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How do I set Notepad++ as the default editor?
I want set Notepad++ as the default editor. I tried to set it by right-clicking on a file, then Open With. But I did not see Notepad++ in the resulting list (even after clicking on Choose Other Programs).
When I try to redirect to Notepad++ through…
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What's the difference between cc and To fields in e-mail?
In most email clients you can send an e-mail to multiple recipients in the To: field by separating addresses by a semicolon.
You can also use CC to send a copy to other people. Is there any difference between the two? Do mail programs behave…
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