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Use Ctrl+Shift+Click to Open Programs as Administrator in Windows 7 (and some other shortcuts you might want)

Submitted by bdillahu on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 22:39

Guiding Tech

1. Ctrl+Shift+N to Create a New Folder
2. Ctrl+Shift+Click to Open a Program As Administrator
3. Shift+Right-Click Enhances Send to Menu
4. Shift+Right-Click on a Folder to Open Command Prompt
5. Win+Space to Quickly Show Desktop
6. Win+Up/Down/Left/Right for Moving the Active Window
7. For Dual Monitors: Win+Shift+Left Arrow Key to Move Active Window to Left Monitor
8. For Dual Monitors: Win+Shift+Right Arrow Key to Move Active Window to Right Monitor
9. Win+T to Get to Taskbar Items

Mac OS X Terminal Tips and Tricks

Submitted by bdillahu on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 22:32

Bunch of good hints for using a Mac from the command line:

Terminal Tips and Tricks For Mac OS X

IMAP Webmail solution - Hastymail2

Submitted by bdillahu on Fri, 05/14/2010 - 22:54

We've probably all used Squirrelmail at some point. A good, serviceable IMAP capable webmail program.

I've long been searching for something better... Roundcube is the normal suggestion, but the database requirement and general performance (or lack thereof) on my hardware kept me unhappy with it.

Enter Hastymail2 - I love it. Looks good, performs well, has all the features I want. I'm not quite sure why it took me so long to find it.

Kill unresponsive ssh session

Submitted by bdillahu on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 09:46

With telnet, every time you connected it told you the escape sequence (^] usually) that would let you shell out to the telnet command prompt to disconnect or whatever. With ssh, I've never known how to do this.

Apparently I'm not the only one... but if you bother to read the man page, the function does exist:

$ ~?
Supported escape sequences:
~. - terminate connection (and any multiplexed sessions)
~B - send a BREAK to the remote system
~C - open a command line
~R - Request rekey (SSH protocol 2 only)
~^Z - suspend ssh
~# - list forwarded connections

iotop - IO/disk activity measurment

Submitted by bdillahu on Fri, 04/30/2010 - 13:11

Looking for a way to see what processes are beating your disk? Always seemed like something 'top' would show, but it doesn't. Here's a little utility that does.

iotop

Netflix and the Wii

Submitted by bdillahu on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 21:31

Although I'm heavily into technology, I am not always much of an early adopter :-)

We got a Wii for my son (although the entire family enjoys it) about a year ago. We have never done the Netflix thing, but I decided to give their trial run a shot the other day. Got our "streaming" disk from them to watch streaming video on the Wii.

Very nice!

I must say, it works well.

New site/new slogan?

Submitted by bdillahu on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 22:00

Well, playing with various things...

Old slogan was "Things I needed to know and you might..." - now I'm trying "I needed to know it, so might you"

Not sure which I like better.

smbclient to Windows 7 fails

Submitted by bdillahu on Sun, 01/17/2010 - 22:13

If you are trying to use smbclient from Samba to attach from a Linux box to a Windows machine sharing a directory and get an error that looks like:

session setup failed: SUCCESS - 0

Try removing the Windows Live Sign-In Assistant program (Add/Remove Control Panel).

Worked for me.

NFS problem debugging

Submitted by bdillahu on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 12:27

A friend (thanks Monte!) passes over the tips to improve the ability to debug NFS problems:

- cat 1024 >/proc/sys/sunrpc/nfs_debug

and/or

- nfsd_debug

Both helps improve the verbosity of log messages that appear in syslog.

Software quote

Submitted by bdillahu on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 18:24

Software should be smart, not clever.

[*Source*](http://www.digital-web.com/articles/why_textpattern/>http://www.digital-web.com/articles/why_textpattern/)

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