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Bluetooth Headphones sound terrible on Mac OS X?
I got a pair of Plantronics bluetooth headphones. Work great with my iPhone. Sounds terrible with my Mac, cuts out, sounds choppy, sounds mono to me. A co-worker tells me he has the same problem.
BTW, I'm on Leopard, patched up.
So question is:…
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How to open .dbml in designer mode with VS?
After installing Visual Studio 2017, my LINQ To SQL .dbml definitions open in a XML editor instead of the built in designer.
How do I configure VS to open .dbml in Designer mode instead of XML editor?
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Pin applications to multiple desktops in Windows 10
One of the big new features for Windows is the fact that multiple "virtual" desktops are now natively supported, allowing you to organise collections of windows together and separate groups of tasks.
This is good.
You can move windows between…
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How to split large file on Windows?
Is there a tool to split large text file (9Gb) into smaller files so that I can open it and look through?
Anything usable from command line that comes with Windows (XP)?
Or what's the best way to split it? Can I use 7z to create separate volumes…
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Remove Chrome Network timeline
Does anyone know of a way to remove this?
Currently Chrome Version 43.0.2357.130 m but other versions accepted as well.
I've looked through all of the settings to no avail.
If you want to know why I want it removed; it takes up too much space.
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Docker containers have their own kernel or not?
I see that a lot of docker images in the docker repository are made with an Ubuntu base.
What does that mean? Does each container bundle a stripped down version of the Linux kernel?
Do containers sit on top of their own kernels? But I thought…
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Can a 7 days full 100% CPU load "burn-in" / "stress test" damage a modern notebook?
When I buy new computers, I usually do a "burn-in" with 100% CPU load for, say, seven days, in a well ventilated place.
This is to
find out if the computer has problems before I invest time into setting it up for me
let it "steam out" some of the…
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Is there a way to identify the busy (CPU-consuming) tab in Firefox?
Sometimes there's a nasty, guilty, CPU-hogging tab in Firefox that's maxing one of my CPU cores and making the whole browser sluggish. I'd like to find it and close it.
Sometimes I get lucky, but not often enough. So even the slightest hint of…
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How to make a custom keyboard layout in OS X?
I recently moved to OS X and I find the system "Russian Phonetic" layout unsatisfying (it's not the one that I'm used to). How can I create a custom layout?
I've read about Ukelele, but the layout I created and copied to Library/Keyboard Layouts…
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Arrange windows within the same application in the taskbar of Windows 7
Is there a way to arrange windows within the same application in the taskbar of Windows 7?
Right now we can freely adjust each application's position in the taskbar, but within the app itself the windows can't be reordered, for example multiple…
user12217
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How to change the text direction in LibreOffice?
I need "right to left" text direction to write in Persian.
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How to obtain maximum compression with .tar.gz?
The way i understand the use of tar + gzip is that tar is normally used to consolidate a grouping of files into a single file, then gzip is used to compress that file.
I recently learned that tar can also compress.
Because I do not fully understand…
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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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Insert Unicode characters via the keyboard?
I am familiar with inserting an ASCII character into a text document by using 'Alt+ASCII code' on the NumPad keys (e.g. Alt+130 inserts an é character).
Is there a similar way to insert a Unicode character via the keyboard using the unicode value…
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How to copy multi-line text from Excel without quotes?
When you create a multi-line string in an excel cell (by using Alt-Enter), if you copy that cell to a text editor, excel will automatically add double quotes (") around the full string, ie:
Cell1 | Simple String 1
Cell2 | First line of a
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