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What does the @ mean on the output of "ls" on OS X' terminal?
When doing an ls in a directory I get the following output:
drwxr-xr-x@ 12 xonic staff 408 22 Jun 19:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 xonic staff 306 22 Jun 19:42 ..
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 xonic staff 6148 25 Mai 23:04 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r--@ 1 xonic staff …
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What is the difference between pressing Alt+Tab and Ctrl+Alt+Tab?
When I press Alt+Tab, then I get a window to switch between windows. With Ctrl+Alt+Tab, I get the same result. What is the difference between them?
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Chrome address bar no longer shows protocol or www subdomain
A couple of days ago I noticed that for all websites, chrome omits from the address bar the protocol and the subdomain if it is www. My co-workers report that they are not seeing this. Chrome version is 67.0.3396.87.
For example, if I type into the…
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How to disable Ctrl+Q shortcut in Firefox on Linux
Since Firefox 57 there is no way to disable Ctrl+Q shortcut by plugin on Linux (see this bug). All workarounds I've found are based on setting the global Ctrl+Q shortcut to "steal" it from Firefox. But this will disable this shortcut in every…
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How can I filter out unique results from grep output?
In linux, I can grep a string from a file using grep mySearchString myFile.txt.
How can I only get the result which are unique?
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Diskpart - Can't delete a partition without the force protected parameter set
Following on from my previous question (Can't remove recovery partition) I have been trying to use Diskpart - with the following results:
Is my disk locked in a permanent way or is this something I can easily address without additional tools?
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How to switch git user at terminal?
I am trying to push a project to a remote repository from the command line.
From inside my local directory, I hit:
$ git push
and obtain the following error:
remote: Permission to username1/repo.git denied to username2.
fatal: unable to access…
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Turning off the cmd window beep sound
Is there a way to essentially mute the Beeping function of the Windows command shell?
I'm working on a PowerShell script right now which ends up printing several lines of text to the screen. I'm working out a bug in the encoding logic. But every…
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Why does Qatar use a single IP address when 800,000 IP addresses are allocated to it?
In discussions about IP address banning, IP 82.148.97.69 is often cited as an example. According to Wikipedia, this IP address is the public address of "the entire nation of Qatar". There are two things I don't quite understand:
Why does Qatar use…
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Windows Unable to Delete ._. File
I currently have a file on the root of my external hard drive simply named ._., which I am guessing was added to my hard drive after using it on my MacBook a while ago. I'm trying to delete this file on my Windows 10 machine; however Windows keeps…
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How do web-servers "listen" to IP addresses, interrupt or polling?
I'm trying to understand the lower details of web servers.
I am wondering if a server, say Apache, is continuously polling for new requests or If it works by some sort of interrupt system. If it is an interrupt, what is sparking the interrupt, is it…
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My colleague often shuts down my machine through the LAN - how do I prevent it?
This might sound weird. My colleague and I were working on a Windows machine. He frequently shuts it down through the LAN.
He usually follows these steps:
Access command prompt, enter shutdown -i.
Choose my IP address, click on Shutdown.
Select a…
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How do I remove English (US) from Windows 8.1?
I've got a slightly annoying problem. My locale is English (UK), but occasionally my keyboard randomly switches to English (US) on Windows 8.1. I see that the task bar has a language selector, which when I click on it displays two languages:
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How to get VirtualBox VMs to use host's DNS?
I use VirtualBox for my VMs. My office network setup is wireless, i.e. I connect to my company's WiFi network, which has a local DNS to resolve local names (such as something.mycompany.com going to 123.45.67.89). When I build a new VM, it can…
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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…
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