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How do I search a page using a regular expression in Firefox?

I want to use regular expressions to search a page in Firefox. Is this possible?
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How can I recover the original file from a .swp file?

I tried opening the .swp file using vi and cat but it displays junk.
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How to suppress cUrl's progress meter when redirecting the output?

I'm trying to print just the verbose sections of a cURL request (which are sent to stderr) from the bash shell. But when I redirect stdout like this: curl -v http://somehost/somepage > /dev/null Some sort of results table appears in the middle of…
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How do modern motherboards differ from each other?

On the surface, a motherboard appears to me like it's not a "performance" part like a CPU or a graphics card. The purpose, at least from my understanding, is to connect the various hardware parts together, as well as offer a handful of USB and other…
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How to make new file permission inherit from the parent directory?

I have a directory called data. Then I am running a script under the user id 'robot'. robot writes to the data directory and update files inside. The idea is data is open for both me and robot to update. So I setup the permission and owner group…
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Chrome uses 80% CPU when I visit a specific website

Whenever I try to visit this particular website, chrome CPU usage shoots up to at least 75% and my laptop get way louder. If I close the tab everything goes back to normal. RAM usage never goes up. My naive guess is the website is trying to mine…
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Why does MIT have a /8 IPv4 block?

I noticed that MIT has the IP addresses 18.0.0.0/8. It seems like MIT is the only university that has a whole /8 block. Why does MIT have a whole /8 IPv4 block? What makes it different from other Universities?
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How do you mount a directory as a drive in Windows 7?

I have a directory on another drive that I want to show as a new virtual drive. How can I do that?
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Moving a window from a disconnected monitor to connected monitor on Vista

I have a laptop that runs Vista Mega Ultimate Amazing for Business 64-bit. When at work, I connect a monitor via USB (which totally rocks) to the "left" of the laptop monitor. It's identified as monitor 3. At home, I use an old CRT monitor that sits…
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How to get WYSIWYP (print what you see) in a web browser?

When I print a web page from my browser, I expect to get on paper exactly the content I'm seeing in the browser. To be precise: I expect the browser to render the same page contents the same way, except on a canvas with infinite height, and then…
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Can I use vodka to clean my keyboard?

I spilled beer on my keyboard a while back, and some of the keys are sticky. It's driving me crazy, and I don't have any isopropyl. Can I use vodka to clean it?
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Mouse clicks suddenly stopped working in Ubuntu

This is a weird one. For some reason, last night my mouse partially stopped working. Movement is fine, but the mouse buttons don't work. Mainly it's the left button, but occasionally the right click and scroll-wheel fail too. Initially I thought it…
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Can I create a link to a specific email message in Outlook?

I use Outlook as my email client at work, but I don't want to use it to manage my tasks and todos. (Instead I use plain text files and Emacs org-mode.) Since many todo items start out as mails in my inbox, I often need to reference these mails. Is…
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What does "On-link" mean on the result of "route print" command?

I'm using Windows 7. When I type "route print" under command prompt, I get a IPv4 Route Table with several "On-link" values under the Gateway column. For example, like this one: IPv4 Route…
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yum install gcc-g++ doesn't work anymore in CentOs 6.4

Today installed CentOs 6.4 fresh new on my workstation. I wanted to install g++. With my surprise I didn't succeed by using yum install gcc-g++ The thing is that even by doing a search I don't get any result. # No package available yum search…
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