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Way to limit bandwidth of programs on Windows?

Is there a technique in Windows that can selectively limit bandwidth of a running process?
James McMahon
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How to open folder without using mouse in Mac?

I'm recently switched to Mac from Windows. It was quite a pain but I am now adjusted to the Mac commands and shortcuts, except one. That is whenever I select a folder and press Return/Enter it executes the rename. While I was expecting it to open…
Prashant Cholachagudda
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Local taskbar visible during remote desktop fullscreen

When I do remote desktop fullscreen connection on Windows 10 local host to Windows 7 remote host, the local task bar will not get covered by the RDP window as it used to be. It remains visible on top and the only help is to set the local taskbar to…
Vojtěch Dohnal
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recursively change owner windows 7

Somehow I accidentally set all the files in a subfolder to "No Owner' and I can't seem to change all the permissions. I can change one by hand by changing the owner then setting permissions but how can I change owner of all the files in this…
user3109
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Less: Quickly Jump to Line Number in Large File

I'm struggling to figure out a way to do this...I'm using less to view a large (~1GB) file. I want to jump to line "$n" in the file - preferably without having to wait for lines 1-($n-1) to scroll by in my terminal. I would do this in vim using…
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How can I re-sync the subtitle and the video using VLC media player?

When I play a movie with subtitles (on VLC media player), the text is often displayed too soon or too late. Is there a way to delay the starting point of the subtitles?
Rabskatran
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Windows 10: Rename pinned items in Windows Explorer's Quick Access

I just got done upgrading Windows 8 to Windows 10 and I've found that the 'Favorites' panel in Windows Explorer got replaced with a 'Quick Access' panel and I can't seem to find a way to rename the pinned items in Quick Access like I could for…
Loman
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Regularly getting ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED errors in Chrome

I'm regularly getting ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED errors in Chrome. It's usually when using Google, or other Google products (YouTube, Drive, etc.), but has also happen on other various sites, but less often than it appears to happen with Google's sites.…
Moskie
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Create a tar file for compressing files and directories on Mac OS X

I'm new to Mac OS X and am not sure how to do this: I have three directories. I want to create a tar/zip file of them so that I can attach them to an email. Any ideas?
sagarkothari
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scp with zsh : no matches found

when I try scp over zsh, I get scp hostA:Descargas/debian-6.0.4-* user@192.168.1.154:Escritorio/Software/ zsh: no matches found: hostA:Descargas/debian-6.0.4-* the same command work in bash
juanpablo
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How to access a BitLocker-encrypted drive in Linux?

I have a laptop running Windows 7 Ultimate. I have encrypted my drives using BitLocker. Now I have also installed Lubuntu along with Windows. But my encrypted drives are not visible in Linux. How can I fix this?
Suyash Mohan
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OpenSSL missing during ./configure. How to fix?

I was trying to install node.js and found OpenSSL support missing during ./configure. How can I fix it? Is it a mandatory step? Would the --without-ssl option fix the problem? # ./configure Checking for gcc : ok Checking for…
P K
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shortcut to manually Reload file from Disk

Now that I can turn off the annoying Reload popups, I would like a quick way to manually reload the file I am working on in NotePad++ via the keyboard. Looking at the File menu, Reload from Disk does not have a shortcut. Is there a hidden shortcut…
akf
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faster way to mount a remote file system than sshfs?

I have been using sshfs to work remotely, but it is really slow and annoying, particularly when I use eclipse on it. Is there any faster way to mount the remote file system locally? My no.1 priority is speed. Remote machine is Fedora 15, local…
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Increase the maximum number of open file descriptors in Snow Leopard?

I am trying to do something that requires a large number of file descriptors sudo ulimit -n 12288 is as high as Snow Leopard wants to go; beyond this results in /usr/bin/ulimit: line 4: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Invalid argument. I…
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