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Are GnuPG 1 and GnuPG 2 compatible with each other?
With Macports, I realize that there are ports gnupg and a newer gnupg2. I'd like to use GnuPG to encrypt files. Should I install both, or just one is enough? If I installed both, are both compatible with each other? Does it matter which one I…
qazwsx
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Mapping drive letters to local folders
Is there a windows equivalent to the old dos SUBST command?
I want to be able to assign a local drive letter to a folder on a local drive.
I realize that a mapped drive will work (and so far that's the technique I've ended up using), but it doesn't…
PaoloFCantoni
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How to disable subtitles by default (but keep them available)?
When I play a video in VLC it always starts with subtitles! I don't want this! I want subtitles OFF until I choose to turn them ON.
I tried unchecking 'enable sub-pictures' in the preferences menu, but this removed the subtitle user interface…
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UDP traffic through SSH tunnel
The title pretty much sums it up. I would like to send UDP traffic through a SSH tunnel. Specifically, I need to be able to send UDP packets through the tunnel and have the server be able to send them back to me on the other side. I know how to…
heavyd
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Switch between windows on Mac OS X?
On Windows when I do alt+tab I can switch between windows. If I have 5 firefox windows open then using alt+tab will switch between them.
On my MacBook, cmd+tab switches between applications, not windows, so it will switch between firefox and xcode,…
Nir Levy
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Can I move hiberfil.sys to another drive?
I am running out of space on my %SYSTEMDRIVE% on Windows. There is hiberfil.sys file that size of it is almost 3GB.
I understand that hiberfil.sys is used for the windows hibernation…
Hamed
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how do I echo $something >> file.txt without carriage return?
When I echo $something >> file.txt, a new line will be append to the file.
What if I want to append without a new line?
onemach
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Getting WGET to display a less verbose output
Is it possible to get WGET to only show download progress e.g. download bar, opposed to all of the connection info, as it does look a little ugly on the client side, is this possible to do?
Jay
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One GnuPG/PGP key pair, two emails?
I have two emails I use frequently, for both of which I'd like to use PGP keys generated/managed by GnuPG. I'd like to avoid creating a different key pair for each email, if possible, as that's unnecessary for my situation, i.e. I use the two emails…
Computist
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How do I find the encoding of the current buffer in vim?
Say I am editing some file with vim (or gvim). I have no idea about the file's encoding and I want to know whether it is in UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 or whatever? Can I somehow tell vim to show me what encoding is used?
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Checking what PHP version I'm running on Linux?
I'm running Centos 5 and I need to know what version of PHP I'm running, is there a command for this which I can run?
Elitmiar
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What is the difference between Symbolic Link and Shortcut?
What is the difference between a Symbolic Link and a Shortcut?
deepthi tm
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Avoid password prompt for keys and prompts for DN information
I am using following code to generate keys:
apt-get -qq -y install openssl;
mkdir -p /etc/apache2/ssl;
openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024;
openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr;
cp server.key server.key.org;
openssl rsa -in…
JP19
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Vertical line for the the right margin in Notepad++
Does anyone know if Notepad++ can display a vertical line on the right margin to indicated that the text will or will not fit on a printed page? I have looked but I cannot find it. Word wrap does work, but it wraps by my screen width, not by the…
ubiquibacon
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How to update snap-store linux.. How to update this?
How to update snap-store .
I don't have Ubuntu advantage subscription.
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