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How do I get my menu bar back in Sublime Text 3 Linux?

The newest version of ST3 allows linux users to remove their menu bar, but I fail to see how to bring it back. In Windows, pressing Alt shows the menu, but not so in Linux. How can I get it back? Is there a shortcut I can set, or make it so that Alt…
timetofly
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Creating ext4 partition from console

I have a volume /dev/sda1 (1.2 TB) containing an NTFS partition using 0.6 TB space. I want to make an ext4 partition in the remaining 0.6 TB space. I have not tried anything yet because I don't want to risk losing data if I hit a wrong command. (I…
Daniel W.
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Why do some downloading files not know their own size?

Occasionally, when downloading a file in a web browser, the download progress doesn't "know" the total size of the file, or how far along in the download it is -- it just shows the speed at which it's downloading, with a total as "Unknown". Why…
Coldblackice
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How do I disable "you need to format this disk" message in Windows Vista/7?

I've started using TrueCrypt to encrypt a partition on an external USB hard drive. I've opted for using a raw partition as opposed to a file container. But here's the annoyance. Whenever I connect this drive to a computer running Vista or Windows 7,…
Joe Attardi
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Verifying USB connection speed (USB 3 or USB 2?)

I've purchased several new USB 3 capable drives to use with my new (USB 3 capable) laptop. They connect ok but I suspect they're silently falling back to USB 2. The sustained transfer rates I'm seeing are around 30 Mb/s for both reads and writes,…
Molomby
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Why doesn’t SCP work while SSH does?

If I want to send something via scp to server: scp file server: _____ _____ _____ Then three lines are printed and file is not copied. However I can connect to server via ssh without problem: ssh server How to make scp work?
scdmb
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Delete files with regular expression

I Tried to delete files that starts with A and ends with 2 numbers but It doesn't do a thing. What I tried: rm ^A*[0..9]2$ Where am I wrong?
gdoron
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How to force Windows to rename a file with a special character?

I have a song that Windows can't play because there is a question mark in the name of the file. "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?.ogg" // as an example So I try to rename it and Windows complains whether I try it in Explorer or from command…
codeLes
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Ensuring new files in a directory belong to the group

I want to create a shared directory when a number of users (all belong to say mygroup) can create and edit files. I would like all files in this directory and subdirectory to belong to mygroup I have changed existing files to have group mygroup…
justintime
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Compress and then encrypt, or vice-versa?

I am writing a VPN system which encrypts (AES256) its traffic across the net (Why write my own when there are 1,000,001 others already out there? Well, mine is a special one for a specific task that none of the others fit). Basically I want to run…
Majenko
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Keyboard shortcut for the Windows Explorer address bar

Is there a keyboard shortcut in Windows Explorer (Windows 7), to put the cursor into the address bar (where the current path is shown)?
M4N
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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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Windows command that returns external IP

Is there a command by which I can find my external IP of my router or my NAT\DSL Router, etc., eliminating the need to visit whatsmyip.net or similar.
Junaid Saeed
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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…
MechMK1
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Using Git across multiple systems without network access

I want to use version control but, due to security reasons, the server I'm working on has no internet access: I can only move files on a USB flash drive. Can I still use Git with this setup? Can I create small patches that I can apply on a Git…
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