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The complete list of Alexa commands more »

Go to the Local Group Policy Editor (Type "gpedit.msc" in the run menu) Dig down to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Logon Options Open up the "Disable or enable software Secure Attention… more »

  # FORCE THE DISK SYSTEM TO ALLOCATE REAL STORAGE BLOCKS WHEN # A FILE IS CREATED OR EXTENDED TO BE A GIVEN SIZE. # THIS IS ONLY A GOOD OPTION FOR FILE SYSTEMS THAT SUPPORT # UNWRITTEN EXTENTS LIKE XFS, EXT4, BTRFS, OCS2. # IF YOU USE A FILE SYSTEM… more »

Clink combines the native Windows shell cmd.exe with the powerful command line editing features of the GNU Readline library, which provides rich completion, history, and line-editing capabilities. Readline is best known for its use in the well-known… more »

StExBar provides many useful commands for your everyday use of Windows explorer. And you can add as many custom commands on your own as you like. more »

If you have problems with your PC locking or going to sleep, caffeine will keep it awake. It works by simulating a keypress once every 59 seconds, so your machine thinks you're still working at the keyboard, so won't lock the screen or activate the… more »

How to execute perl without having to type the .pl extension For Windows you'll need to add ";.pl" to the PATHEXT environment variable. (given that the .pl extension is associated with the perl executable, which is always the case with a normal Active… more »

Ford Part Numbering Chart more »

Get a microwave safe bowl and add 1/2 cup to 1 cup of pasta of your choice. Add water to the bowl so the pasta is a couple of inches deep. Remember that the pasta will grow in size, so be sure to have enough water. You can always drain out the extra if… more »

Explanation of the differences between find 'exec rm' and 'delete' options. more »

find . -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.png' find . -mtime -7 \( '*.jpg' -o -name '*.png' \) # all .jpg or .png images modified in the past week find -regex '.*\.\(jpg\|png\)' find -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*\.(jpg|png)' find -E . -regex… more »

This resolved an issue for me where my INSTEON EZFlora was dead.   http://forum.smartenit.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1031 Repair of 2413S PLM When the Power Supply Fails   more »

Information on how To Tether Free on AT&T Android 4.4.2 more »

Info on removing Carrier IQ from Android phones more »

pear install MDB2-2.5.0b5 more »

Detailed steps on creating a Self-Signed Digital Certificate for Microsoft Office 2010. more »

This "How-To" can be applied to the exchange or replacement of either the 10‑mm or 11‑mm injection pump on an ALH engine, though the instructions will be slanted toward a manual transmission TDI. more »

Good article on performance tuning the 3ware 9000 series cards. more »

use File::Find; sub eachFile { my $filename = $_; my $fullpath = $File::Find::name; #remember that File::Find changes your CWD, #so you can call open with just $_ if (-e $filename) { print "$filename exists!\n"; } } find (\&eachFile,… more »

1. Log in to the system, issue the following commands and save their output for further reference echo "$DISPLAY" xauth listYou will see something similar to this: % echo $DISPLAY localhost:10.0 % xauth list ubuntu/unix:12 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1… more »

Various ways to add a prefix to every line in a file. more »

Webinar for the Elk-M1 alarm system. more »

Nice recommendations for installing alarm sensors. more »

Good instructions on installing fun plug to extend the D-Link NAS devices. more »

sudo mv /filename /etc/init.d/ sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/filename sudo update-rc.d filename defaults more »

Here are a couple of links to the information that actually helped me create some bash completion functions. How do I set up bash completion for command arguments? Writing your own Bash Completion Function more »

foreach (split(/\n/, $str)) {   if (/START/../END/) {     next if /START/ || /END/;     print;   } } more »

without ( and the need to escape it: find . -not -name "*.exe" -not -name "*.dll" and to also exclude the listing of directories find . -not -name "*.exe" -not -name "*.dll" -not -type d or in positive logic ;-) find . -not -name "*.exe" -not -name… more »

This is the HP-UX Porting and Archive Center - pre-built packages for HP-UX 11i more »

Single Directory: find . -path ./misc -prune -o -name '*.txt' -print Multiple Directories: find . -type d \( -path dir1 -o -path dir2 -o -path dir3 \) -prune -o -print more »

Exact file: find base_dir -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d '!' -exec test -e "{}/cover.jpg" ';' -print Multiple Extensions: find base_dir -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d '!' -exec sh -c 'ls -1 "{}"|egrep -i -q "^cover\.(jpg|png)$"' ';' -print more »

tar/gzip tar cvf - files_to_tar | gzip > tarfile.tar.gz gunzip/untar gzip -d < tarfile.tar.gz | tar xvf - more »