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Change starting location of Explorer from Windows-E
How do I change which folder/location Windows Explorer opens to when I run it by pressing Windows-E? I'd like for it to open in My Documents instead of at the root of Computer.
I've found references ...
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What is the right amount of customization on your admin workstation?
I know many people spend lots of time tweaking their admin workstation based on the idea that it will make them more productive. I believe that a lot of this time is wasted.
They do things like:
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How can I modify the Ubuntu Server install CD to add a hardware driver?
I found this link to modify an Ubuntu install CD.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization
However, I want to put the Adaptec aic94xx RAID driver onto the disk so that my RAID ...
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How do you differentiate between a local and remote terminal?
It's not a common scenario, but I find myself accidentally inserting commands into the wrong terminal. I haven't damaged anything important yet; So before I do, what are some of the best ways to ...
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linux prompt: show current branch?
I want to have my command prompt to not display my username, but to show what git branch I am currently in. In other words, this is what I want:
[master]$ ls
README INSTAL whatever.py
[master]$ ...
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Parametric bind answers
I'd like to create some access policy by bind and I'm wondering if is it possibile to setup dynamic/parametric lookup answers in bind per-client. Something like:
// Answer to nslookup example.com
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Best way to build a minimal Linux appliance [closed]
I'd like to build an open source appliance that runs a Linux kernel. What are my options here? I thought about building Linux from scratch (LFS), include my software, and then build an installer that ...
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Customize right click context menu in windows xp?
How can I add a new item to right click menu for any file type and associate a action to this without using any third party tool. I hope it is possible using some registry hack..
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How do I restrict MediaWiki user groups from access to portions of my wiki by namespace?
In the release notes of Mediawiki 1.18 there is this line:
$wgGroupPermissions now supports per namespace permissions.
I cannot find the implementation within the documentation. The wiki page for ...
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Monit: Customize alert message to include command output
I would like to customize the Monit's alert message, so that whenever I get an alert, the email also includes the output of a command like top, so that I will already know more details about what ...
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How to customize Windows Failover clustering to trigger on failure of custom window service?
i'm a total newbie on windows failover clustering.
and what i want to do now is to setup the FC (failover clustering) on two win 2008 R2 server.
and right now i have my custom window service running ...
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Can anyone explain how does guest Customization on ESX work?
I'm using the vsphere perl sdk for this task.
I'm cloning a new VM (Linux and Windows) from an existing image and all I'm interested in is changing the IP address of the new clones. In case of ...
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Office 2010 OCT Outlook Filepaths
I'm playing around with customizing Office 2010 installs on my network, normally I just do a full manual install, but as the environment grows and the lazier I get its becoming a pain to do it ...
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Is it possible to modify the Notification and Alert Settings for all users on Windows 7?
We are testing moving users to from XP to windows 7. One of the first complaints we got is that the default behavior for Communicator 2007 doesn't show the "pop-up" notifications when you first ...
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Determining the minimum set of packages while building a customized Ubuntu install CD
I am customizing an Ubuntu install CD. The requirements are that everything needed be included on the CD. I'd also like to remove everything that's not needed. The use case is not a general purpose ...
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How do you get back Recent Documents feature that was in XP on Windows7?
How do you get back Recent Documents feature that was in XP on Windows7?
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Can I hook PowerShell to call a function each time I execute a command?
I want to change the title of the PowerShell window to the command line of the currently executing process inside it, just like CMD.EXE does.
Can I do this in PowerShell?
Is there some function like ...
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Is it possible to customize Ubuntu's boot screen?
When we boot up a Ubuntu CD, it will first pop-up a language selection screen and let us choose a language.
Then, it will show us a list of options that we can do using this CD:-
Try Ubuntu without ...
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how do I save ubuntu terminal tab configuration so it will be the same on startup? [closed]
I have a certain configuration I find comfortable to work with, number of tabs open, title of each tab and sometimes a different background color. Is there a way to save this configuration and load it ...
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how to customize debian installation cd for your needs
I have with me a Debian CD, which I want to customize for my own needs.
I have extracted the CD and started to change some parts of it, e.g Splash screen (splash.png) installer Title (through ...
