The disk management tools of Windows can adjust it to some level. But there are more space available as far as I can tell. How to further adjust the system partition (C:) size of Windows? You may check these tools: EASEUS Partition Master (free) Includes Partition Manager, Disk & Partition Copy Wizard and Partition Recovery…
How to erase disk partitions on U disks on Windows? Check the HDD LLF low level format tool: http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/ It is free for personal usage. Run it as Adminiatrator and you can choose to erase partitions and MBR on the U disks. Be careful that the operation is is recoverable.
SSH tunnel and port forwarding is great and convenient to use. But is it possible to set up a VPN like connection over SSH? If you are on Linux or Mac, you can use sshuttle: https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle If you are on Windows, you can use ProxyCap: http://www.proxycap.com/index.html Both are great software.
Can I get the fclose Q2A theme used here? I’d like to share it but I also want to keep my site a little bit unique. What about this: you can get the css and qa-theme.php files, but need to find or design your own icons for the site (I believe some icons from other…
I am using Fedora 20. I installed the rpm from Oracle for the Oracle JDK. How to set up the environment so that the Java environment is Oracle JDK instead of the OpenJDK? The Oracle JDK is install to /usr/java/ directory. On my Fedora 20, it looks like this: $ ls /usr/java -l total 4…
I am tired of the non-efficient “Print Screen” -> Paste in Paint -> Save way. How to efficiently take screenshot on Windows 7? On Windows 7 and later ones, the “Snipping Tool” is handy. Press the “Win” key and input “snipping tool”. The tool will appear in the menu. You can select the whole window,…
I share a ADSL modem via a Wifi router with several roommates. Sometimes, I find the network bandwidth left is too little. Suspiciously, some one is using BT, Thunder, eMule or other P2P tools. These tools can easily use up all the bandwidth and left little for others. How to prevent some roommates from hogging…
Cinnamon does not work well with gdm. And there is no meaning to use gdm when using Cinnamon. On Fedora, the default one id gdm. How to replace gdm with lightdm on Fedora? First, install lightdm if it is not installed yet: # yum install lightdm lightdm-gtk Then, disable gdm service and make the lightdm…
PuTTY is a great SSH client on Windows. However, how to save it’s profiles/sessions that I saved so that I can migrate my settings from one machine to another? PuTTY saves its settings in the registry of Windows. You can find it in the registry editor by run regedit under: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareSimonTatham You can save your…
How to use HP Printer connected with USB on Fedora Linux 19. Install these packages and it may ask you to download and install other plugins. Without these packages, my printer does work. # yum install hplip hplip-gui hpijs May also need to run: # hp-plugin to install plugins for the HP printer. This plays…
What are good PDF annotation tools on Linux? Preferring saving the annotation in the PDF instead of separate files or images. I find the best solution may be wine + Foxit Reader. Foxit Reader can annotate PDF files and save them. It works very well on wine. Steps to install them: Install wine # yum…
The –no-print-directory option of make tells make not to print the message about entering and leaving the working directory. However, how to specify the –no-print-directory inside the Makefile itself? Add this line to the Makefile: MAKEFLAGS += –no-print-directory You can also set MAKEFLAGS in a makefile, to specify additional flags that should also be in…
I backup my iPhone with iTune to my local computer. Where can I find out the backup files of my iPhone by iTune? And how to get the real files (like songs, notes, etc.) from the backup files? The location of the backup files from iTune It depends on the computer’s operating system: Mac: ~/Library/Application…
I come across some closed source software that only provides .deb packages. Fedora manages packages with rpm/yum. How to install the .deb packages on Fedora? Alien is a tool to convert .deb package to .rpm package: http://joeyh.name/code/alien/ In latest Fedora, the tool alien is in Fedora’s repository. You can use dnf to install the package….
This tutorial teaches how to set up SSH proxy on Linux. How to set up one proxy over SSH on Windows? A tutorial of using SSH tunnel as the proxy on Windows is introduced here: https://www.systutorials.com/tutorial/4696/software/proxy-using-ssh-tunnel-on-windows/
I have a local svn repository. I work in the repository, e.g. compiling latex documents and building software packages, and there are many useless temporary files there. How can I clean it up by automatically clean these temporary files like the git clean -f in git? svn seems has no built-in function for this. But…
What is the strcmp and strncmp implementation in glibc? strcmp implementation in glibc 2.16: string/strcmp.c /* Copyright (C) 1991, 1996, 1997, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU…
ANSI C is a standardized version of the C programming language that was introduced in 1989 by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The ANSI C standard defines the syntax and semantics of the C language, including its grammar. In this post, we will explore the ANSI C grammar in more detail. The ANSI C…
Windows 7 64-bit fails to install on VirtualBox on Linux with status code 0xc0000225: “Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer. 2. Choose your language settings, and click “Next.” 3. Click “Repair your Computer”….
Evolution is a great personal information management tool that provides Email, address book and calendar tools. Evolution provides many enterprise friendly feature such as native support to Microsoft Exchange connectivity for Emails, address books and calendars. Evolution uses various ways including plain files and dconf configuration systems. This post will give an introduction to the…