vim: how can i yank multiple lines into a register?

June 19th, 2013
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editing
vim

I want to yank multiple lines in a single register in vim, to easily paste different text templates in a document. For example, “iyy yanks only the the current line, if I try to select multiple lines in visual-mode, it isn’t written into the register. Any suggestions? Asked by ryz Answer Use 3Y to [...] Continue Reading »

Vlookup not working as expected for soccer data

June 19th, 2013
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microsoft-excel
microsoft-excel-2010
spreadsheet
vlookup

i have a vlookup function that is supposed to give me some data from another worksheet. the worksheet contains soccer data, specifically about the european cups of the past 3 years (9-10, 10-11,11-12, 12-13 isnt in there because its not finished yet, allthough dortmund will win ) anyway, the data is spread into two [...] Continue Reading »

How to Suppress Repetition of Warnings That an Application Was Downloaded From the Internet on Mac OS X?

June 18th, 2013
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download
mac
osx
security
warning

On Mac OS X, when I run Firefox (and Thunderbird, and …) which I downloaded from Mozilla, the OS pops up a warning that the file was downloaded over the internet, giving the date on which it was downloaded. I have no problem with that warning on the first time I use a downloaded [...] Continue Reading »

What is google parrot? [closed]

June 18th, 2013
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google

I’ve been browsing geekbench’s result browser and I stumbled across the “google parrot”. However, google search doesnt result in anything. Anybody got any ideas what this is? Also they seem to be running ubuntu. Asked by agz Answer Parrot is the BIOS version for their Chrome Book. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=220395 Many results if you look up [...] Continue Reading »

How can I find what /dev my DVD-drive is?

June 18th, 2013
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dd
devices
mac
optical-drive
osx

I’m on Mac OS X, have a DVD in the DVD-drive and can look at it in the Finder. I’d like to try to create an iso of it by using the dd command. But to do that I need to know what device to use as an input. How can I find what [...] Continue Reading »

Infer PGP private key using an encoded decoded sample

June 18th, 2013
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pgp
security

If I have both an encoded message and its original, is it possible to infer the private key? Asked by Ivan Answer No. that is the point of asymmetric keys (public and private) as you can easily encode a message with the public key (that’s what it is for) you have the de- and [...] Continue Reading »

RAID how many hdds can you add [closed]

June 17th, 2013
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partitioning
raid
storage

So I’m looking to build something for storing files, and my question is how many hdd’s a raid can hold? can I have a raid with a capacity of 100.000 TB or so? I don’t know how you would connect so many wires )) , but I’m new to this, so I’m trying to [...] Continue Reading »

How to keep Excel from using absolute addresses when clicking a cell while in a “range selection” window?

June 16th, 2013
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cells
microsoft-excel-2010

In any version of Excel (since 2000, at least), you can enter = into a cell to indicate that a formula is about to be entered and then click cell A1 so that the formula says =A1. This is a relative address and is the behavior I would expect. However, there are those special [...] Continue Reading »

Is there a Shortcut for “Mark all messages as read” in Outlook?

June 16th, 2013
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keyboard-shortcuts
microsoft-outlook
microsoft-outlook-2010
windows

I am trying to find a shortcut for marking all messages (eMails) in a folder as read by using a keyboard shortcut, but had no luck in finding one so far. I am using Microsoft Outlook 2010 and when I open the context menu (right click on the folder), it shows the “e” underlined [...] Continue Reading »

Switch between windows on Mac OS X?

June 15th, 2013
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keyboard-shortcuts
osx

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, but not between two different firefox windows. I am sure there is [...] Continue Reading »

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