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My work place intercepts SSL connections, looks at their contents, and then passes the data to and from my machine and remote hosts – a kind of man-in-the-middle attack. This is not uncommon in corporate or enterprise environments. Now I have a virtual machine running on my computer. The virtual machine does not have the […]

After having poorly handled the PATH system variable (resulting in deletion), I’m now looking to reinstate the variable with the original value.I found answers like this one about Windows 8 and below, but not for Windows 10. I guess values are virtually identical, but I’d like to know the exact string so I’m not missing

  I would like to just select (¬Q) without word selecting both brackets. I know if I move my cursor back to the same position word will select correctly, but it’s annoying to have to do that every time. Is there any setting to disable this? Solution: Under File/Options/Advanced, there is the option ‘When selecting,

I have a folder with: TVShow – Episode 01.mkv TVShow – Episode 01.srt TVShow – Episode 02.mkv TVShow – Episode 02.srt TVShow – Episode 03.mkv TVShow – Episode 03.srt and so on… I already know that I can do this with MKVMerge one by one. This would take a considerable amount of time so… I

I often forget to run a command with sudo, so I find myself often typing sudo !! immediately afterwards. I tried aliasing this, but bash chokes on the !! part. Is there some way to represent this shortcut within an alias? Solution: AIUI the problem is that history substitutions (!!) are done before alias substitution.

Here’s an example drwxr-xr-x+  6 reza reza        204 Mar  5 20:23 .ssh/ Although I am the owner of this directory, I cannot modify it without using sudo! Why is that? how can I remove ‘+’ here (assuming that is the problem)? Solution: The + is an indicator that there is an extended file ACL applied

Note: TL;DR, scroll to bottom for summary. I recently set up my computer for a dual boot between Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7. My current drive setup is as follows. | A1 |     A2       || B1    |  B2  | B3 |   A1: 100 mb, windows 7 “System  Reserved” boot partition     A2: 230 gb,

Is there a modifiable equivalent of “swappiness” in Windows 7? My system has 8GB of RAM which is more than enough for my day-to-day use. I’d like to modify swap behaviour, what *NIX systems call swappiness and set it to 0, as I’ve done on my Ubuntu machine. I’ve searched the Web for this but

My conventional hard drive is clicking (second time this year I’ve killed the drive), so I just bought a SSD to benefit from the lack of moving parts. However, I am deathly afraid of using this as the only drive in my laptop running Windows 7, because the swap file is going to kill the

I need to link a file to C:WindowsSystem32driversetchosts How can I do that with Windows ? Is there a soft link such as ln -s or equivalent in Windows ? Solution: You are looking for the command “mklink”. Documentation and examples in Microsoft Docs or ss64.com. Example taken from the link: // To create a