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Unaswered Questions

Date: 2008-01-25 | Tags: untagged | 2 Comments

If you know the answer, please leave a comment.

1. How do I unpack a tarball to a specific directory?

I know I can uncompress a tar file in the current working directory with tar –xvf mytarfile.tar. Can I upack it to another directory instead?

Useful Windows XP keyboard shortcuts

Date: 2007-11-06 | Tags: untagged

Windows+BREAK: System Properties
Windows+D: Display the desktop
Windows+E: Open Windows Explorer
Windows+L: Lock the keyboard
Windows+R: Open the Run dialog box ... read more »

Useful Firefox keyboard shortcuts

Date: 2007-11-06 | Tags: untagged

Lesser known shortcuts:
CTRL+E or CTRL+K: focus search box
CTRL+L: focus location box
CTRL+J: toggle downloads window
CTRL+U: show page source
CTRL+B: toggle del.icio.us bookmarks in the sidebar
CTRL+H: toggle history in the sidebar
CTRL+D: add a del.icio.us bookmark

Basic shortcuts:
F11: toggle full screen
CTRL+T: open new tab
CTRL+W: close current tab
CTRL+F: find on page
CTRL+PGUP: previous tab
CTRL+PGDOWN: next tab
CTRL+P: open print dialog
ALT+LEFTARROW: back
ALT+RIGHTARROW: forward
ALT+HOME: home

The NATO phonetic alphabet

Date: 2006-12-17 | Tags: untagged

Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India
Juliet Kilo Lima Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo
Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Yankee Zulu ... read more »

dumpel.exe

Date: 2006-10-25 | Tags: untagged

dumpel.exe dumps Windows 2000 event log data to a tab-delimited text file download at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c9c31b3d-c3a9-4a73-86a3-630a3c475c1a&displaylang=en run the command: dumpel -f dumpel_results.txt -l security -d 10 Does anyone know how to interpret the hex data output? ... read more »

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