If you are using Putty to connect to your Linux box and have encountered issue that your ncurses apps look ugly and with garbled text like:
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Migrate Outlook AutoComplete list to another computer
Look into following folder on your PC:
[YourDrive]:\users\[YourProfile]\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
Search for the file with extension .nk2
Close Microsoft Outlook then select yourfile.nk2 file and copy it to external drive or over network to another computer in the same Outlook folder.
Start Microsoft Outlook again and your address book will be available again on your new computer.
Cron @reboot execute command on system start like rc.local
Everyone knows that crontab entries look like this:
* * * * * /usr/local/bin/my-script
Which will execute command “my-script” every minute.
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How to obtain Windows FullAccessMode
Create a folder on your desktop named:
FullAccessMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Force Xbian resize partition when moving to bigger card
I have encountered this when moving my Xbian installation from 8GB card to 32GB one. The solution is to copy everything and force it to resize to 32GB.
1. dd copy old SD card to new bigger SD card (for example:
dd if=/dev/sdd of=/dev/sde bs=4M
where sdd is your old card and sde is your new SD card. Continue reading “Force Xbian resize partition when moving to bigger card”