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Old 18th July 2008
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> Most shells have a vi editing mode.

Ofcourse, but somehow i prefer emacs keybindings for the shell.
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Old 18th July 2008
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I configured some favourite for hot keys in Opera, d for deletion, q for going to the top of the page, z for the bottom and so on. And that really pisses me off if I need to use a different browser. Sometimes I dont even get a single clue what is going on lol
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Old 19th July 2008
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Sometimes when i work behind a "full screen mode" VMware window... and nothing happens!? I hit the reset button of my computer...
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Old 21st July 2008
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Sometimes when i work behind a "full screen mode" VMware window... and nothing happens!? I hit the reset button of my computer...
Doh!

I use vmware server and I had to take the power buttons off the task bar because I get going in a hurry some times and will accidentally reboot a server or similar, bc it doesn't ask, are you sure?
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Old 22nd July 2008
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I give my machine a warm reboot and actually forgot that i was using VMware worstation...

...and Yes, I am sure.
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I give my machine a warm reboot and actually forgot that i was using VMware worstation...

...and Yes, I am sure.
If the host is Windows machine, Im pretty sure there is an option in "Power management" to de/activate the confirmation when you hit the power button
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Old 22nd July 2008
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If the host is Windows machine, Im pretty sure there is an option in "Power management" to de/activate the confirmation when you hit the power button
Nope. Take another guess...
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Display Properties => Screen Savers => Power => Advanced => When I press the power button...
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Old 22nd July 2008
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Display Properties => Screen Savers => Power => Advanced => When I press the power button...
I give up! you win.
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I am a System administrator and infrastructure consultant in a company with a Windows based architecture. At home I user *BSD.

Every time I get to work and need to make something work using the Windows Command Prompt I find myself using *nix commands.
ditto, ditto, ditto!
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Actually, I have a C:\bin\ folder which contains Windows version of most Unix commands ...

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
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And there's always Windows SFU (Services For Unix) but it's been, well, pretty sloppy so far. Like Cygwin on acid.
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My XP system has the GNU utilities for Win32, Micro$oft Services For Unix, and Cygwin installed...


Doing likewise and adjusting things accordingly will usually alleviate many problems of using unix commands on NT, although I've yet to find a solution to trying to use a 'dir /b' command on a system expecting /bin/ls program instead ^_^


I would think in a commercial environment just buying a DOS quick reference (or better yet one for newer versions of NT) would be a better solution then, say carting gnucky fried utilities around on a thumb drive.
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Old 28th July 2008
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I once had multiple consoles in my workspace, then when i'm going home i shutdown my own server and get ready to go home..the next thing i know before i go is that my server console is still there..idle..the first question i asked to myself is : if my server is still here, what did i shutdown before?.....

Company's main router's, which is also an email server....

Another story, i used to help my boss ripping his music CD and DVD's..for almost a month i spend 3-5 hours a day ripping cd's in his iMac.. one day, in the office, i want to copy some stuff from my friend's stuff.. i ended up trying to insert cd into my monitor, just like in iMac
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while editing files using notepad and some other editors, i press :w to save the file
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