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Emptying the Recycle Bin on an Empty Desktop

How do you empty the Recycle Bin when you don't have the icon on your Desktop?

Counting Lines in the Windows Command Line

This is a quick tip that I think everyone should know. If you want to count lines such as the following Unix command: $ cat *.EXT | wc -l You can do that easily in Windows with something like this: > type *.EXT | find /c /v "" Just a quick tip

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Windows 10 Workflow Tip: Multiple Desktops and Tiling

Windows 10 has the concept of multiple desktops. This is an extremely useful feature, but I suspect that most people use multiple desktops in only one of a few ways. For most people, multiple desktops serve as an organizing method at a relatively coarse grained level. They probably have a

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My New Favorite Feature in Github for Windows

Using git on the command line is a pretty slick experience. Besides being obscenely powerful, there are a lot of built in niceties. However, there is one feature in the desktop version of Github that absolutely makes my day. I'm not particularly disciplined in the way I write code. That

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Is the Leap Motion Usable?

When the Leap Motion debuted a lot of people were surprised at how much effort it took to get used to the system. Moreover, many of them were sorely disappointed at the level of integration between the Leap Motion and Windows 8. Some people noticed some of the limitations of

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Windows 8 Modern Terminal

The sandboxed limitations of Windows 8 Modern UI applications is fairly well known. Unfortunately, this means that it is impossible to write a Modern UI terminal in the way that we would normally. On the other hand, there are really good motivations for getting a terminal in the Modern UI.

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Securing the Internet: A Look at RetroShare

RetroShare Home Page The Internet today is a dangerous place, not the least because of the pervasively insecure practices of so many of its users. Many users do not understand how to properly secure their own machines. And the world is not dangerous because of crackers and invasive criminals; no,

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Dealing with Windows networking in SLED/OpenSUSE

I wasn't able to browse my Windows network when I first logged in with my SLED device, after much trial and error, I realized that the firewall disables this access. However, the confusing part is what service to enable to make windows browsing work. If you use the

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Arctic Repository 1.2

I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Arctic Repository version 1.2. This version brings a few nice things to the table, the nicest of which is Windows support for the sockets library. You can get the latest release from the Gopher Server:gopher://gopher.sacrideo.