Disable hibernate (Windows 7)

To disable hibernate (and delete hyberfil.sys file), do the following:

Method 1:

1. Open a Elevated Command Prompt.

2. Type powercfg -h off

dos2unix missing (Ubuntu 10.04)

Yet another "feature" from the developers of ubuntu to simplify life. "dos2unix" and "unix2dos" are missing in version 10.04 (Lucid).

First of all, install dos2unix package:

sudo aptitude install tofrodos

Then if you want "dos2unix" type "fromdos" and if you want "unix2dos", type "todos". If you have a habit of typing in the old commands, its best to create links.

Go to /usr/bin:

username@linuxbox:/usr/bin# sudo ln -s fromdos dos2unix
username@linuxbox:/usr/bin# sudo ln -s todos unix2dos

Mount /tmp as ramdisk

To increase performance on your linux box and decrease IO waits for applications that use /tmp, you can mount it as a ramdisk. The process is simple, just keep in mind that it gets cleared any time a system is rebooted.

Open fstab using whatever editor you prefer:

sudo vim /etc/fstab

Find MAC address (Windows 2000/XP)

Q. How do I find my MAC (Media Access Control) address in Windows XP?

A. Follow these steps:

1. Click the Start Button and choose the Run command from the Start menu.

Find MAC address (Windows Vista)

Q. How do I find my MAC (Media Access Control) address?

A. Open command prompt window:

1. Click the Start Button and select Start Search

Excel 2007 is slow to open

Q. Excel 2007 is slow to open document, both over the network and local files.

A. There are many things that can be wrong here. One of them is associated with Adobe Acrobat professional. There's a file, called PDFMaker.xla that slows things down (its an addon for Excel to create PDFs). Go to the following directories and remove that file: