Month: February 2013
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Windows 7 – Stopping a Wacom pen from right-clicking on a long press (aka press and hold)
This is a personal bugbear which I encounter every time I reinstall a W7 OS. The problem is that when you hold the pen down – like you might when you’re trying to highlight text – Windows has a default setting of assuming that you wish to right click, which interrupts the selection you…
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How to find number of cores in Ubuntu (or other versions of Linux)?
If you’re using a virtual server (whether online or your own physical machine) it can be handy sometimes to check how many CPU cores are available; here are two easy methods of doing this. The first: nproc This will return a single number, whether it be 1, 2, 4 or otherwise. For…
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Finding /var/log/auth.log in CentOS 6
This one is straight-forward – if you’re used to Debian and are in a CentOS system looking for /var/log/auth.log you’ll find it in: /var/log/secure Short and sweet!