Ah, I see. It does seem OK, though on my keyboard (Kinesis Advantage) it is a bit of a stretch. Gnome 3 will take a bit of getting used to, but there are some really good things about it.
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Ah, I see. It does seem OK, though on my keyboard (Kinesis Advantage) it is a bit of a stretch. Gnome 3 will take a bit of getting used to, but there are some really good things about it.
Ooooh, I have a Kinesis Advantage too.
In the past it was primarily hooked up to a PC, but I've been using it on a Mac lately, and have been struggling with shortcuts. Essentially I just have ctrl and alt swapped around, for ease of Mac shortcuts, but I'd have generally the same problems on Gnome:
I've got ctrl+tab doing what alt+tab normally does. (which is fine)
Alt+tab doing what ctrl+tab normally does. (Which is a bit awkward, maybe my hands are just too small.)
Ctrl+` is probably about as awkward as alt + ` would be.
I'm not certain how to fix these, maybe I'll try some more remapping and post back...
In the past it was primarily hooked up to a PC, but I've been using it on a Mac lately, and have been struggling with shortcuts. Essentially I just have ctrl and alt swapped around, for ease of Mac shortcuts, but I'd have generally the same problems on Gnome:
I've got ctrl+tab doing what alt+tab normally does. (which is fine)
Alt+tab doing what ctrl+tab normally does. (Which is a bit awkward, maybe my hands are just too small.)
Ctrl+` is probably about as awkward as alt + ` would be.
I'm not certain how to fix these, maybe I'll try some more remapping and post back...
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I have a question. Am I the only one who ends up with huge text files of various text snippets pasted into Notepad for later usage? I was just cleaning out my documents and I have a lot of them, especially since Firefox likes to wipe your clipboard when coming out of private browsing mode. I'm actually trying out various programs now to find a suitable replacement (personally, I'm impressed with this one)
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You aren't the only one. I occasionally do that. The case the comes to mind is when I write up a nice post on CFC, then hit the post button, and sometime in that interval CFC has gone down. In that case, if it's something I cared about, I'll save if off to a text file for when CFC comes back. Fortunately, this hasn't happened in probably more than half a year.
I guess the main other case I'm thinking of is writing things for real-life use in Notepad, instead of on a post-it. Some of those wind up living way longer than if they'd been on a post-it. But those are usually small.
Although for me Notepad serves the purpose fairly well. I usually only need it in the near-term future, when I can find it by date modified even if I didn't name it well.
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Yeah. In my case though I ended up with multiple ones huge ones. I'd leave the file open until I had to reboot and then save it. For me, reboots are fairly rare, maybe twice a month if something acts up.
Another question: I have a bunch of what I assumed was an Epoch (Unix) timestamp, example: 1292251452000000. Whenever I run them through a parser it spits out an error about it not being a valid timestamp... etc. One of the tools I tried gave me a date of Oct 26 42919, which is a little off the mark, I believe, for a timestamp that was supposed to be within the last two years. If it's not a Unix timestamp, apparently, what is it? It's definitely a timestamp of some kind that much I know.
Edit: Actually, they are Epoch timestamps. I noticed all of them had those trailing 0's at the end and decided to lop them off to see what would happen. That particular one was 9:44:12 13/12/2010.
Okay, more than two years, but close enough estimate.
Can someone explain it to me, though, if they know what's up with the trailing 0's? If it matters, the timestamp's from a Firefox bookmarks JSON backup. I opened it up in Notepad++ to see if it would parse (actually, more or less to see if it crashed) and it did.
Another question: I have a bunch of what I assumed was an Epoch (Unix) timestamp, example: 1292251452000000. Whenever I run them through a parser it spits out an error about it not being a valid timestamp... etc. One of the tools I tried gave me a date of Oct 26 42919, which is a little off the mark, I believe, for a timestamp that was supposed to be within the last two years. If it's not a Unix timestamp, apparently, what is it? It's definitely a timestamp of some kind that much I know.
Edit: Actually, they are Epoch timestamps. I noticed all of them had those trailing 0's at the end and decided to lop them off to see what would happen. That particular one was 9:44:12 13/12/2010.
Okay, more than two years, but close enough estimate.
Can someone explain it to me, though, if they know what's up with the trailing 0's? If it matters, the timestamp's from a Firefox bookmarks JSON backup. I opened it up in Notepad++ to see if it would parse (actually, more or less to see if it crashed) and it did.
Hello, I was advised to come here about a problem I'm having getting an old game to work on a newer operating system. It's called Evolution: The Game of Intelligent Life (kind of pretentious name I know but it's a decent game). It's the Windows 95 version, I think (or 98 I can never remember the difference). I used to have the disc copy and I had it working as recently as a year ago on Windows 7. I uninstalled it for a while but kept the disc. Unfortunately I lost the disc, searched high and low for it, no sign, possibly thrown out by accident because I don't live alone.
I downloaded a copy and it wouldn't work at first until I followed some steps from others who had the same trouble and fixed it. Now it gets as far as the game set-up window. I can change the settings and type in my player name, and then I press start and it loads. All the game windows appear, including the minimap and then the program stops responding and needs to close. The overworld window remains blank. I couldn't find a crash log or anything in the game files.
Does anyone here know what I could try?
I downloaded a copy and it wouldn't work at first until I followed some steps from others who had the same trouble and fixed it. Now it gets as far as the game set-up window. I can change the settings and type in my player name, and then I press start and it loads. All the game windows appear, including the minimap and then the program stops responding and needs to close. The overworld window remains blank. I couldn't find a crash log or anything in the game files.
Does anyone here know what I could try?
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No clue, but maybe mess around with running this in emulation mode.
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If you have a copy of Windows 9x or XP, you can load it up in VBox and give it a try. DirectX support is a little weird on it though last I checked, don't know if your game uses that (or OpenGL, I suppose).
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How do I open up a multi-gigabyte text file, or at least chop it up into files that won't crash any text editor I try?
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Notepad++ will probably work. But I strongly recommend thinking of a way of accomplishing your goal without opening a multigigabyte text file.
My solution would probably be to delete it.
Or if it's important, to write a script to import it to a useful database format.
FWIW, Notepad++ appears to have a hard 2GB limit.
You're really going to have various amounts of problems trying to open files larger than your RAM, any program that does it well isn't really opening the entire thing anyway, and then you might as well use a more appropriate tool for what you need to do.
You're really going to have various amounts of problems trying to open files larger than your RAM, any program that does it well isn't really opening the entire thing anyway, and then you might as well use a more appropriate tool for what you need to do.
My question: Does "top" report the real CPU load, or could the network be maxed out and top still report the CPU load as 100%? I have a process that has 192 cores to do the number crunching and 64 cores to do the database work. Top says the CPU's are maxed out on the database server, so I optimized the query and took the read load off it but the process has not speeded up and the DB is still maxed out. I suspect the network bandwidth, but would have expected this to show up as <100% CPU load. Also, any recommendations for network bandwidth monitoring? [EDIT] This is on Fedora running mysql.
One text editor that would open it would vi (though you may not easily be able to do what you want). It is a unix tool, I do not know how to get it too open a file on a windows system, cygwin may do, as may something here but you may have to install a virtual box. Considering the questions you come up with here, I think you would benefit from that.
The way I would do it would be with code. For example, you could install perl and copy some of the examples here. It is a fairly long winded way to solve your problem, but again considering the questions you come up with here, I think you would benefit from the learning process.
[EDIT] Another way, using unix tools, would be something like:
wc -l filename.txt # get number of lines in the file
2000000 # say 2 million
head -50000 filename.txt > file1.txt # get the first 50k lines into new file
head -100000 filename.txt | tail -50000 > file2.txt # get the next 50k lines into new file
etc... if you want many of these you could generate the lines in excel or something.
I get them all the time. Web server logs when someone forgets to take out debugging info is an example.
One text editor that would open it would vi (though you may not easily be able to do what you want). It is a unix tool, I do not know how to get it too open a file on a windows system, cygwin may do, as may something here but you may have to install a virtual box. Considering the questions you come up with here, I think you would benefit from that.
The way I would do it would be with code. For example, you could install perl and copy some of the examples here. It is a fairly long winded way to solve your problem, but again considering the questions you come up with here, I think you would benefit from the learning process.
[EDIT] Another way, using unix tools, would be something like:
wc -l filename.txt # get number of lines in the file
2000000 # say 2 million
head -50000 filename.txt > file1.txt # get the first 50k lines into new file
head -100000 filename.txt | tail -50000 > file2.txt # get the next 50k lines into new file
etc... if you want many of these you could generate the lines in excel or something.
I get them all the time. Web server logs when someone forgets to take out debugging info is an example.
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It's a logfile from WinHTTrack. I wanted to get the errors out.
The file is actually close to 40 gigabytes in size. 7z compression got it down to 40 MB. Notepad++ wouldn't open it, and I tried several others and either they told me it was too big or just crashed.
If you can restrict what you want out of the file to lines containing a certain text, this is easy with unix tools:
grep errorSting filename.txt
then you get lines like:
01234 errorString the error message
05789 errorString another error message
you could then look at this a page at time:
grep errorSting filename.txt | more
or look at the first 5 lines
grep errorSting filename.txt | head
or look at the last 5 lines
grep errorSting filename.txt | tail
or put all the lines into a text file
grep errorSting filename.txt > errorStings.txt
This is exactly what these tools have been designed for, I think you need some implementation of them. Just ask if you want more help making some solution work, there are many.
I hope noone minds me repeating my question, as it was on the last post of the last page:
My question: Does "top" report the real CPU load, or could the network be maxed out and top still report the CPU load as 100%? I have a process that has 192 cores to do the number crunching and 64 cores to do the database work. Top says the CPU's are maxed out on the database server, so I optimized the query and took the read load off it but the process has not speeded up and the DB is still maxed out. I suspect the network bandwidth, but would have expected this to show up as <100% CPU load. Also, any recommendations for network bandwidth monitoring? [EDIT] This is on Fedora running mysql.
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Thank you.
