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Archive for December 14th, 2020

RAMBOOT – booting Linux into a RAM disk…

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/14

Interesting as this should work for other Linux distributions as well: [WayBack] RAMBOOT – How to booting Debian into a RAM disc for speed and silence. How to RAMBOOT. It’s a poor man’s SSD, or a way to get SSD benefits on a laptop … – Isaac Kuo – Google+

Via: [WayBack] RAMBOOT – How to booting Debian into a RAM disc for speed and silence. How to RAMBOOT. It’s a poor man’s SSD, or a way to get SSD benefits on a laptop … – Jürgen Christoffel – Google+

Covers: [WayBack] RAMBOOT is an initrd hack that loads the entire OS partition in RAM, making it run like an extremely fast SSD, at the expense of perhaps 1.5+GB of RAM.

A quick search revealed these:

–jeroen

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Copy files on Mac OS X using drag-and-drop | alvinalexander.com: secret is to hold the Option key

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/14

The Finder pure keyboard way of file copy+paste is using Command–C at the source position followed by Ctrl–Command–V in the destination position (in the destination position,  Command–V will do only a cut+paste) as the paste/copy decision is determined in the final stage.

This is unlike Windows, where Ctrl–C means copy, Ctrl–X means cut, and Ctrl–V finishes the initial action to copy+paste or cut+paste. 

If you combine mouse dragging, on the Mac it becomes Option–drag, whereas on Windows it still is Ctrl–drag.

I think the Windows ones are more consistent, especially when looking at them in table form:

Action Windows Mac
Keyboard-Only Mouse-drag Keyboard-Only Mouse-drag
copy+paste Ctrl–C; Ctrl–V Ctrl–drag Command–C; Ctrl+Command–V Option–drag
cut+paste (or move) Ctrl–X; Ctrl–V drag Command–C; Command–V drag

(table with help of HTML Table generator – TablesGenerator.com)

Mac shortcuts via:

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Listen Notes: The best podcast search engine

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/14

For my link archive: [WayBack] Listen Notes: The best podcast search engine:

The most comprehensive podcast database online. Discover best podcasts. Search podcast show notes and audio transcripts by people, places, or topics.

Via: [WayBack] interesting imo The Best Podcast Search Engine: https://www.listennotes.com – DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+

–jeroen

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FAQ Desk: Autosaving “unnamed” `new 1` files | Notepad++ Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/14

From [WayBack] FAQ Desk: Autosaving “unnamed” new 1 files | Notepad++ Community:

Check your directory %AppData%\Notepad++\backup\

–jeroen

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