I launch some applications with extensions that are configured to open with other programs that are not launched as administrator. I have no option to open the program as administrator, instead I have to launch the launching program as administrator.

The efficiency of this power supply unit coupled with a fanless (noiseless!) design made this little unit hard to resist. After much debate, I went ahead and ordered one from newegg. The first thing I noticed after taking the PSU out of the box was the massive heat sink mounted on top where the fan would normally reside.

To make a web site icon file that shows up in the URL bar in a browser, usually 16×16 pixels in size named favicon.ico, all you need is ImageMagick’s convert.

Proxies are the devil. If you pick a random software application and try to do anything network related behind a proxy, it’s a coin toss as to whether the developer gave proxy support a second thought. In the case of git, it didn’t work right out of the box for me. But it didn’t take more than a minute to figure out a working solution either.

Here’s a short step-by-step how to unpack files to any custom location you wish. If you used this for some automated purpose, you could easily create and destroy the temporary structures on the fly by looking at the tarball contents first.