Mac OS X Finder - How To Set Column Width(s)

"Right- or Control-click any grabber handle for a pop-up menu with three options: Right Size This Column, Right Size All Columns Individually, and Right Size All Columns Equally." (found here)

AT&T UVerse DNS Lookups Slow

AT&T UVerse DNS lookups were ridiculously slow.

On Mac OS X, use command line command "dig <hostname>" to test.  ("dig -h" for options.)

Solution:  Configure router to use Google DNS servers - 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

See this Reddit.

[SOLVED] Python difflib - POSIX default format or Gnu normal format?

It seems that difflib (and its example program) do not output differences in the POSIX default format (see http://www.unix.com/man-page/POSIX/1posix/diff/) or the Gnu diff normal format (see http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/diffutils.html#Normal). I wrote a pure Python implementation of the classic Unix "diff" program to produce output in the classic POSIX default format: https://github.com/glanois/code/blob/master/python/ppt/diff.py

Use ack inside Emacs

Paste this into your .emacs, reload it, and M-x ack:

;; https://code.google.com/p/emacs-nav/issues/detail?id=91

(defvar ack-command "ack --nogroup --nocolor ")
(defvar ack-history nil)
(defvar ack-host-defaults-alist nil)
(defun ack ()
  "Like grep, but using ack-command as the default"
  (interactive)
  ; Make sure grep has been initialized
  (if (>= emacs-major-version 22)
      (require 'grep)
    (require 'compile))
  ; Close STDIN to keep ack from going into filter mode
  (let ((null-device (format "< %s" null-device))
        (grep-command ack-command)
        (grep-history ack-history)
        (grep-host-defaults-alist ack-host-defaults-alist))
    (call-interactively 'grep)
    (setq ack-history             grep-history
          ack-host-defaults-alist grep-host-defaults-alist)))

Microsoft Word - Find Next/Previous

In Microsoft Word you can easily find the next/previous occurrence of a search string with Ctrl-PageDown and Ctrl-PageUp.

You are using the Select Browse Object controls to do this.

Details here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/getting-from-here-to-there-in-word-documents-HA001042963.aspx