cross-platform interview questions
Top cross-platform frequently asked interview questions
I would like my external drives to be readable and writable from Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
FAT32 works, but the 4 GB file size limit is a showstopper these days. Are there any alternatives?
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How to make gVim automatically maximize it's window when I open it? And a cross-plataform solution, I'm trying to use the same configs in a Linux and Windows machine...
I've tried the hack :set lines=999 columns=999, it almost works, but the window is not maximized, just resized and I lose some rows/columns.
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I want set icon to my folder in My external hard drive but when I change it (by right click on it and -> properties -> customize -> change icon (i address the icon from my extenal hard drive)) it just change in my windows and when plug my extenarnal-hard to another windows it's don't show my icon! how should fix this?
P.S: is there a way to set icon for folder show in all os (linux, windows, OSX, ..)
note: I don't want set icon to 1 drive > I want set icon to all my folder in my > drive.
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I would like to encrypt my hard drive so that it requires a password to access it. However features like BitLocker in Windows will only work under Windows, and cannot be accessed from another OS such as Ubuntu or Mac OS X.
How can I create a cross-platform encrypted file system?
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Is there any way to use Google Chrome on Linux (specifically, Fedora 8)? Is there a native version for Linux, or would I have to use Wine?
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I currently use gmail, but this question is valid for any client: What is the best way to backup and store my email so that in the future I will be able to access it on a variety of platforms and clients.
Update:
While using gmail is certainly cross-platform and they have their own backup system, I am still looking to backup my email myself so that I can definitely know I have control over the backup and storage. I'm fine with letting gmail do it for now, but there's no guarantees.
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Is it possible to mount the various disk image formats that Mac OS uses on other platforms?
I suppose one problem would be that the file system in that image is usually HFS+.
I am specifically interested in creating (AES) encrypted sparse bundles, so that I can securely store them for backup purposes. Being able to mount those on a non-Mac machine would be convenient.
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What is the best filesystem to use cross-platform (Linux, Windows, OS X) which supports disk sizes of at least 2TB and file sizes >4GB?
I'm planning to use it on a USB drive on different computers.
Are there any filesystems that can be used on all the named OSes without installing additional drivers?
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This is not a duplicate of this question
I watch videos on YouTube, Netflix, etc. Whenever I enter full-screen mode, I get the annoying "You've entered full screen mode. Press 'esc' to exit full screen mode".
Since I'm constantly switching between programs, I see this message a lot and am severely annoyed by it. Is there a way to disable these notifications?
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I do a lot of work on my home computer, ranging from programming, writing stored procedures and writing documentation and reporting. A lot of this work is university related and constantly swapping files across several computers is annoying at best.
I have a large final-year project coming up and I'm going to be sharing this work amongst home and university and require some kind of online storage that provides version control for my programs, as well as my Word documents, PDF's and saved academic papers.
Are there any good solutions for my problem?
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(Related to, but not the same as this).
I used to be an Android user but switched to an iPhone. There are a few apps that I would like to continue to use, but the idea of carrying around a second phone with me, or even having to charge one, isn't that appealing. They're free apps so piracy is not a concern here, and I've legitimately downloaded the APKs from the Market. Is it possible to sideload the APKs back to my computer and run them in the Android emulator?
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I'm looking to organize my files and folders and was wondering if there was a software that fits some of these criterion:
- Scans specified folders, and pulls them up so that I can easily identify what the file is
- Ability to "categorize" each file, or large amounts of files at a time and then sorts those files into folders titled as their category
- Possibly have "sub categories" that will then further sort those files into subfolders
- Ability to 'mass edit' file names and even metafile data
- Duplicate file detection
Most of the files that I will be working with are document files (.docx, .pptx, .pdf, etc,.) but I also want the ability to work with any filetype. Is there such a software, or combinations of software that takes care of this?
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I'm thinking about using compressed NTFS on my external USB harddisk. It should be used for backups only.
- Is it possible to access it from Linux?
- Is it reliable?
- According to Microsoft it's slower than normal filesystem. Given the transfer rate (30MB/s) and the processor (2.8 GHz Phenom II X4) I think the opposite may be true. What do you think?
- According to this question not all files get compressed. How can I avoid this?
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Why When I install Composer on Windows 7/8/10, or some UNIX-suited programs like GNU Tar, I need to set their Path value, and if I don't, they won't be usable by other programs?
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