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What does the number on the visual studio solution icon represent?

Just out of curiosity - what does the number represent? At first I thought it was simply the version/year, because I saw some 10's and some 8's (I have vs 2010 and 2008) but, then why do I have some 9's aswell?

Is it possible to find out the version/edition of a Windows 7 installation by looking at files on the hard disk?

Is it possible to find out what version of Windows 7 I have installed (for example Home Premium 64-bit) by looking at the files on the disk?

The disk I have is a MBR installed Windows 7 copied to a GPT formatted disk, and the bootloader is kind of out of order, so I can't verify.

Also, for whatever reason I have not been able to open the registry on the disk, so a method that does not need it is preferred.

Is the version string stored in any file?

How do I find out what version of Linux I'm running?

Is there a way to determine what version (distribution & kernel version, I suppose) of Linux is running (from the command-line), that works on any Linux system?

How do I determine if an unbootable copy of Windows is a 64-bit or 32-bit installation?

I need to reinstall Windows on a laptop. I have the product key (its on the laptop), and I know it is Windows 7 Home Premium.

I need a way to determine if 64-bit or 32-bit Windows is installed, so that I can download the correct one from Microsoft. The computer is messed up so I do not have access to Windows to check it with systeminfo.

I took out the hard drive and hooked it to another computer, but when I run systeminfo it just gives information for the host computer, I did not see a way to change this.

Which IE6 is the newer one?

I have two copies of IE:

Version: 6.0.2900.5512
Update Versions : SP3

and

Version 6.0.3790.3959
Update Versions : SP2

Which one is the newer one? T_____T

Version number of Windows 7 from its image (iso,..)

How find out version number of Windows 7 from its DVD image before installing it?

What version of .NET am I running?

In Windows 7, how do I tell what version of the .NET framework I have installed?

In previous operating systems, (i.e. Vista/XP), I was able to go to Add/Remove Programs and it'd show all the versions of .NET Framework installed. With Windows 7, I just see "Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile" (in the Programs and Features control panel).

My guess is that it is only showing the latest/largest version number for my .NET framework install?

Note: I did also check Programs and Features > Installed Updates, to see if all installed .NET framework versions were shown there, but no luck.

How can I tell which Google Chrome channel I'm running?

Is there a way from within Google Chrome to know whether I'm running the stable, beta, or dev channel?

I was experiencing problems with recent dev releases and decided to go back to stable. Now I want to make sure it worked.

In "About Google Chrome" is says

14.0.835.186 m

Does that m stand for stable perhaps?

By the way I'm on Windows but I assume there's a platform-independent way to check?

How to find out Mac OS X version from Terminal?

I know how to find Mac OS X version from GUI: Apple Menu (top left) > About This Mac

Is there a Terminal command that will tell me Mac OS X version?

how can I check which version of vim I have installed?

I'm running Mac OS X Snow Leopard. How can I check which version of vim I have installed?

Ideally I'd like to know a general solution for checking software versions via the command line.

How to find out xorg version? or "what's my xorg version?"

ATI docs says i need:

XOrg 6.9, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 or 7.6

Xorg -version says:

X.Org X Server 1.11.1.902(1.11.2 RC 2)
[...]
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[...]
xorg-server 2:1.11.1.902-1

ls version number sorting Mac OS X

Is there an equivalent to ls -v in Mac OS X that will do version number sorting?

In Mac OS X, ls -v does NOT do version number sorting, but the Finder seems to.

Why does Windows 7 have a seven in its name?

Windows 7 reports its version as:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

And by my reckoning it was preceded by:

1. Windows 1.0
2. Windows 2.0
3. Windows 3.0 & 3.1
4. Windows 95
5. Windows 98
6. Windows Millenium (the Windows that never was)
7. Windows NT 1
8. Windows NT 2
9. Windows NT 3
10. Windows NT 4
11. Windows 2000
12. Windows XP
13. Windows Vista (how appropriate)
14. Windows 7

Assuming I haven't missed any, that makes Windows 7 the 14th major version of Windows. Even if you omit NT 1 - 4, it's still the 10th major consumer version.

Does anyone know why it was branded "7"?

How to specify which GCC for MacPorts to use?

I compiled GCC 4.4.3 and installed it in /usr/local/bin, but whenever I install a port via MacPorts 1.8.2 the verbose output says MacPorts is using /usr/bin/gcc-4.2:

checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc-4.2

How do I make MacPorts find my own GCC 4.4.3? Here is my existing path:

/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/lib:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin

I am running Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard.

Can I have multiple versions of Microsoft Office installed?

Is it possible to have multiple versions of office installed on the same machine without use of a VM? i.e. Office 2003 and Office 2007?