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Q&A Matrix solution software

You could use Maxima. Some packages offer a GUI (Xmaxima or Wxmaxima, if I'm not mistaken), but you can use it in the terminal. Below, an interactive terminal Maxima session in which I define and ...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Open file from vifm in split view

I use vifm in split mode - it always shows two vertically separated windows each with a directory listing. From there I can open files using the right arrow. However when I open a text file, vifm g...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by mulllhausen‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Meta Who should the temporary moderators be?

Promoting this from a comment thread: samcarter has contributed a lot of both content and curation and would be a good addition to the moderator team -- and has confirmed in that thread that cats a...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How to add a partition of Disk 1, to another partition of Disk 0?

If you ask strictly about partitions, then you can't... One partition is on one disk, the other partition is on another disk. Therefore, you cannot combine/merge both partitions. One part(ition) o...

posted 3y ago by elgonzo‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by elgonzo‭

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Q&A Distinguish like I'm 5 years old — ArtBox, BleedBox, CropBox, MediaBox, TrimBox

Historically, books and magazines were printed on large pieces of paper, which were then cut into smaller pieces of paper. Even today large reels of paper run through rotary printing presses wher...

posted 3y ago by DavidCary‭

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Q&A A term that describes frontend redirects

As already stated, of course it's possible to do a redirection in the front end by telling the browser to request a different URL. Using Javascript is one possible method (some companies apparently...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Application check for updates will never succeed and blocks launch; can I intercept or bypass it?

samcarter gave me a clue in a comment by asking if the same thing happens if I'm not connected to the Internet. The software does detect that and proceed, fortunately, with the following message: ...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Application check for updates will never succeed and blocks launch; can I intercept or bypass it?

This isn't a direct answer to your question, but a suggestion. Try specifically disallowing internet access to this program in your firewall. That may cause the program to realize it can't get to...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Open file from vifm in split view

From the FAQ: No, unfortunately it's not possible. Allowing this would require embedding terminal multiplexer into Vifm, which is kinda silly because it is a file manager. The compromise is to r...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Can a Windows 7 installation be restored by simply restoring all its files?

I'm looking for a reliable and easy backup and restore system for the OS on a Windows 7 laptop (more details below). If I were to boot it to an external drive and back up all the files on the hard...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Pastychomper‭

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Q&A What program can automatically footnote different number of footnotes per line?

While I can't say for certain what tool the publishers used, you may wish to check out the para option of the LaTeX footmisc package. It automatically makes the formatting decision based on the foo...

posted 4y ago by Sigma‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Sigma‭

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Meta on-topic question in this site

Recently, most of questions got lot of downvotes(Even, this didn't happen to any other Codidact sub-site). In Q&A site's questions have 12 upvotes and 17 downvotes. I think most of people con...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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The obvious starting point is that in a site called Power Users, questions should be power users' questions. So to take a glaring offender: I never used OBS before. I'm computer illiterate. ... ...

posted 4y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A What are the differences between OBS' 4 encoders?

Open Broadcast Studio is a program to allow live mixing of video and audio sources. One might use it to direct a digital broadcast of a play using several live camera feeds and sending the result t...

posted 4y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A ELI5 these 9 methods to compare similar pictures – Hash, MD5, SHA?

A hash is a mathematical function that maps a large number to a much smaller number. Files can be considered numbers; graphics files are certainly amenable to that. For example, an MD5 hash is alw...

posted 4y ago by dsr‭

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Meta on-topic question in this site

A starting point is the proposal. I'm going to quote from the question and from this answer. Again, these are starting points. Our current short description: Power User Codidact is a communit...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Should we use more specific version tags for software?

This is one of the use cases that motivated tag hierarchies. If we make windows-10-21h1 a child of windows-10, then anybody searching for windows-10 will also see the questions from child tags by ...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Hot keys with AltGr for Windows 10

My Windows 10 laptop has a Scandinavian keyboard. Very convenient, as I can write the letters æ ø å with ease and ä ö with a couple of keystrokes. However, I am missing the quote symbols « and », ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by tommi‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Code of Conduct link in the tour is broken

Hi Power Users! The "Code of Conduct" link in the tour leads to this URL, which produces a 500 error for me. The issue is 100% repeatable. I'm currently using Firefox 88 if that helps.

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by gronostaj‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A With Datenstrom Yellow SSG, how do I generate lists of tags and recent posts for my blog?

I would like to use a static site generator to create a personal blog. I'm new to SSGs (but not to blogs). Following some initial research and recommendations, I chose Datenstrom Yellow for its a...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How can I export a long Microsoft Teams chat?

I would like to export the entire history (thousands of messages) of a conversation from Microsoft Teams. There is no "save" or "export" functionality evident in the Windows client. I found some ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A How do I start diagnosing why a Windows Server turns itself off?

We have a Windows Server, running Microsoft 2019 Essentials that is supposed to be on all of the time, but after a couple of days it will turn itself off, and then we have to manually turn it back ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A How do I start diagnosing why a Windows Server turns itself off?

I don't know much about the server versions, but for Windows in general, you'll want to peek in the Event Viewer. It contains all the logs, floods of information, most of it irrelevant and uninter...

posted 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Why can reversing the order of the same words 1. lower the total character count, and 2. eliminate the short last line of a para.?

There are actually multiple questions here, each with a different (though related) answer: Q1. Why does the last line disappear and/or the character count shrink In the example you provided in you...

posted 4y ago by Chris Henry‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Chris Henry‭

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Meta "No associated Stack Exchange site from which to transfer your content?"

At the bottom of my profile page, there's a section labeled "Link with Stack Exchange," but it says You can't link a Stack Exchange account to your account on this site because there is no assoc...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Chris Henry‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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