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Welcome to the Power Users community on Codidact!

Power Users is a Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware. We are still a small site and would like to grow, so please consider joining our community. We are looking forward to your questions and answers; they are the building blocks of a repository of knowledge we are building together.

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Q&A How to download all mail in Claws-mail

The correct way to do this is to run an IMAP syncing program automatically, to keep a mirror of all your email on your local machine. Then you point Claws at the local machine, not at the remote IM...

posted 3y ago by dsr‭

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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 3y 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 3y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A Is it possible to run the same version of MySQL on two servers, but use MySQL Community on one and MySQL Enterprise on the other?

Yes, you can do this. Remember that Oracle will eventually ask every person in the company "How many MySQL servers do you have?" Also remember that Oracle may make changes in their enterprise ver...

posted 3y ago by dsr‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A How effortlessly can universities check where you logged in? What other IT details can they determine?

Accessing any server involves sending from a particular IP address to a particular IP address; the exchange of packets includes the sender so that the recipient can send packets back. An IP addres...

posted 3y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A How can I ssh to a remote server from my Chromebook?

The Secure Shell extension is perfectly appropriate here. SSH keys come in two parts: a private key and a public key. The public key is placed on the destination server(s), in (for example) ~/.ssh...

posted 3y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A Android phone, name associated with incoming call?

This problem is not generally solvable, because there is no universal "Android phone app", and that is what is responsible for showing you a particular display name. Google supplies an open-source...

posted 2y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A Anti-Twin's Byte by Byte“ vs. ”Compare images (pixels)"

Images can be compressed to take up less space; most image formats automatically include this feature. There are two general categories of image compression. A lossless method is guaranteed to pro...

posted 3y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A Does changing a port address (number) necessates port forwarding?

When the ssh daemon starts up, it reads the config file for the interfaces it should bind to (listen on) and the port number(s). The default interface is "all" and the default port number is 22. T...

posted 3y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A Isn't Slug redundant, when Bleed oversteps the page and Bleed < Slug?

First: "actual stock" means the physical paper/wrap/billboard that your work is printed on. If this is an online-only work, there never will be actual stock. Different printing techniques have diff...

posted 3y ago by dsr‭

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