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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.

Posts by DavidCary‭

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

How can I ssh to a remote server from my Chromebook? A lot of the work I do involves ssh'ing to a remote web server, running software on that remote command shell, and testing things using a web...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by DavidCary‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A Determine encoding of text

quick fix I agree with Canina that you need to do two translations to fix this problem. Fortunately, it appears that you can recover the original text without loss. Try this: # first convert f...

posted 1y ago by DavidCary‭

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Q&A How do I set UTF8 in a Vim modeline?

Occasionally someone* occasionally modifies one of the files I'm responsible for with an archaic tool that decides to convert the updated file to UTF-16 (probably lossless) or an even more archaic...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by DavidCary‭

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Q&A How do I make animated dotted lines ("marching ants") in images on my web page?

How do I make animated dotted lines ("marching ants") in images on my web page? Some people have showed me diagrams online where the lines are animated dotted lines / animated dashed lines, where ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by DavidCary‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭