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| Comment | Post #291170 |
Does https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-google-chrome help? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290920 |
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| Edit | Post #290920 |
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| Edit | Post #290920 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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A: Best practices for small, internet-critical company's ISP for maximal uptime > [Comcast] said normally small businesses get a plan from a second internet provider, for example AT&T, to reduce the chances of the internet going down. I am wondering if that is actually the best solution, or if it is an inefficient use of money. The typical solution to a situation where you ca... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290195 |
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| Edit | Post #290179 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: How to create a dump of a complete MariaDB how the data is at a single point in time? I don't have a ready answer to the question in the title, but with regards to > The plan was to disable the MariaDB service so that no new writes to the database can be made (that have a risk of not being included in the dump). This can be achieved without preventing access to the database engi... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290150 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: What does this suspicious URL structure do? I think to some extent, you actually answered your own question, possibly without realizing it. A URL is a specialization of a URI. (Or more technically accurate, a URI is a generalization of a URL.) URIs are required to specify a scheme (`https`, `mailto`, `gopher`, `tel`, ...) but they aren't ne... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290148 |
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| Comment | Post #290062 |
I found a workaround for my particular situation: [Windows Setup can read the `autounattend.xml` file from separate media](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/automate-windows-setup?view=windows-11#use-a-usb-flash-drive).
That was enough to address my immediate p... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290081 |
I seem to recall that you use Mac OS X. If you're running that `git` command in a terminal, you might be able to use `awk` to transform the commit hashes into usable links. Try something like:
$ git log | awk '/^commit/ { print "https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/commit/"$2 }'
You can do th... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290062 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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How to add a file to a >5GB bootable UDF ISO? I have a moderately large ISO image (>5 GB)[^1] to which I want to add a single file[^2], and I want to do that on Linux (preferably using only software which is available in Debian's main and contrib sections). I also need to do so without breaking the bootability of the image. After a lot of web... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289531 |
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| Edit | Post #289531 |
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| Edit | Post #289531 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: Determine encoding of text Determining the encoding of binary data representing text is a notoriously difficult problem, which basically comes down to probabilities. UTF-8 is one of the few exceptions that I know of, because even absent a byte order mark or out-of-band metadata about the character set and encoding, UTF-8 ha... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #288386 |
You should be able to open the DOM inspector and in the middle pane (the per-tag styles list) use the `:hov` feature on some element to see how the hover interacts with the rest of the document tree. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287505 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Adding option to pandoc call from RStudio I assumed that RStudio would get the path from somewhere, rather than it being hardcoded, and based on the response in a comment thread, that somewhere is `RSTUDIOPANDOC` in `.Rprofile`. So you should be able to adjust the path there, to point RStudio at a wrapper script that adds the parameter yo... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287373 |
Hi AZeed, and welcome to Power Users and Codidact! I'm afraid this question isn't really answerable *as it stands*, because "why" is inherently guesswork and opinion (unless someone in a position of having access to likely-privileged information sees this and decides to answer, any attempt at answeri... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287373 | Question closed | — | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287340 |
Building slightly on Olin Lathrop's suggestion, does rstudio actually invoke `pandoc` using an absolute path? I'm thinking that if it doesn't, you could put a small script in some directory that occurs before /opt/homebrew/bin in your $PATH. On the other hand, if it does, consider from where it gets ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287170 |
@#36377 I've added another possible solution (and a half). (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287170 |
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| Comment | Post #287170 |
@#36377 I'm glad I was able to help. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287170 |
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| Edit | Post #287170 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Setting a cookie with a userscript Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Greasemonkey will let you do this, at least not directly. Per GreaseSpot's description of `@run-at document-start`, that value maps to when `document.readyState == 'loading'`. Per MDN, this maps to that "the `document` is still loading". As far as I can tell ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287048 | Question closed | — | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286871 |
The domain name you used is actually registered by someone. I edited the question to use one of the RFC 2606 reserved domain names instead. Please edit further if my edit changed the meaning of the post. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286871 |
Post edited: example.com is among the domains reserved by RFC 2606 for example purposes; please use those instead of someone's actual registered domain name |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286831 |
Is it a hard requirement to use `cp` for this, or would other file-copying tools also be acceptable? (I imagine `rsync` just might be useful here, for example, but haven't looked in detail.) You tagged this "linux", so are we to assume GNU coreutils `cp` or do you need POSIX `cp` compatibility so tha... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286781 |
Given only an image, I think about the best we can suggest is to use an image editor (either GUI or command-line-driven) to make the change; that's clearly suboptimal, because it's going to be extremely specific to this one instance. But if you include *how* the image was generated, and ideally also ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286770 |
It's worth noting that the comment actually was posted; twice, even, presumably because you tried again once. (It would be great if you can confirm that you retried exactly once.)
I have deleted one of the two threads so as to not clutter up the page and risk the discussion being split between the... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286631 |
I'm all for letting people express themselves, so *please* don't take this as an attempt at censorship because it really isn't, but *please, think twice before you use the word "undoubtedly"* when introducing whatever problem you are asking about. You tend to use that one a lot in questions that you ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286631 |
A footnote reference isn't itself a paragraph, so the formatting for it is not a paragraph style; thus it's hardly surprising that you can't customize paragraph styling for it. I don't have an installation of Word handy at the moment, but since border formatting appears to be available based on the s... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286599 |
It would probably be beneficial if the question specifies the version number (by release number or build number) that introduced this behavior. Can you edit to include that information? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286554 |
Considering how much can be done with either, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if that setting can be changed through a Powershell script and/or using WMIC. That said, I don't really know where to begin looking for the correct incantation. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #286391 |
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| Edit | Post #286391 |
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| Edit | Post #286391 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: reduce gzip archive size if files are similar That Wikipedia quote is correct, yet somewhat wrong or at the very least misleading. A key term to understand is the window size (sometimes called the block size) of a data compression flow. By necessity, every compression algorithm works on chunks of data. These chunks of data can be large or ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286379 |
Sometimes graphical programs will emit diagnostic information to wherever they were started from. If you're starting the browser through the GUI, this will usually be invisible, but if you start it from a terminal, you'll be able to see it. I don't have access to a Mac, but it shouldn't be much more ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286378 |
Firefox stores your profile with settings in a hidden directory named `.mozilla` (actually `.mozilla/firefox/<something>`) under your home directory; in \*nix parlace, `~/.mozilla`). If you uninstall and reinstall the browser through the package manager, that would normally leave that directory untou... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286202 |
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