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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 Canina‭

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Q&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 n...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Meta What should our take be on software recommendation questions?

Questions that specifically seek software recommendations (as opposed to asking how to accomplish a specified task) come with their own challenges that are to some extent different from those of ot...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A In Windows 10 21H1, how do I remove the weather report in the task bar?

Windows 10 version 21H1 added a weather report to the task bar, next to the system tray area. Since I can just look out the window instead and get accurate, up-to-the-second weather information, I...

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

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Q&A Connection closed by remote host in Putty with hosting provider says that the problem is not on their side

Fault isolation You need to take some basic steps to isolate where the problem actually lies. So far, it seems that you have tried with: one means of connecting to the Internet (presumably you...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Meta How would you feel about a merger with Linux Systems?

I'm posting the same answer on both sites, because the questions are basically the same. Personally, I am in favor of merging Linux Systems Codidact and Power Users Codidact, ideally by transferri...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Camera USB device in file explorer - why so slow?

I suspect that the camera is presenting itself as a USB PTP or MTP device. The fact that it is identified as a camera and not as a storage device certainly points in this direction. A quick check ...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y 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?

You certainly can use Wireshark to look for DNS traffic. First off, because of caching, I strongly recommend that you reboot the computer, and as quickly as possible start Wireshark, start monitor...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 UR...

posted 5mo ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Data transfer between computer system ports, as unidirectional or bidirectional

is it common to set firewall rules for ports to transfer data in only one direction (only inwards with incoming data or only outwards with outgoing data)? No. At least not strictly as stated....

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Why does my HTC Desire 610, running Android v4.4.2 and WiFi connected, falsely allege "your phone is up to date" and "no updates available"?

Your phone appears to be telling the truth in stating that there are no updates available for it. Mapping that fact to a statement that "your phone is up to date" in the message title is perhaps u...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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, becaus...

posted 7mo ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by Canina‭

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Q&A What actions should be performed to restore a website after a DDoS attack?

A typical DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service; which is a subtype of the broader class of Denial of Service attacks) will simply flood a host, or its network connection, with data. It's not uncommo...

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

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Q&A Is a local Apache a local web server?

Well, it really depends on what you mean by a "web" server. If you mean a piece of software that implements the protocols typically used for (the server aspects of) web browsing, such as HTTP, TLS...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭

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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 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A How can I get my browser to block a specific SVG (Discord server icon)?

You don't show enough of the document structure in the question to provide a fully fleshed-out example, but since it appears that you're now able to block based on CSS selectors and simply need hel...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 n...

posted 5mo ago by Canina‭

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Q&A 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 con...

0 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by Canina‭

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Meta Should we use more specific version tags for software?

Some questions, like my own In Windows 10 21H1, how do I remove the weather report in the task bar?, are specific to a given version of a product. Other questions are more generic, or apply to prod...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A How to stop all automatic Windows Update restarts on a Windows 10 Pro machine?

You can pause updates for a while, which should be good enough for your use case. The following looks like it'll work on at least Windows 10 21H1 Pro. Go into Settings -> Windows Update, and se...

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

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Q&A What's the pattern for how on/off sliders work?

Okay, this is driving me nuts with modern UIs. Back in the old days, it was easy: Checkboxes were either checked, crossed, starred, filled in, or whatever glyph the particular environment used for...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 ==...

posted 1y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Moved to a new OS version, didn't change project source, and now Datenstrom Yellow project won't build -- how do I debug this?

Based on Datenstrom - Troubleshooting, it looks like to turn on debugging, you need to edit system/extensions/core.php such that it says <?php define("DEBUG", 1); (The <?php may or may no...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Remapping backspace with Karabiner Elements

It does look like you have a syntax error in the JSON data. Specifically, you have a comma after the last element of a list on line 11: "from": { "key_code": "delete_or_backspace", <---- he...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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...

posted 1mo ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 RSTUDIO_PANDOC in .Rprofile. So you shoul...

posted 1y ago by Canina‭

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