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Find entity in a list of entities and give back another cell value based on which category it belongs to in excel
I want to find a nice way to get a specific value based on a category and another characteristic. I'll try to to exemplify it below;
Problems:
1) I want to check what category a certain entity ...
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Excuting Java processes on a remote Windows machine when Developing on Linux
My main development environment is in Linux. However, my execution environment for my application is on Windows. The language of choice is Java.
Is there anyway to setup IntelliJ to invoke the java ...
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HD projector with only 640x320
I'm looking at projectors and a lot of them are advertised as HD 1080p, however when looking at the actual specs, the native resolution is something ridiculously low as 640x320.
How can it possibly ...
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Virtual Box error after creating new VM
I have followed several tutorials thinking I was doing something wrong while installing virtual machines using VirtualBox.
It is important to say that I'm running Virtual Box on Windows 8.1
The ...
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A hacker installed vnc & remote management programs on my Macbook [closed]
A nasty guy I dated last year secretly installed a series of programs onto my MacBook Pro and I need help with allocating and removing them please. I haven't switched it on for 11 months so it's still ...
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"Computer guy" upgraded my processor, now screen had flickering color lines
After paying to have my 3.4 single core cpu upgraded to a pentium D 945. Computer is dell Optiplex gx620 and OS is windows XP. Has 4gb ram and the graphics card is geforce gt 430. I know it's not the ...
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Hide "Please Wait" during Windows 8.1 Shutdown
I'm trying to find out how (if?) to hide the "Please Wait" screen during a shutdown/reboot of Windows 8.1.
Being able to show a black screen or custom screen would be ideal.
Specifically, this ...
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Fully-Buffered RAM on a SuperMicro board?
My home server has a SuperMicro X7SBi board. Currently, I have 4GB ECC RAM (4x 1GB) installed. According to the spec page on SuperMicro's site, the board takes unbuffered RAM. A friend has a large ...
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Use Windows 8 Pro 64-bit OEM licence in VirtualBox [duplicate]
My notebook came with Windows 8 Pro. It never booted Windows, I erased it and installed Fedora on it.
I have to use a Windows system now, and I'd like to run the Windows 8 Pro inside Virtualbox on ...
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Sharpen PDF while preserving bookmarks and searchable text
There's a certain PDF of a book that I'm using, which contains bookmarks for all the relevant chapters and sub-chapters as well as searchable text (probably OCR'ed). Unfortunately, the text looks a ...
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how to create a YES NO notification for time?
I have a formula that shows hours and minutes of how long it took to notify a client. I need to create another cell to say YES if that notification is 4 hours or longer.
I currently have the formula ...
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Do Chrome extensions for one User have any access to other users?
I am trying to isolate any installed Google Chrome / Chromium extensions from my more private web browsing activity. My thought was to have two Chrome "Users", with more private browsing done in one, ...
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How to determine if it's a motherboard or CPU issue? [closed]
Note that I read the main suggested question and my situation is different, so that's why I'm asking again.
I'll explain everything in detail (this will be a little long, but I'll make it as short ...
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Thunderbird : Load remote images when going to offline mode
I already know I can change "mailnews.message_display.disable_remote_image" to false on config options for evade. The question is about loading remote images. If thunderbird downloads messages when ...
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Ubuntu goes black on startup
Whenever I start Ubuntu from the GRUB menu (below).
and it finishes this (below).
The screen goes black. This happened after I gained root access to my account and I needed to restart. After this ...
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Is uploading your openssh public key to ~/.ssh/ for a given user safe?
I like to upload my public key (eg: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) to various servers that I connect to on various networks for work. I use this same public key on Github. If I am on a shared user account and I ...
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Virtual networking using VirtualBox
EDIT 2: There's nothing wrong with the adapters. If I disable my two actual network adapters on the host machine so that the virtual adapter is the only one up, then everything works correctly. As ...
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Why do the subtitles get larger when I use HandBrake to copy DVDs?
I am trying to rip a DVD using HandBrake, but every time I do the size of the subtitles balloons somewhat, so that in parts they are off the screen.
I'm using Mac OS X 10.9.4 and HandBrake 0.9.9.
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multiple windows machine and keyboard layouts
I have 3 windows 8.1 machines. Laptop (Acer), Desktop (HP) and Windows Surface pro (MS). One has English keyboard, one has Danish and one has German Keyboard. Therefore I have added three layouts for ...
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How to cancel Ctrl+Tab navigation?
In Windows, if you hold down Alt, you can repeatedly press Tab to choose a different application to switch to. If you change your mind, while still holding Alt, you can press Esc and cancel the ...
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Windows 8.1 mark an account as a Trusted UAC Account
From what I understand in windows 8 if you want to use/enable UAC you get a prompt unless you hack an icon or use the local SYSTEM account. I am fine with this, however is there a way to make a ...
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Why do MinGW and MSYS have separate versions of gcc?
This is my understanding of the relationship between MinGW and MSYS.
When installing MinGW and its gcc toolchain, installing MSYS is optional.
With MSYS installed, you get bash and a few other tools ...
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What does mounting a drive on the /home directory do?
I am running a Rocks Cluster version of CentOS 6.5 and have two internal hard drives installed. When I installed the Rocks OS onto my machine it only made use of one of my two 250GB drives. I have ...
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Excel date & time formula-round up cell value
I'm preparing a report of usage statistics for a group study room reservation system we use at the library where I work. I've exported all the reservations from MySQL in Excel for the past year and am ...
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How do I access an IIS web server on a virtualbox from the network of host machine
I've a site running on IIS on a Windows 8 virtual machine.
http://localhost/RTStreamer/Ticker.html
How do I access that site from outside the host machine?
The host machine ip is 168.192.42.1
I've ...
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Excel to calculate summation with exclusion list
Say I have a table like below:
Task Time
a 1
b 2
c 4
d 8
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sum 15
When a task is finished, I would like to add strike line to the row and exclude it from summation. Adding strike ...
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Setting the GUID for a virtual machine inn ESXI server with vSphere Client
I clone a virtual machine from an existing one. I want to set the GUID parameter shown in the following picture.
For this I try to edit the machine parameters here.
I do this as per VMWare ...
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Limited WAN speed through Linksys E4200 running DD-WRT
Today we have upgraded our internet connection from 90 Mbps to 180 Mbps, only to find out speedtest.net will not give a result higher than ~96 Mbps.
If I connect directly to the modem, bypassing the ...
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Intel Rapid Start Technology seems less "rapid" than the default Windows start/wake
I have a Dell 7000 series laptop running Windows 8 with an Intel core i7 processor.
I often have to hold the power button to force it to turn off and then turn it back on again in order to wake it ...
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How many packets lost is "affordable" in terms of stable network?
Recently I've been having some issues with my internet connection. My mom complained that internet stops working sometimes and it comes back after a while.
It didn't happen to me, but did see it ...
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Emulating WinKey+ArrowKey Functionality from win7 to linux
I much prefer Linux over windows but one thing I've always found win7 to be better at was managing and moving windows to different parts of the screen. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I can ...
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pgp pass phrase not working in enigmail but does in command line
Hi I've been strugling with this issue of pass phrase and due to the amount of mail I have encrypted, I can't seriously change my pass phrase.
Here's the issue : Enigmail don't recognize my pass ...
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Windows 8 - Using External HDD as Storage Drive?
I wanted to know some opinions on a setup like this:
Have 2 External Hard Drives (1TB each) - I'll call them HDD1 and HDD2.
I would set most of my folders where I keep data (My Documents, My ...
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hp probook white screen with error cancel image and boot to next boot order
I bought HP Probook 440 G1 with windows 8 Pro. I am a ubuntu user so I wanted to install ubuntu with Windows side by side. I tried to boot it from USB or DVD ROM but was unable to do so. Then from ...
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How to completely remove leftovers of uninstalled software
I installed a piece of software a long time ago and have kept it up to date. Unfortunately, some of the features have recently been lost after an update.
I attempted to uninstall it from my system ...
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How to prevent hacked emails from sending out spam
I am new to this whole server admin thing ...
I work for a small company, in which I am the web developer & server admin (a job I was thrown into). Please note, before taking this job I did not ...
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Adobe Illustrator changes dimension to .001
I'm working in a document with properties and rulers set to pixels. I have several different closed paths (some are simple circles with 1px stroke, others are not-so-complex compound paths).
The ...
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How to use "date" to print tomorrow's day of the week
On CentOS 6 Linux I use date +%a in several cronjobs and scripts to generate logfile names like myprog-Tue.txt and this works well for me since many years.
But now for one program I need to delete ...
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Formatting data with regular expressions?
I wanted to format numbers all being exactly 8 digits long to to strings formatted like german date. E.g.
15081997 -> 15.08.1997
01012014 -> 01.01.2014
99999999 -> 99.99.9999
00000000 -> ...
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Windows 8 MsMpEng.exe high disk usage, uninstalled Defender, and now AvastSvc.exe
I recently disabled Windows Defender due to MsMpEng.exe randomly spiking up my computer's disk usage. I saw it from Task Manager->Details->I/O read and write bytes. The read bytes go as high as 12,000,...
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Change color of a cell based on the difference between 2 cells
My question is I have 2 cells, A1 and B1, I would like to have the color of B1 change color base on the difference of both cells. Example value of A1 is 10 and value of B1 is 100, as the value in A1 ...
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Windows 8.1 WLAN icon at taskbar not responding occasionally
I am using Windows 8.1. A strange problem i am facing from long ago since Windows 7. I have Intel Wireless N-1000 WLAN Adapter in laptop. Its working great and satisfactory for using WiFI networks. ...
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How to get a ISO with all the Windows Server 2008 r2 updates?
Server already have Windows Server 2008 r2 installed, but instead of checking for windows updates, that takes a long time, I would like to know if there is a way to download a ISO image with all the ...
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Laptop Brightness dims when charger is unplugged(no solution)?
Hello yesterday i bought DELL Inspiron 15 (3542) win 8.1. And noticed that if charger is plugged on, screen becomes brighter, and after unplugging dimmer. Of course i tried adjust screen brightness, I'...
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Establishing direct Ethernet-Ethernet connection from PC to Ethernet device
I am working with Ethernet based devices, similarly to http://www.rfcode.com/rfid-reader-inventory-tracking-system-m250-fixed-reader. Unfortunately, type of the devices I am using, have been out of ...
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DOS command to remove file_001.* copies, but only if file.* exists
I have a tree of directories containing files and sometime a copy at the same location. This copy is identified by some string, e.g. _001, appended to the original file name.
somefile.txt and
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Identical computers, drastically different graphical behavior
my friend and I bought our laptops at the same time, from the same place, and the same model. Nothing special, just the HP dv6-6c14nr. It was only $450 with an Intel i5-2450m, 4GB RAM, and a 500GB 5,...
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How do you add a top level group in Password Safe?
Password Safe is an application to help you track all of the passwords you use at various sites. It's good, but there's one thing which I really struggle with. I want to add a top level group within ...
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IE 11 stopped working after a power failure - Windows 8.1 64 bit
There was a power failure. For some reason this specific windows feature stopped working. The laptop remained on because it had a charge. However, now IE says "your last browsing session unexpectedly ...
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Can long range Wi-Fi work if one end of the connection is not using a high-gain antenna?
I am trying to understand how long range Wi-Fi works. As far as I know, Wi-Fi consists of Tx and Rx. When a laptop is connected to an access point (AP), the laptop is able to receive data from the AP (...