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Thunderbird bug report: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1704421
View ArticleComment by Nathaniel M. Beaver on Why does Firefox & Chrome run so slow on...
You haven't specified what kind of disk you are using. Both browsers use a lot of disk even when RAM is plentiful. Also, was this the same disk as the Windows 7 setup?
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@draca You're welcome! Please update your question to add this information along with your other comments so that anyone who reads this later can easily understand what's going on.
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View ArticleComment by Nathaniel M. Beaver on How can I stop `vmmem` process?
When I tried this in a Powershell admin window, the command just hung until I ran taskkill /f /im wslservice.exe in a different window.
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@hackerb9 Thanks, I updated the link to the bug repository.
View ArticleGenerate an alphabetic index from a spreadsheet
I have a text file of lecture topics from my physics class that looks like this:1/14,Galilean relativity,Einsteinian relativity,Minkowski space,Henri Poincare,,1/16,Lorentz transformations,Velocity...
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Both the F# and awk solutions work well with a few tweaks. However, I've decided to go with the following python script:#!/usr/bin/env pythonimport csv, sysmydict = {}for line in open(sys.argv[1],'r'):...
View ArticleAnswer by Nathaniel M. Beaver for Incrementally grepping a single text file...
I was able to get BareGrep working under wine:http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baregrep-2.00/index.php
View ArticleAnswer by Nathaniel M. Beaver for Why does rsync copy files after copying...
From the rsync documentation:Rsync finds files that need to be transferred using a "quick check" algorithm (by default) that looks for files that have changed in size or in last-modified time.Also,...
View ArticleIncrementally grepping a single text file with a configurable GUI [closed]
I have a fairly large text file (~1000 lines, Markdown format) that I would like to quickly grep for lines that include or exclude certain words. This is a large file, so I need the feedback of...
View ArticleAnswer by Nathaniel M. Beaver for Is it possible to use Firefox Sync to...
A bug has been open since 2008, but unfortunately this feature is still in the early stages.https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446444Mozilla hasn't been working very much on new features for...
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Answer by Nathaniel M. Beaver for Changing the page layout and canvas size in...
In LibreOffice 5, it is under the Format→Page/Slide Properties... dropdown:This will open the Page Setup Dialog. Under Paper Format, you can choose Format, Width, Height and Orientation...
View ArticleAnswer by Nathaniel M. Beaver for How do I use ffmpeg to get the video...
The output of ffprobe looks like this:streams_stream_0_width=1280streams_stream_0_height=720Technically, you can use evalto assign these to bash variables,but this is not necessaryand can be unsafe;...
View ArticleAnswer by Nathaniel M. Beaver for Why does Dropbox use so much memory on Linux?
Use pmap -x to show the extended format, including RSS:$ pmap -x $(pgrep -x dropbox)3015: /home/nathaniel/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-26.4.24/dropboxAddress Kbytes RSS Dirty Mode...
View ArticleWhy does this PDF appear to encode parentheses correctly but doesn't when...
Here are links to some journal articles:https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2183927https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2988135https://doi.org/10.1149/1.3021012https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2159298They all encode parentheses...
View ArticleAnswer by Nathaniel M. Beaver for Number Tabs in Chrome or Firefox
All of the linked extensions are gone now, probably because of the Firefox Quantum update.Fortunately, there is a new extension called "Tab Numbering" that does the same...
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