A few days ago I have dismantled my laptop, but after fixing one issue another one popped out. The keyboard sends completely different scan codes, and I mean really. a became ;, d became enter, space became backspace and so on. I’ve checked scan codes using evtest and there are […]
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I created a scorecard in excel that imports data for a data source. A dropdown list is on created of different employee names through Data Validation from this imported data. Most days everything is fine but if the data gets refreshed when there was an issue with the data, and […]
Word is adding space between words as I type. Here is the layout of my document: It simply consists of two pages with the first page being vertically aligned at the center. In order to allow for a normal top alignment for the following pages, a section break was added. […]
I have a ThinkPad e508 running Windows 10 Home x64. I have been experiencing these strange issues where there is no audio coming out from the laptop speakers. Plugging in headphones using the headphone jack works fine though. The laptop’s current audio driver is Conexant audio driver 8.66.88.62. When I […]
I am trying to use INDIRECT to dynamically reference another spreadsheet, but I am getting a ref error. The formula that I am using is =INDIRECT("'"&B3&"["&B4&"]Assignment Grades'!E10"). When I take the input to INDIRECT and throw an equals sign in front of it, I get this as the output: 'c:usersahmeedownloads[MATH_110_Homework_1_scores.xlsx]Assignment […]
Summary Using read loop that runs a windows executable in WSL shell script causes it to exit the loop after the first iteration. Details I’ve been quite baffled by what appears to be an interoperability issue with running windows executables from a shell script in WSL2. The following while loop […]
I’ve traditionally used ls -C to get multi-column format. If I pipe the output through another command (e.g., less), I need ls -C to override the default single-column format. For some reason, I’m finding right now that it sometimes gives single-column output, and sometimes multi-column output but assumes a narrow […]
This is an OCZ Vertex SSD. I’m told that the first value (raw read error rate) is irrelevant for SSDs. I’m getting a lot of “WRITE FPDMA QUEUED” errors in terminal (why I’m in terminal is another issue, I tried changing the kernel and now it won’t run the old […]
I’m trying to get scratchpad to work on my i3wm setup. I’m following some directions I got off YouTube with it’s corresponding code. Even after my edits I can’t get it to work. I’d like for i3 to launch the application and then move it into the scratchpad so I […]