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I’ve written a script that lets me specify a range of files in a directory, say 10-20, or just the first ten, or the last ten, etc, and then the script feeds just those files to my chosen image viewer, Irfanview. I included options to sort the files alphabetically, or […]

A voluntary organization that I work with has a database to keep track of our clients who are mainly elderly. In that database is a form to record new clients which contains a field for ‘Date of Birth’. However, unless you put the year in as YYYY, it will default […]

I have clients who say emails they deleted keep reappearing after they load Firefox. This is clearly the local-disk preload feature (I don’t know the proper name offhand) that is supposed to make Firefox appear faster. I have encountered this issue myself numerous times and I don’t know how to […]

I’m using a Kerberos client in Windows 11 that has some unusual behavior. I have to run the client directly from its folder (either in file explorer or cmd) or it will fail to authenticate with the server when I try to get a ticket. Running it from the start […]

When I run dir inside C:Tempmupdf (a directory two levels deep), I see both . and .. listed as expected: C:Tempmupdf>dir ... 11/03/2026 15:26 <DIR> . 24/06/2026 14:48 <DIR> .. ... But when I run dir inside C:mupdf (a directory directly under the drive root), .. is absent: C:mupdf>dir ... […]

I am pretty new to servers, and I am trying to set one up on an old laptop of mine, but the main issue that I’m having is that I don’t know if ssh is working or not, I set up the keys all right, I used a pretty recent […]

I wish to write a macro that will change the default filename in the SaveAs dialogue in Writer. It will be part of a template, so the “Untitled 1” gets changed to something more meaningful. I have found several relevant properties on `ThisComponent` but they all read-only. Sample code sub […]

Clicking a Linux app (VLC, xterm) after login does not start/wake the Crostini container on the affected machines. Machine that don’t work are on ChromeOS Flex 149.0.7827.153 Debian 13 (Trixie) Machine that do work are on ChromeOS Flex 148.0.7778.263 Debian 12 (Bookworm) I’ve done a lot of testing and it […]