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Hi i am completely new to VBA i have a couple of codes that work well but i cant make the last one work. I have a sheet where I have assign a piece of equipment to a name by entering its serial number On a daily basis I want […]

Just built a brand-new media server with an Intel Arc A750, and I’m trying to get FFMPEG to use QSV for compressing/transcoding content. Built FFmpeg with appropriate flags: ffmpeg version 7.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2024 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 13 (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04) configuration: --prefix=/home/ciuffo/ffmpeg_build --pkg-config-flags=--static --extra-cflags=-I/home/ciuffo/ffmpeg_build/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/ciuffo/ffmpeg_build/lib --extra-libs='-lpthread -lm' […]

I am thinking of buying a German QWERTZ laptop because the price is much cheaper. In the past I worked with QWERTZ by remapping it to QWERTY on Windows, but this time, since it’s a backlit keyboard, I would prefer to physically swap the keys. Is it possible? Is it […]

Is there any easy/quick way to add apps to the registered Windows apps (even for the unsupported windows7)? At the moment i can do manually through regedit. [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClassesApplicationsmyapp.exeshellopencommand] @=””C:my_Portablesmyapp.exe” “%1″” Is there any 3rd party app to ease the file selection and the registration of non installed apps? Otherwise i […]

I am trying to access some CFD meshes uploaded on the NASA archive. They are accessible publicly and available at the following FTP URL: ftp://cmb24.larc.nasa.gov/outgoing/Vassberg_2D_NACA0012 However, I tried using FileZilla, and it seems the server is offline. Since I am not familiar with FTP URLs, I was wondering whether anyone […]

Operating systems are Archlinux and NixOS. In short, I don’t understand is why is this: for part in ./offsite-backup.2025-02-16T10-23-18.part*.tar.gz.gpg; do gpg --decrypt --always-trust --recipient offsite-backup $part > ${part%.gpg}; rm $part done cat ./offsite-backup.2025-02-16T10-23-18.part*.tar.gz | tar -xzf - -C restored Doesn’t work the same as this: mkfifo decrypted.pipe cat decrypted.pipe | […]

Drive model: ADATA Legend 970 Pro 2TB Motherboard: MSI Pro Z890 OS: Windows 11 24H2 Build 26100 This is crystaldiskmark: [Read] SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 171.193 MB/s [ 163.3 IOPS] < 48589.07 us> SEQ 128KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 169.888 MB/s [ 1296.1 IOPS] < 24493.47 us> RND […]

Due to data loss, I have lost some keyfiles to access some fully encrypted drives. As always there is very important data on the drives and information I better not lose. The drives have been encrypted using only keyfiles, no additional passwords or whatsoever. The drives have been encrypted with […]