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I am dealing with an issue regarding dot-matrix printing after migrating systems from Windows XP to modern Windows environments. Context: Back in Windows XP, when printing from Microsoft Word to a dot-matrix printer (connected via LPT1), I could easily select native printer fonts directly from the font drop-down list. These […]
Monthly Archives: March 2026
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I know what Stereo Mix is supposed to do, record all sound going inside the device that i’m using, What i find myself wondering is if it’s possible to forbid it from recording sound from certain applications without having to disable sound entirely from said application. For context, i use […]
Host: Ubuntu 24.04LTS Guest: Lubuntu 24.04LTS Guest has “Dynamically allocated differencing storage”. The Virtualbox media manager says the Virtual Size is 25.00GB, but that the Actual Size is 11.96GB. However, inside the guest, it reports that the 25GB disk — /dev/sda1 all allocated to / — is 99% full. It […]
The pin icon is icon group #5100 in imageres.dll.mun. In older operating systems, I could hide this icon by replacing it with a transparent .ico file using either Resource Hacker or Customizer God. In Windows 11, the former cannot get past Windows’ protection for imageres.dll.mun (which is fair). while the […]
I love TextPad, but one quirk of it spellchecks drives me up the wall: it trips on every instance of an html tag followed by a word because it treat the closing angle bracket (>) as a letter (so it triggerss on sequences like i>this or i>you). I just updated […]
I am setting up a Google Spreadsheet to document data for clients and I want it if a certain cell meets a certain criteria it will highlight 4 additional cells after that regardless of their values. So the rule is if LH >=7.5 and % change >200 LH% or >250 […]
I found one way is to use a formula like: =IF(start=””,””,IF(B5=””,ROUND(RAND(),dp),B5)) Name one cell “start”. The random number will not appear, until something is entered into the start cell. For example, you could require someone to enter their name or simple answer into the start cell. You would put this […]
I have a Thinkpad T1 Gen 8 (a Thinkpad P1 Gen 8 with different graphics). I replaced factory NVME with two larger drivers and installed Linux. One of the 4T drives has the following layout (GPT): [3.4T Linux][4G Swap][256G free][1G Linux EFI] I wanted to install Windows in the free […]
On Ubuntu, trying to install a deb-file (armory 0.96.5), I get the error: depends on python (>= 2.6), but it is not installable. Well, it already is installed and just typing python --version in the command-line shows me it’s version: Python 3.13.7 Why does it not find my python-version and […]