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Living Room / How to identify email address at the end of lines with RegEx?

« on: June 04, 2020, 10:23 AM »

Hello!

How to identify space + email address at the end of lines with RegEx?

e.g.

*anything* [email protected]

How can I match these email addresses? The email can have various stuff e.g. dots, underscores etc.

Thanks!

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Living Room / Is it possible to download the files linked to an m3u8 or a blob?

« on: May 24, 2020, 03:29 PM »

Hello

When a webpage loads a stream video, it runs a m3u8 which I believe is a playlist and it runs a file from a link like blob:https://file/1234

Is it possible to get the link of the actual file?

I tried HLS Downloader for Chrome but it seems to actually stream and save the video, instead of downloading it directly.

I want the latter so that I can load many files to download and be able to resume them.

Thanks!

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Living Room / How can I find the link of an embedded video file?

« on: January 05, 2020, 03:27 PM »

Hello!

I want to download videos from the Panopto platform, how can I get the direct link to the file?

Thanks!

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Living Room / What are .rsf macros?

« on: November 26, 2019, 08:46 AM »

Hello

I saw a macro with the extension .rsf, which application is this really?

Thanks!

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Living Room / Notepad++ strange behaviour

« on: November 26, 2019, 03:57 AM »

Hello!


I have three tabs open in Notepad++ and when I type some text in the second or third tab, it spontaneously activates the first tab!

Is this a shortcut or bug or something?

Thanks!

56

Living Room / Strange Outlook Ribbon display

« on: November 23, 2019, 06:02 AM »

Hello!

I usually add another group of commands in the Home tab ribbon but this time it displays it as one button that I will need to click on in order to reveal the commands.

Can you tell me please how to fix this?

Thanks!

57

Living Room / QuickTime messed up everything

« on: November 20, 2019, 11:16 AM »

Hello

I made the mistake to download a video cutter software and it required Quicktime. In the middle of the extremely lengthy install, I cancelled it.

Now, when I click on a map link in Firefox, Mac Maps come up instead of the regular Google.

Any idea?

58

Living Room / Migrating from Ymail to Gmail

« on: November 15, 2019, 09:10 AM »

Hello

I have been unlucky to have a yahoo email address from many years before gmail and I couldn't do the switch.

Now, everyone ignores my messages due to my @yahoo.com account which is associated with spammers and fraudsters.

Is there a way to migrate from yahoo to gmail without losing any data? I need to maintain records of all my emails, more than a decade ago.

Thanks!

59

Living Room / How is this old interface called?

« on: November 04, 2019, 07:00 AM »

Hello

How is the legacy interface called of some programs that you run them using TAB, F1, F2 etc keys to navigate to different fields and type text? The whole interface is MS-DOS-like text only with text inputs and no graphics.

How are these programs called?

Also, how do they work? Do they write/read from a file? How is the data stored?

How can we automate them and can we inject data into them by-passing their tedious interface?

Thanks!

60

Living Room / Android annoyances

« on: October 10, 2019, 08:07 AM »

Hello!

Do you know any solutions to the below Android annoyances please?

1) I very often accidentally switch on the Google Assistant, how do I completely disable or uninstall it? I don't find any value in using it and it has some very basic shortcuts that interfere too often.
2) How can I set the phone not to dim the screen when a specific app is running?
3) How do I set the phone to always mute a specific app? There is an app that has annoying ads that have sound and I want to stop this.

thanks!

61

Living Room / Windows 10 Versions: Education, Education N, 1809, 1903

« on: October 02, 2019, 03:48 PM »

Hello!

I can download Windows 10 from the university and I am offered the following versions:

Education 1809
Education N 1809
Windows 10 1809
Windows 10 (consumer editions) 1903 - DVD

Which one should I choose? What are the differences? Which is the most 'advanced'?

Also, do I download it and run it as installer to update my Windows 8.1? I do not want to erase anything.

Will it say if my laptop is not compatible?

Thanks!

62

Living Room / Free call recorder for Android

« on: September 12, 2019, 02:02 PM »

Hello!

Is there any free reliable call recorder for Android to automatically record and store the audio of all calls?

Thanks!

63

Living Room / Fingerprint sensor under screen: does it work well?

« on: July 03, 2019, 03:26 AM »

Hello!

I like the idea of the whole mobile phone screen to be a fingerprint sensor.

However, I read somewhere that you need to click on specific area of the screen and you need to wait for a percentage to go to 100% before you lift your finger.

Is that the case for every such phone?

I want it to work really fast.

Thanks!

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Living Room / Is it possible to change the buttons in Motorola G7?

« on: June 27, 2019, 01:44 PM »

Hello!

The left button goes back and the right button opens the task manager.
Is it possible to switch them?

Thanks!

65

Living Room / Any good free android scientific calculator?

« on: June 27, 2019, 01:43 PM »

I used to have PowerCalc but it seems is no longer available.
I would like it to be fully scientific and to show parentheses.

Any idea?
Thanks!

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Living Room / How to disable the 'do you want to start a voice call' in Whatsapp?

« on: June 26, 2019, 02:02 PM »

Hello

When I click to make a voice call in Whatsapp, it displays an annoying message 'do you want to start a voice call?'.

How can I disable this?

Thanks!

67

Living Room / Monitor Web Usage

« on: June 06, 2019, 09:47 AM »

Hello!

A department at work has several employees and they work on processing files on a sharepoint website.

I want to track how long they take viewing/working on a specific webpage to measure productivity.

Do you know an easy IE plugin to log webpages/urls and time spent on them?

Or could I do that at the network level e.g. with a sniffer or something (I do not have such access though)?

Thanks!

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Living Room / Which screen spec is most important for comfortable viewing?

« on: May 19, 2019, 06:43 AM »

Hello!

Which screen spec is the most important for less eye tiring viewing?

A phone has high contrast but low pixel density and I wonder which is more important given that I read alot on the screen and my eyes get tired. Or anything else I should look for?

Thanks!

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Living Room / Anyone knows Tableau?

« on: March 29, 2019, 07:07 AM »

Hello!

Anyone knows why the below calculated field in Tableau does not work?

IF [A]='4'
AND [D]<>NULL
AND ([X]='F'
OR [X]='D'
OR [X]='G'
OR [X]='B'
OR [X]='D'
OR [X]='R')
THEN [ID]
END

Any idea please?

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Living Room / Is there a way to ping a remote desktop?

« on: March 21, 2019, 06:21 AM »

Hello!

I log in to a remote desktop via Citrix and after some inactivity it locks itself.

Is there a way to auto-ping regularly it so that it stays active?

Thanks!

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Living Room / Got new phone, is there an easy way to transfer my settings/apps/data?

« on: March 21, 2019, 06:19 AM »

Hello!

Got new phone, is there an easy way to transfer my settings/apps/data?

Thanks!

72

Living Room / How to calculate the area of a graph?

« on: March 05, 2019, 05:51 PM »

Hello

I have this graph and I want to calculate the amount in grams of glucose that is above the straight line of 100mg/dl for the whole period of about 5h.

https://img.medscape...s/gavin/slide021.gif

I think I need to calculate the area of the triangle, but this will give me a unit of mg/dL x hours which does not make sense.

Can anyone advise me please?

Thanks!

73

Living Room / Automation of sourcing text from various docs, compile a report and email it

« on: March 01, 2019, 08:33 AM »

Hello!

Shall I assume that Powershell is the best tool to do the above?

I want to copy specific cells from specific sheet in a specific excel document, into a word document, format it properly and email the formatted text to a specific email address at specific time every day.

Is it going to be huge coding to do that?

Can I do all these within MS Office?

Any hints?

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Living Room / Is there any compact portable browser?

« on: February 25, 2019, 07:59 AM »

Hi!

Is there a compact portable browser?

I use Palemoon and its 160MB are too many for my space allowance.

Thanks!

75

Living Room / Any VBA experts?

« on: February 22, 2019, 01:25 PM »

Hello

I have an Excel sheet with formulas and text in hundreds of cells.

Is there a way to click a button and add this sheet to the active workbook, in any xls file I have opened?

Some formulas refer to a sheet with a specific name, so when this sheet is present in the workbook, the formulas must work.

Thanks!