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18 Nov 2020
“A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” will air on PBS and PBS Kids on November 22 at 7:30 pm. “A Charlie Brown Christmas” will air on PBS and PBS Kids on December 13, 2020 at 7:30 pm. variety.com/2020/tv/news/cha…
21 Oct 2020
Charlie Brown specials free on Apple TV Fri Oct 30 thru Sun Nov 1 “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” Wed Nov 25 thru Fri Nov 27 “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” Fri Dec 11 thru Sun Dec 13 “A Charlie Brown Christmas” support.apple.com/guide/tvpl…
12 Nov 2020
If you don't want XboxGameBar, right click on PowerShell, pick run as Administrator then enter: Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay* | Remove-AppxPackage This needs to be done under each impacted user account.
21 Oct 2020
Charlie Brown specials free on Apple TV Fri Oct 30 thru Sun Nov 1 “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” Wed Nov 25 thru Fri Nov 27 “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” Fri Dec 11 thru Sun Dec 13 “A Charlie Brown Christmas” support.apple.com/guide/tvpl…
How to force HTTPS in a new .htaccess: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301,NE] Copy an existing .htaccess before changing it. Comment out similar code with initial # until you know what works for your needs.
23 May 2020
Video cut/trim with VLC. Position source video at start point, View -> Advanced Controls, toggle record on, play source video to end point, toggle record off. Target (cut) video in C:\Users\username\Videos\ or equivalent per vlchelp.com/cut-trim-videos-…
Stop internal mic feedback: right-click Speakers icon then click Recording Devices (or Start -> Control Panel -> Sound -> Recording) click Internal Microphone Array then Properties click Listen tab then uncheck "Listen to this device" click Apply
18 Mar 2020
screen scraping out of SurveyMonkey into Qualtrics hopefully as Simple TXT not as Advanced Format TXT qualtrics.com/support/survey…
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Paste into a text editor (like Notepad ) and edit to match Qualtrics layout (Example.txt), then save as TXT. Remove: ~5 lines at top (survey title) ~10 lines at bottom ("Powered by" to end) "Queston Title" before each question asterisk before each queston number.
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This worked except for pulldown lists, so I left markers <<your list here>> where those lists should go. Try to load into Qualtrics.
24 Feb 2020
Project #GrooveIsInTheHeart a/k/a unclog stopped up sync: uwec.edu/kb/article/disable-… Sync named subfolders as YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS under "OneDrive for Business - Unsynced Changes" or C:\Users\username\ODBA\1 etc. from a DOS box. FWIW: MS Office Groove <> MS Groove/Zune/Xbox Music

17 Feb 2019
Skills on Google profile truncated? View page source & search it for a) the part of your Skills showing or b) exact phrase "Skills editing restriction" (especially if your skills words recur in your profile). You'll find your original, complete Skills entry is intact.
The only way to keep Microsoft Photos from using CPU and disk is to remove it. Right click on PowerShell. pick run as Administrator then enter: Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.Windows.Photos* | Remove-AppxPackage This needs to be done under each impacted user account.

28 Jul 2018
Using #Edge and mouse wheel goes forward and backward through browser history instead of up and down on webpage? Workaround for that weirdness is to change "Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them" from OFF to ON here: Windows10 Start Settings Devices Mouse
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Q: Make a bootable DVD/CD from .ISO with CyberLink? A: Power2Go -> Copy Disc -> Burn Disc Image 1) Why are CyberLink pre-installed apps under "Productivity and Tools"? 2) Why can't their Desktop Burning Gadget burn ISOs? 3) Shouldn't Burn Disc Image go under Disc Utilities menu?
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17 May 2018
Get-FileHash not in PowerShell v2/v3 CERTUTIL -hashfile some.zip SHA256 (defaults to SHA1, also does SHA256 SHA512 SHA384 MD2 MD4 MD5) or CRC SHA on right click (presumes 7-Zip installed) or shasum -a 256 some.zip (if an OSX/Unix system is handy)

30 Apr 2018
tr -d '\15' <code_with_caret_m.sql >code_to_run_on_unix.sql tr -d '\15\32' <file_with_caret_m_and_ctrl_z_at_end.txt >file_ready_for_unix.txt
10 Apr 2018
To turn screenshots into documentation, I start with a copy of a presentation consisting of 50 Blank slides (named as 50emptyslides.pptx).
10 Apr 2018
Blank Presentation template of #PowerPoint does not have an actual Blank slide in it. A new Blank Presentation will have a Title slide and new slides after it are Title and Content.