Sometimes sound breaks for me and speaker output is completely broken. This helped: pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload
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Good article that tells you how to change behavior of certain keys via xmodmap (with the help of exv if...
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Safari & Chrome Use $x() in your console: $x('//span') # selects all span elements Firefox There's an add-on.
JavaScript has no built-in functions to compare two objects or arrays for equality of their contained values.
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If others on a call (Skype, SIP, ...) can not hear you loud enough, your volume levels are probably too low...
Do not investigate in the 2342 tools that exist for migrating IMAP accounts from one server to another. They all...
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The attached article outlines considerations when choosing client-side vs. server-side implementations of the Google Geocoding APIs (geocoder, directions...
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When searching for text in a MySQL table, you have two choices: The LIKE operator FULLTEXT indexes (which currently only...