Converting unix cli command to windows
I am using gethttpsforfree.com to get my cert. I am stuck on step 3. They want me to run a command but it's a unix command and I am on windows. The command is PRIV_KEY=./account.key; echo -n "eyJub25jZSI6...cGRmIn0" | openssl dgst -sha256 -hex -sign $PRIV_KEY Now this won't work on cmd ofcourse. But...
PHP 5.6 OCI8 Install Issue:
I am trying to install the OCI8 extension on Red Hat 7 (PHP 5.6.x.) I have spent at least two days trying to figure this out including combing SuperUser and StackOverflow. So far none of the answers have fixed the problem. I have the Oracle Instant Client installed at: /usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/...
Printer toner doesn't adhere well to the paper anymore
We've had the Samsung SL-M2825DW for about 2 years now, and printed a total of 5345 pages (according to the configuration report). Recently, I've noticed that the toner doesn't always adhere well to the paper after printing. At first it seemed to only happen after printing dozens of pages, but now i...
Azure VPN disconnects when switching users
I've got an Azure point-to-site VPN co ection ru ing on my local machine, under my main user account. However, as soon as I switch to a secondary user on that same machine, that VPN co ection disco ects - which is problematic, as I need it for some background processes ru ing on my secondary login. ...
Battery react strangely
A school has several identical laptops bought 5 years ago: Fujistu Lifebook model A530 Since several weeks, around 50% of them randomly tu s off after 1 to 5 minutes: the shutdown is brutal: one second you work on the laptop, the next second it is completly stopped inverting batteries between a work...
Copy protection third-party toolkits
I need to add copy protection by license to a desktop Qt application that runs on Windows and OS X. We are mostly interested in per-machine licensing, with the possibility to issue time-based trial licenses. At least initially, a simple manual off-line license validation (we can just email the activ...
Run a Windows application without displaying its GUI
Is there a way to run a Windows application without displaying its GUI window? I have a 3rd party Windows application which does not have any command line parameter or switch to suppress its GUI. I need to start it in the background, and interact only programmatically with it, using data exchange AP...
Sum with multiple criteria and vlookup from another table
In the table below, I want to sum all of New York ACT in Q2 after the sales have been multiplied by the corresponding rates. Is there a one-shot formula I can use without needing to multiply all the items of the first table with the corresponding rates, then summing? The result I'm looking for would...