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Use ffmpeg copy codec to combine *.ts files into a single mp4

I've got a bunch of ts segments described by a single index.m3u8 file: index.m3u8 segment1_0_av.ts segment2_0_av.ts segment3_0_av.ts segment4_0_av.ts segment5_0_av.ts I know they are all encoded the same way. ffprobe gives me the…
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Windows using too much RAM, how to diagnose resource hog

I have 16GB of system RAM. On startup with no applications open except the task-manager Windows is using about 3gb of RAM. I looked in the processes tab, but nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. How can I find out why my Windows is using so much…
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How to find the RAM type in command prompt?

How to find the RAM type (DDR2/DDR3) of the system using command prompt? I have tried SYSTEMINFO in command prompt but it did not display the RAM type.
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How can I create transparent images in MS Paint?

I want to know how to draw transparent images in Microsoft Paint for Windows 7. I searched on Google but couldn't find anything for Microsoft Paint in Windows 7. E.g. I want to draw a star for my application. But I want that when I display it on…
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Shortcut to open specific bookmark / URL in Chrome

How to enable keyboard shortcut to open specific bookmark / URL while using Chrome?
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OpenVPN: Only route a specific IP addresses through VPN?

On a remote private network there are two servers -- a file server and a database server (these are both Win machines, in case it matters). The file server has its own fairly robust authentication mechanisms, and allows me to connect directly from a…
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Is there any benefit to using IPv6 on my home network?

I know that IPv6 is the future because there is only 4 billion IPv4 address, but on a home network, you are not going to have 4 billion users. So are there any other benefits that would make IPv6 on a home network better than using IPv4?
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Delete files with regular expression

I Tried to delete files that starts with A and ends with 2 numbers but It doesn't do a thing. What I tried: rm ^A*[0..9]2$ Where am I wrong?
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Can you run a machine emulator (Bochs) inside a virtual machine?

Is it possible to, say, run VirtualBox on Windows 7 with a Linux guest, and inside that Linux machine run Bochs? The reason is that I'm interested in starting OS development, and I've found that all the tutorials and stuff are much easier to follow…
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Stop PDFs from displaying inside Google Chrome

When I click on a PDF link in Chrome, it opens automatically inside the browser window. How can I get it to download instead and open with an external viewer? Update: I implemented djhowell's solution but Chrome still seems to be handling PDF files…
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How do I see the XML of my DOCX document?

I want to see my .docx in its pure XML format. Various application like internet browsers and visual studio will open the file up in Word for me. I've also tried renaming the document to .xml extension and it just opens up in notepad showing a bunch…
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How do I clear out the ssh-agent entries (on Mac OS X )?

I'm running Mac OS X, and it appears that after SSHing to several machines, using identity files, my 'ssh-agent' builds up a lot of identity / keys and then sometimes offers too many to a remote machine, causing them to kick me off before…
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How to check if a directory exists in Windows?

I would like to translate this Linux/Bash script to Windows shell: if test -d myDirName; then echo "ok"; else mkdir myDirName; fi It tests if a directory exists, and if it doesn't it creates it.
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What is that cylinder on cables?

There's always that pesky cylinder thing on every cable I have. What is it? And more importantly, why don't Apple's products have them?
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How to update Cygwin from Cygwin's command line?

To search and download a package missed from Cygwin I need to run setup.exe GUI each time, click many times and do other boring things. Is there a way to do the same from Cygwin's command line directly? Like apt-get tools do.
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