I have a basic role cookbook that calls a couple of recipes: include_recipe 'base' include_recipe 'my_postgresql' My base cookbook has all of my custom yum repositories in it. The postgresql cookbook (a dependency of 'my_postgresql' wrapper cookbook has a dependency on build-essential. My problem is...

On a linux system, is there a command that will give you the current CPU usage? I know you can visually inspect using top or htop, so the data exists somewhere. I'd like a command to say "at this current moment, 65% of processing power is being used". Does such a command exist? Let's block ads! (Why...

I can co ect to Ubuntu 14.04 from my Mac OSX 10.11.4 using VNC Viewer I'm presented with a black screen and a mouse cursor. When I right click the mouse I see a context menu popout on the remote computer, the keyboard works too. Why can't I see the remote desktop? Let's block ads! (Why?)

Is there a Windows command line command that can list (say top 100) most recently modified files, searching recursively across the entire drive? I would like to run this from the command prompt that is available in the Windows Recovery Environment (boot using installation media USB and choose 'Repai...

When I open a zenity dialog window with bash, the window is always displayed in the background rather than in front of the terminal window. For example zenity --info --title='Just a title' --text='This is my text' This is bothering me as the user has to click on the zenity window a first time to bri...

In Windows 10, how do I tu on 'Send Do Not Track requests' for the Microsoft Edge browser? -- Through the command prompt/batch script.

I have a Thinkpad with Windows 10 installed, with Bitlocker setup and previously working. I've just installed Ubuntu along-side Windows, and I enabled the "encrypt my home drive" option during install. I am using grub as a boot manager. I can boot into and run Ubuntu fine. If I select Windows from t...

I need a way to create a shortcut icon on the Desktop that when clicked, emulates the press of ALT+F4. I was thinking at AutoHotKey, I have bound the alt+f4 combination to F12, but then I can't manage to send the keystroke automatically. I want that when I run the script, it emulates Alt+F4 and then...

So first of all, im not sure if this is the right exchange.Also, you can't find anything on google for this which is really a oying. So since a few days I have some adware on my browser (you know, just like extra toolbars or a starting page).I get this sidebar from indeed.com on multiple websites (s...

Just hit a restart after 24-days-and-something uptime of my Windows 7 x64 based laptop and at boot time saw "Installing device driver software" systray message, then got "You must restart your computer blablabla". Nothing was saved in event logs but after checking one by one hardware components in "...

The telnyx Data API tab describes a SIP request: Requires IP Authentication to be setup through the portal and associated with LRN under Telephone Data Tab Send a SIP Invite to l lookup.telnyx.com with the number you wish to dip on port 5060 The response will be a SIP 302 redirect for example: SIP/2...

I use Windows 10 as my programming environment for writing websites with a Debian VirtualBox that the actual web server runs on. So when I need to test my websites, all I had to do was add them to my hosts file and I'm good to go. Now the problem comes because I'm trying to test my local websites wi...

My issue is that I have a work iphone on which I need important notifications for certain emails (which can be distinguished with a 'subject contains' rule), but iOS only allows selective notifications for emails from 'VIP' addresses (no good here since I will have unimportant emails coming from the...

In a bash shell, you can edit your environment variables, run source ./.bashrc and refresh the values of environment variables in an already open shell. Does Windows have a similar command that you can run to do this from the command prompt? (for instance I might change my system %PATH% variable in ...

I downloaded Arduino IDE and extracted it. When trying to run it: ./arduino It throws up an error: /opt/arduino-1.6.9/java/bin/java: error while loading shared libraries: libjli.so: ca ot open shared object file: No such file or directory I then tried: sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre-headless But...

What does this mean? DDR3L 1600 MHz SDRAM, 8GB, On-board Memory 4 GB, 1 x SO-DIMM socket for expansion up to 12 GB SDRAM and 1600 MHz DDR3L SDRAM, 4 GB Memory slots 2 SODIMM which one is much more better?

I have a file showing how many paid sick days an employee has remaining, we get five days each on a rolling 365 day basis. So if someone is sick 24/05/16, 25/05/16, 26/05/16, 27/05/16, 28/05/16, they'll get paid for those 5 days. They will not be paid if they are sick on any day between 28/05/16 and...

After an upgrade, most of the programs reasonably stopped ru ing or refuse to run with the message "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.17' not found", ls, apt-get, insmod, networking modules.....so now I lost networking , it does not recognize usb sticks.Am I right to assume that the ...

Word lets you customize keyboard shortcuts from inside the Customize Ribbon preference pane. Outlook seems to lack this feature, but I'm admittedly not an Outlook guru. Is there a way that I can invoke the Archive button using a keyboard shortcut? This is the button I'm referring to: Let's block ads...

brand new optiplex 5040 and the mouse cursor looks.. odd. As if it isn't being smoothed at the edges or is ru ing at a lower colour depth? It's most noticeable on the loading wheel. It just looks jagged. I've tried changing the cursors and back again, and I've updated the graphics drivers. It's not ...