What do Red Minus signs mean on my desktop icons?
Not a major issue, but not long ago my desktop icons were tagged with little red minus signs (technically white minus sign, red background). Here's a...
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All monitors go black randomly
At completely random intervals my computer monitors all go black for 10-15s. I have no idea why this might be. Also when every I restart my computer with ...
How to access a Hyper-V virtual machine remotely with Remote Desktop?
Right now I have a physical server with Windows Server 2012 in which I am running a windows 7 virtual machine with Hyper-V Manager. How can I access this ...
Grep with a variable in a script
I have this code that returns the number of files in a directory with the name wordpress.*.tar.gz This code works NUM_BACKUPS="$(ls -l ${POOL_PATH}/$...
grep for pattern including carriage return on a Mac
I want to search files for colon followed by carriage return followed by dash. I am using macOS (so it's BSD grep). I would have thought grep -l ":\n...
How to make a GPT (Data Partition) bootable?
I had a Windows 10 on a GPT partitioned disk and I created a Ghost image of the Operating System like I had done in the past. Now I got a larger HDD which...
On Windows, what filename extensions denote an executable?
On Windows, *.exe, *.bat, *.cmd, and *.com all represent programs or shell scripts that can be run, simply by double-clicking them. Are there any other fi...
Keep grep output on one line?
I have a real quick question for you guys. After looking through the documentation and the site here, I was wondering if it were possible to keep grep fro...
How can I shrink my 12GB pagefile.sys?
Even though I only have 4GB of RAM, I have a 12GB pagefile.sys. From what I've read about the topic, this is bigger than the x1.5 rule-of-thumb and i...
How to run the file command recursively
I'm trying to get information about the types of all the files in a given directory tree. Running file in the current directory works well enough, bu...
