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We have already shown you how flexible the Linux shell can be, but that’s not to say Windows is any further behind. Here’s two techniques you can use depending on your shell preference, cmd or PowerShell. PowerShell 3 PowerShell 2 Explanation Firstly we get FileInfo and DirectoryInfo objects in the Path C:\Backups. FileInfo and DirectoryInfo objects both contain a CreationTime property, so we can filter the collection using that. The –lt (less than) operator is then used to compare the CreationTime property of the objects with Get-Date (the current date) subtract 5 days....

GitLab is a leading platform for hosting Git repositories, CI pipelines, and DevOps workflows. It’s available as a SaaS offering on GitLab.com or as a self-managed distribution for private use on your own hardware. GitLab’s a complex system formed from a web of distinct components and dependencies. Installing GitLab packages directly onto your operating system will add weighty new services to your machine, including PostgreSQL, Redis, Gitaly, and the main Rails-based GitLab web application....

The caps lock key is a remnant of typewriters dating from the nineteenth century. Unless you’re in the accounting department, it’s probably not very useful, so today we’ll learn how to disable it. RELATED: Map Any Key to Any Key on Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, or Vista UPDATE: We’ve received some reports that some people are having problems with the registry keys on Windows 10 Home edition, at least....

The Professional edition of Windows 8 comes with “downgrade rights.” If you’re not happy with Windows 8 on a new computer, you can downgrade it to Windows 7 for free – as long as you have Windows 8 Pro. This isn’t as easy as it should be: Microsoft designed this procedure for businesses, and individual users will have to jump through a number of hoops to downgrade their Windows 8 Pro systems....

Last year Google rolled out desktop notifications for Google Calendar, now you can get Gmail and Gchat notifications on your desktop too. Read on as we walk you through configuring them both. Chrome’s desktop notifications are clean, easy to read, and really handy for keeping an eye on what’s going on inside Gmail without keeping the browser focused on it. Setting it up is easy, grab your copy of Chrome to follow along....

In Windows 11, when you link your Microsoft account with your PC, the Photos app automatically shows the images from your OneDrive storage. If you’d like to hide these OneDrive images in Photos, you can. We’ll show you how. RELATED: How to Disable OneDrive and Remove It From File Explorer on Windows 10 Prevent the Photos App From Showing OneDrive Images To hide OneDrive images in Photos, first, open the Photos app on your Windows 11 PC....

Cygwin’s great for getting some Linux command-line goodness in Windows, but using the Windows Shell to access it kills some of that magic. Using Mintty and a few other methods, you can make the experience much more luxurious. Windows Shell Limitations We’ve already shown you how to install and use Cygwin so you can use Windows and not have to miss out on that command-line goodness. For a lot of people, however, the excitement of running bash in Windows is severely hampered by the fact that Cygwin uses the Command Prompt shell to get things done....

Use AWS’s CloudFront CDN CloudFront is a Content Delivery Network, or CDN, a service that sits in front of your website, API, or any other web service. It caches the result near the edge (close to the user), which improves performance, but it also can reduce the costs you pay in a number of ways. First off, CloudFront has a much larger free tier, and it’s always free as well. You get 1 TB of data, an entire terabyte, for free each month....

Safe secret management is an important aspect of container security. If you’re injecting passwords and API keys as environment variables, you risk unintentional information exposure. Shell variables are often logged, passed down to child processes, or leaked to error reporting services without your knowledge. Injecting values as dedicated secrets mitigates these risks. Docker has built-in support for secure secret management which you can hook into with Docker Compose. Access to secrets is granted on a per-service basis....

When Server Core originally shipped, a lot of Windows admins avoided it because you could only use the command line, but this changes with Windows Server 2012 which enabled the use of a hybrid mode. Turning the GUI Off In Windows Server 8 the GUI has kept with the modular nature of recent Windows Server Operating Systems and in turn has become a “Feature”. This makes removing the GUI very easy....

Like peanut butter and chocolate, a word processor with some basic spreadsheet chops makes a fantastic combination. When you want some rather easy number-crunching embedded in an otherwise ordinary text document, Microsoft Word has you covered, thanks to baked-in functionality from its sister program Excel. Word’s implementation of Excel spreadsheets essentially embeds a tiny copy of the program, right in the middle of your weekly newsletter to the Booster’s Club....

SharedPreferences is a module bringing the functionality of Android’s eponymous API to your cross-platform Flutter apps. It uses Apple’s similar NSUserDefaults API when running on iOS and macOS. Implementations are also included for Linux and Windows so it’ll run everywhere Flutter apps can. In this guide, we’ll show how you can use SharedPreferences to persist simple settings within your app. The module is best used for small pieces of non-essential state such as user preferences, saved bookmarks, and cached config values sent by a server....

While your Nest Thermostat is obviously meant for adjusting the temperature in your home, it can pull double duty and also act as a motion detector of sorts. Here’s how to set it up. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the Nest Thermostat The Nest Thermostat has a built-in motion sensor that it uses for determining whether or not there’s someone home, allowing it to turn down the heat or the air conditioner accordingly if it detects that no one is home....

We’ve shown you how to hack your Wii for homebrew software and DVD playback as well as how to safeguard and supercharge your Wii. Now we’re taking a peek at Wii game loaders so you can backup and play your Wii games from an external HDD. Wii game loaders are a sub-class of Wii homebrew software designed to load games from an external source, typically a USB 2.0 external hard drive....

Two-factor authentication, also known as 2-step verification, provides additional security for your online accounts. Even if someone discovers your password, they’ll need a special one-time code to log in after you enable two-factor authentication on these services. Notably absent from this list are banks and other financial institutions. It’s a shame that you can use two-factor authentication to protect your in-game currency in an MMORPG, but not the real money in your bank account....

Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-drive grouping of Q&A web sites. The Question SuperUser reader Qqwy poses the following question: Let’s get to the bottom of things: is it better to crank up the volume at the speaker or within your computer’s settings? By making the music louder in my music player, game or other sound-producing software program? By raising the volume at the operating system level (for instance, by clicking the speaker icon in the Windows notification area and turning the volume up)?...

It’s been more than a year since we drew attention to the crapware regularly foisted upon unsuspecting users by pretty much every big freeware site, including the venerable SourceForge. Since then, a few sites–including SourceForge themselves–have started cleaning up their act. Most freeware download sites still use shady tactics, unfortunately, cramming their own installers full of unwanted software and misleading advertisements down your throat in order to make a buck....

If you have been following our Hackintoshing guides, you might know the basics, and how to install Snow Leopard on your custom built PC. In this guide, we will try to upgrade your Snow Leopard hackintosh to Mac OS X Lion, and also explain a thing or two regarding dual-booting your hackintosh with Windows. We started with the basics & choosing the most compatible hardware, and then showed you the installation of Snow Leopard on it....

Have you ever wanted to work on a project with the ability to track your changes as well as revert them? How-To Geek explains How-To use the popular version tracking system, Subversion (a.k.a SVN). Image by Clearly Ambiguous Prelog This guide will aim to give you the ability to use the subversion client in general, and, if you have one, on your *DD-WRT router. This guide is by no means a definitive guide for Subversion and a lot of information can be found on the Subversion Red Book....

StatefulSets are Kubernetes objects used to consistently deploy stateful application components. Pods created as part of a StatefulSet are given persistent identifiers that they retain even when they’re rescheduled. A StatefulSet can deploy applications that need to reliably identify specific replicas, rollout updates in a pre-defined order, or stably access storage volumes. They’re applicable to many different use cases but are most commonly used for databases and other types of persistent data store....