When you start a Windows 10 guest machine in VirtualBox on your workstation, you can set up shared folders to seamlessly copy files between your workstation and the Windows 10 guest machine. The shared folder appears in Windows Explorer as a mapped network location. For more on this see Configure the Windows virtual machine in VirtualBox …
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Refresh the environment variables in the Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell window
When the Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell windows open, they read the environment variables from the registry. If another process changes the value of an environment variable or creates a new one, the already open windows don’t reflect those changes. To reload the environment variables into open Command Prompt and PowerShell windows execute refreshenv
Install Git on Windows
If you use two-factor authentication see Create a Personal Access Token to use it as password in the command line tools at Switching to 2-factor authentication in GitHub Navigate to https://git-scm.com/download/win to download Git for Windows. The page automatically downloads the installer for the operating system you use. Install the application Accept the default values, including these: Make …
Install Chocolatey
The Chocolatey home page is at https://chocolatey.org/ Install Chocolatey Navigate to the Chocolatey website at https://chocolatey.org/ and follow the latest instructions. At the time of writing the instructions were Using the Command prompt Open a command prompt as Administrator, Install Chocolatey with the command @”%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe” -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command “iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString(‘https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1’))” && SET “PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin” Using …
The instance ID ‘…’ does not exist
When you launch an EC2 instance in AWS and the Chef script is trying to set tags on the instance you may get the error message: The instance ID ‘…’ does not exist It can happen when you launch the instance in one AWS account, and the tagging script tries to find the instance in another …
Determine the Windows PowerShell version
To reliably display the version of the Windows PowerShell engine Open a PowerShell command window, Execute the command, $PSVersionTable.PSVersion PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion Major Minor Build Revision —– —– ——- ——- 5 1 16299 64 If no value is displayed, the version is 1.0, as it does not have the referenced …
How to create a slideshow in Drupal 7
To create a slideshow in Drupal 7 Create a Slideshow content Log into Drupal as administrator In the top menu select Content and Add content On the Add Content page select Slideshow On the Create Slideshow page enter the title of the page, and populate the fields for the images. Click the Choose File to upload the …
How to install a Drupal module
To install a Drupal module Download the Drupal module from the www.drupal.org website, Unzip the module, With an FTP client upload the module directory to sites/all/modules/contrib Log into the Drupal site as administrator, In the menu select Modules, Click the switch next to the module name to turn it ON. The orange switch label reminds you to …
How to create a Docker repository in Artifactory
Artifactory supports multiple repository types, Docker is one of them. To create a new Docker repository in Artifactory Set the Custom Base URL of the Artifactory server From the Artifactory documentation at https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Configuring+NGINX “When using an HTTP proxy, the links produced by Artifactory, as well as certain redirects contain the wrong port and use the http instead …
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How to transfer an Atlassian Confluence wiki space to another server
Confluence is one of the most popular Wikis with a great user interface. To export and transfer an Atlassian Confluence wiki to another server Log into the Atlassian Confluence wiki as an administrator, In the lower left corner click the gear icon and select Content Tools, On the Export tab select the XML radio button …
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