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I have been looking for several days to find a solution to the title's problem. I had a virtual machine that was working fine for more than 3 years however it "broke down" and I decided to create a new one with the latest version of lubuntu for guest (I tried other distributions too of course). I deleted and recreated the vms more than 15 times!!! and tried every solution I found on the world wide web like installing vmtools reinstalling vmware changing usb compatibility from version 3 to version 2 etc. But nothing worked. Every time all usb devices were disabled and I couldnt enable them with right click. This thing is infuriating. Please tell me there is a way to fix it, I really dont want to switch to virtualbox.
Molte grazie!
For some inexplicable reason, VMware Player, from a certain version onwards, creates virtual machines with all USB ports disabled, even if the user does not select such option in the gui configuration wizard.
The aforementioned option can be changed only by editing the <vm_name>.vmx file, located in the same path as the VM.
That being said, all you need to do is change the value of this line:
usb.restrictions.defaultAllow = "FALSE"
from FALSE to TRUE.
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First: In case this is the wrong forum please let me know and I'll try to ask somewhere else for advice :-) .
Now to my question: I installed an App / Program and I'm unable to uninstall it. It is a very annoying program which always asks me to update it but I don't use it and just want to get rid of it. When I go to the Control Panel it only offers me the option to change the program but not to uninstall it. When I click change it opens an installation Window which gives me the option to repair, modify or remove files from my PC but when I click any option it just tells me that there are no files on my PC.
Moreover, I've also tried to enter this line in Command prompt and it says that the program was uninstalled successfully but it still continues to be on my pc.
wmic:root\cli>product where name="Autochartist MetaTrader Expert Advisor" call uninstall
Please, can somebody tell me what to do in order to get rid of the program and everything related to it? Thank you! (The program is called Autochartist MetaTrader Expert Advisor)
Well, my best bet is that you install Microsoft Uninstalling (or something of the sort) here. You'll just have to grab the Autochartist MetaTrader Expert Advisor in the list it will give (if it is present. If it isn't, then it will not work) and it should uninstall.
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I have installed genymotion so as usual it's two icons created on my desktop one generation and other it's shell.
Now I want to configure/run in virtual box.
I have started virtual box click on new and set the requirements as linux and version=linux 2.x/3.x/4.x (64).
And configured the storage. But when I started it by click on start it ask me to choose a file for it but it not showing me the genymotion file instead it is just showing me genemotion folder.
My problem is how to add genymotion like how I added other os
Are you trying to run Genymotion in a virtual machine? If so, it will not work: Genymotion needs direct access to your host machine hardware.
See https://support.genymotion.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002720057-Can-Genymotion-Desktop-run-in-a-virtual-machine-
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can somebody explain to me please:
1) Can a py file just by its mere "existence" on your hard drive (if not opening it), cause any kind of malicious harm for your computer system? And if your goal is only to see the content (text of code) of the file, how could you open it to be 100% sure it could not harm your system (for example by the standard text editor tool?)? Or can you only get to the content with Python specific programs?
2) If someone asks you to look at her python code, and wants to send you for this reason several py files - could opening such file harm your computer system/perform "malicious" actions (how?)?
Please take into account for your answer, these three different ways of how you would open the files:
a) you open with the program from python.org
b) you open with a IDE
And a third question:
3) What about the official program from python.org itself - does this program somehow open up your system to additional internet attack types, just by having it installed?
Finally,
4) Is it more secure in terms of online security, to interact with python programs on a separate computer and not the one you do everyday business?
Thanks community!
Q1: No, it's just a text file. So you can view it with any text editor
Q2. If you mean by "opening", viewing in text edit, see answer to Q1. If by opening, you mean executing the script, then the answer depends on what the script does
web services don't run on your local computer, so they can't harm it.
Q3. The answer is no, because python installed on your computer is dormant.
Q4: There are lots of thing you can do on your computer which can do damage. For instance, you could delete all your files in your file explorer. Surely you already have backups?
Python scripts are human readable which makes them a very ineffective place to put secret code which does nasty things.
I've never heard anyone put python anywhere in a list of security risks, but if you are worried, use virtual box and run it in a virtual machine. I do a lot of my python development in a virtual machine, but not to minimise security risks ... there are other advantages to VMs (such as ease of backup, ease of moving to another computer). The other advantage, if you are using Windows, is that you can use a Linux VM, such as Ubuntu, which is a better experience for modern development. I think because of this, Microsoft has actually made it easy to install Ubuntu directly into Windows, if you have a recent version on Windows 10, so that's another option (e.g. https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutorial/tutorial-ubuntu-on-windows#0)
I haven't look at web IDEs for a while. As long as they have interactive python debugging, they could be a good option. I had the impression that cloud 9, now an amazon offer, was the best one, last time I checked them out.
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Recently, I've been thinking about how there are multiple versions of linux and how they are all built on a similar kernel. And I was wondering if it was possible with Windows. In this case I am thinking of having the first program loaded after the kernel has booted up and started all the devices, would be the what pops up instead of the windows login screen.
The reason for this is because I was wondering if it was possible to have the system render all the objects on the screen in a distint styling, but still process it as if it were running on a normal windows machine.
Any Thoughts?
Initially I thought this was a naive question, but Mooing Duck's link in the comments proved insightful. There are projects that do just this: EmergeDesktop, SharpE, even the KDE.
They're open and on sourceforge, go get them and dink around to your hearts content.
I'm not sure that the login screen is part of the shell however. So your alternate shell would only show up after you log in.
However, in the long run, alternate shells have no hope of competition. Microsoft controls the environment and they don't play too nice with competition.
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I am an Electrical Engineer about to start grad school for Com Sci. Currently I work in the defense industry and as a result most services and websites are blocked here. I'm trying to come up with a solution that will allow me to do my homework/projects while at work since they give us 2 hours a day on the clock to do school work if attending grad school. I don't have the necessary software tools on my work computer nor will I be able to get it. I would like to setup my build system on a ubuntu box and the best solution I could think of would be to use email and possibly FTPmail to automate the build process and email me back any errors that the compiler may return.
Has anyone ever done this before or does someone know of a software package that already implements this solution.
I'd suggest you look on some web-based virtual machine/desktop tools. Some I've seen in the wild are icloud and eyeOS.
Also, since installing any software is basically a no-no, you might want to check for Linux live-CDs. You can just pre-configure the disc with the necessary tools (SCM, IDE, etc.) and boot the computer from the Live disk during your 2 hours. Of course, that won't give you a hard drive to save your stuff, but you can just commit whatever you have before that 2 hours expires.
Edit: whatever you do, get this solution approved by your superior(s) before you attempt it.
It sounds like you will be able to access stuff outside of your network, even if you cannot install any software on your work system. One thing you can do:
Install a version control system (CVS, SVN, etc) on your Ubuntu box. You can store your projects/homework there.
Use Hudson (http://hudson-ci.org/) on your Ubunto box as your build system. You can create a job for it to checkout from your version control system and build. Anytime you want to build a project (lets say you made a change to some class), all you have to do is press the "build-now" button.
Hudson itself is almost entirely web-gui so it is easy to configure, and if you open up a port for Hudson, you should be able to access it directly from work (unless they block external websites).
Could you use a virtual machine at work? Even if you don't have administrator access to your work machine, you may be able to use Qemu and something like Puppy Linux. See, for example, http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/qemupuppy/
Along the lines of your original question, if you can host a machine that receives e-mail at home, you could certainly configure procmail (e.g., see http://www.perlcode.org/tutorials/procmail/proctut/) to match for e-mails from you with a certain subject and run a command (say, make). But you'd also need to set up an filters to fetch and submit files, etc.
Can you use something like VNC to remotely control your desktop or do you have restrictions for this kind of Sw too?
http://www.realvnc.com/
If I recall correctly, the client does not need to be installed, it could run from a pendrive...
http://www.pendriveapps.com/portable-vnc-viewer-realvnc/
This is not a remote system, but it might work if you can select a boot medium on the computers you work on. Your employer might not like this.
It is possible to install a linux box on a usb hard disk and then boot from that. In this you can install all sorts of development tools and projects. You would just borrow their hardware a bit...
I wouldn't advise this if you have not worked on linux before though. Linux can be a royal pain in the ass and you might not get your development environment up and running in a year if you only have 2 hours per day to spend...
good luck
Set your project up on github. You can do editing directly there through a web browser.
Then setup continual integration on Jenkins on your home system, or use Travis CI, and/or Appveyor to monitor your github repo and build your project when there are changes. If there are errors, you can set them up to send notifications.
The advantage of Travis or Appveyor is they are web based so you'd be able to look at the console output of broken builds where jenkins running at home probably wouldn't (I don't recall if you can get the whole output by email or not).