C#’s IEnumerable and IEnumerator interfaces are used by collections like Arrays and Lists to standardize methods of looping over them and performing actions, like filtering and selecting with LINQ statements. We’ll discuss how they work, and how to use them. What Is an Enumerable? The term “Enumerable” defines an object that is meant to be iterated over, passing over each element once in order. In C#, an Enumerable is an object like an array, list, or any other sort of collection that implements the IEnumerable interface....

This guide will focus on the basics for getting a new hard drive up and running on Linux. If you need more complex management, we recommend using Logical Volume Management (LVM) instead, which follows a different procedure. Among other things, this makes managing partitions on drives easier, and allows for easy resizing of logical volumes. Install The Drive This may seem self explanatory, but it’s not always as simple as just plugging it in....

To keep your slideshow consistent, you may want to use the same formatting for fonts, images, and other slide elements. Rather than adjust every item each time, you can copy and paste formatting in PowerPoint in a few different ways. We’ll show you three methods for copying and pasting formatting for easier slideshow development. As a result, you’ll have the flexibility to use the method that’s easiest for you or most convenient for the item you’re formatting at the time....

Note: For the purposes of our exercise, we’ll be using the built-in clip utility in Windows 7 or Vista—if you are using Windows XP, you can download clip.exe from Microsoft, just make sure to save the file in the Windows directory. Copy Output from Command Line Applications to the Clipboard To copy text from a command to the clipboard, we’ll just pipe it into the clip command, like this:...

photo by epsos.de The computer is a powerful educational tool for children. Despite the many benefits that computer offers to children, it also has the potential to introduce harmful content for the children. Here’s how to make Ubuntu safer for the children. It is not very effective to watch over our children shoulder to keep an eye on what they are doing in the computer. Luckily Ubuntu is built with various functionality to control our children uses the computer....

Stage Manager, introduced in macOS 13 Ventura, is a different way to manage windows on your Mac. One of Apple’s boldest software changes in 2022, Stage Manager has proved to be divisive, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try it out for yourself. Turn On Stage Manager in Control Center Stage Manager is off by default when you first reboot after installing macOS 13 Ventura. You’ll find the toggle for Stage Manager under Control Center, accessed via the macOS menu bar in the top-right corner of the screen....

For the following article we are using Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit edition. Download and Install madFLAC v1.8 The first thing we need to do is download and install the madFLAC v1.8 decoder (link below). Just unzip the file and run install.bat… You’ll get a message that it has been successfully registered, click Ok. To verify everything is working, open up one of your FLAC files with WMP, and you’ll get the following message....

In this article, we explore how to leverage the DigitalOcean REST API with PowerShell to deploy a droplet into the existing environment. Installing PowerShell Core If you are running a Windows system, you might have the previous version of PowerShell known as Windows PowerShell. If you have Linux, you will need to install PowerShell to make sure that we can run the commands and scripts needed. Follow this link for instructions as to how to do this....

In this article we will show you how to use Windows 7 and a desktop wallpaper changing software to cure severe boring wallpaper syndrome on our desktop. Using Windows 7 RSS Backgrounds Windows 7 comes with a desktop personalization feature to rotate our wallpaper with images from an RSS Feed or a set of images that we can access from the ‘Personalization’ menu in our desktop. We can choose any of the available themes or create our own personalized theme....

Google Cloud Platform has many tools for working with and running containerized apps using Docker, including managed Kubernetes and serverless container execution. We’ll discuss how to get a container service running on GCP. Which Service Should You Use? You basically have two options for running containers. The first is Cloud Run, which is very simple and easy to use, and will get the job done for most people. Containers are treated as “services,” which are allotted a specific amount of memory and a CPU core (or two) to use....

Note: This particular example is a real one that I used earlier today to save a small amount of time, but these are techniques that I’ve used many times over the years to literally save myself days worth of time. The Scenario I was trying to go through and clean out a bunch of incorrect broadcast messages in our email newsletter account, when I realized that their interface required me to manually click the Delete button and then confirm it on every single message—we’re talking about 300 incorrect messages that needed to be deleted....

How Is IO Performance Measured? There are many different ways to read and write to disks, so no single number exists for “speed” that you can measure. The simplest way to measure performance is to time how long it takes to read large files or perform large file copies. This measures sequential read and write speed, which is a good metric to know, but you’ll rarely see speeds this high in practice, especially in a server environment....

TypeScript adds static typing to JavaScript, which improves the IDE experience and reduces bugs. It’s easy to learn, but transitioning an existing application to TypeScript can be an arduous process. We’ll discuss some of the techniques for working with it in your app. What Is TypeScript? TypeScript is a syntactical superset of JavaScript that adds support for static typing, among other things. It compiles directly to vanilla JS that will run in any browser....

What we’ll do is use Dropbox sync to easily get the torrent files from the laptop to the desktop PC at home, and then use the auto-watching feature of Transmission or uTorrent to check for new torrent files in our Dropbox folder. Setting Up Prerequisites If you’re running OS X or Linux and you don’t already have Transmission and Dropbox installed, you’ll need to do so, though Transmission is installed by default on many distributions of Linux....

Linux Mint Linux Mint is an increasingly popular distribution of Linux, and many users have found it more user friendly and convenient than other versions. Mint is based on Ubuntu, and as such includes an excellent installer that lets you install it directly from Windows. You install it just like a standard Windows program, and can uninstall it from Command Prompt. The installer is only available in a ISO disk image file, though, so it can still be difficult to install on a computer without a CD/DVD drive such as a netbook....

Privacy has been a big issue online lately, and many people have been trying to cut back on the amount of information they share about themselves online. But 2 popular Google services, Analytics and AdSense, both collect data about you from many sites you visit across the internet. With these quick tricks, though, you can opt-out of some of Google’s data collection. Opt out of Google Analytics Tracking Google Analytics is a popular service that web publishers use to find out information about the visitors to their site and their number of page views over time....

Shutdown Event Tracker Note: This process uses Local Group Policy Editor which is not available in Home versions of Windows. We also show how to enable Shutdown Event Tracker with a Registry hack below. To enable this feature, click on Start and type in gpedit.msc and hit Enter. In Local Group Policy Editor navigate to Computer Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ System then on the left hand side under Setting, scroll down to Display Shutdown Event Tracker under setting....

There are a lot of Show-branded devices in the Echo lineup, but in terms of the Echo Show 5, this second generation version is the latest and greatest model, even with a release window of June 2021. Don’t let that date deter you, though, because this device is a solid one.

Microsoft Office Upload Center When you upload an Office 2010 document to the web, a handy tool to manage them is the Office Upload Center. It’s a way to see what is being uploaded or what might have failed to reach the servers. It lets you know if a document failed to upload for some reason. In this case it looks like the incorrect credentials were entered when signing into Windows Live....

It doesn’t matter if the missing files came from a virus, poorly programmed software, or a family member who didn’t know better. We have all found ourselves in the situation of needing a system file that we can’t find. Luckily if you still have your install disks you can manually restore the system files you need without doing a reinstall. Note: Replacing system files can be very dangerous and may break your system even more than it already is....