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Questions tagged [computing-environment]

Computing environment refers to the system environment in which programs are developed or operate. It includes questions dealing with system-related program interactions and the software development environment. For questions about a virtual environment, use one of the specific specialized tags. For the user's working environment, use the [work-environment] tag. Use [environment-variables] if the question is specifically about that.

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Is it possible to create an isolated environment to install 3rd party application into?

I am looking for a utility / method to install 3rd part applications, such has embedded compilers, into its own isolated environment, including registry. On Mac OS X I use homebrew to achieve this. Being a Mac convert I realize that the two OS are…
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Change Path for OS X

I am not asking how to change the path for mac OS X terminal windows. I am having this problem, and I’d like to be able to launch by clicking. It does work if I open it in a terminal window (since the path is set correctly). I have tried adding a…
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Changing the prompt when ssh to another box

I want to be able to set a custom prompt (to help with automating jobs, the prompt should be something I can reliably detect). I found I am able to set the prompt remotely, like this: wim@wim-acer:~$ ssh guest@192.168.1.124 -i…
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Bash: Press enter won't shift to new line, how to revert it back?

Sometime, when i try to do some execution and press ctrl-c , the final output bash would look like this...when i press enter , it won't shift to new line but next to each other. how can i revert it back without creating another bash prompt? $…
Kit Ho
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Virtualization of multiple command line tools

Short Question Has anyone had success virtualizing multiple command line tools in Windows? Background In a previous SU Question I asked how to setup isollated work envrionments. The over all answer was to virtualize the application. I have done…
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Running PowerFlex Program on Windows

I have an old program written in PowerFlex and I would like to see if I can get it running on Windows. Does anyone have an idea of what I need to get started doing this?
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Elastic beanstalk Rails - defaults to production environment even if I set staging environment

I am trying to bring up a staging instance of rails applciation using elastic beanstalk. I followed the documentation and did the following : eb init --environment staging eb start --environment staging After this, I checked that the…
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Development Environment

I needed to migrate from Linux to Windows recently. It means, I currently do not own any local enviroment. I'm looking for sugestions. I have two possibilities: set up in office server buy a VPS I’m PHP/RoR/Django web-programmer, I co-work with…
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How to remove computername from home path?

I've just installed Windows 7, with the user name USERNAME, and machine name MACHINENAME. The home path is set to C:\Users\USERNAME.MACHINENAME. (The computer is NOT on a domain.) How do I change it to just C:\Users\USERNAME?
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Development environment clean installation

I'm about to install a new and clean development environment. To accomplish that, I would like a Windows operating system (possibly Windows 7) and a Ubuntu one (possibly the most recent, 10.04). To allow sharing data between the two operating…
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How can I separate my work-developer environment and home-user environment effectively?

I used python-virtualenv previously for python tools, but now I've found a new remote job which needs a lot of native tools to be installed into my system. The question is how can I separate my work-developer environment and home-user…
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User environment state report

What is the most easy way to help a user create a report about his environment? Conditions: Do not need administrator permissions Run locally on user's PC The result should be placed in a file Need to verify is there a specific file, software or…
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The Ubuntu package development environment

I've read a lot (e.g., http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/, http://developer.ubuntu.com/resources/) but still can't figure out the following questions. Is there cutting-edge Ubuntu package development environment as "constant" as Debian…
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If I virtualise my work laptop can I use both the virtualised and physical instances

I'm quite keen to virtualise my work laptop so that I can leave my work device in my bag when I get home and fire up my much nicer and more powerful home PC to continue my work. I know this isn't a problem to virtualise the device however I would be…
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"/usr/bin/env bash" is not found when running from a cron script

I have this in my crontab: PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH */1 * * * * /usr/bin/env bash > ~/cron.log 2>&1 The ouput in cron.log is the following: /usr/bin/env bash: No such file or directory /usr/bin/env as well as /bin/bash both exist. And I…
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