There's a program called file in my laptop's post BSD OS. How to run a similar utility, in Microsoft PowerShell? This is a bit hard to search, so I guess some experts exchange is required here.
I sometimes get files from my clients that have the wrong file extension. For example, the name is image.jpg but the file is actually a TIFF image. In many cases I can clarify it by opening the file in a text editor, looking at the first few bytes, then deducing which file type it is.  This works for me with JPEG, TIFF, GIF and PDF files. However there are many more file types out there.  Is it possible to automate identification of the correct file type by analyzing the containing data?
What's the difference between iterating over a file with foreach or while in Perl? VT-x is not available, but is enabled in BIOS Recently I started having an issue with VT-x on my Windows 10 running on HP EliteBook. I was using Oracle VirtualBox to run some VMs on it before and VT-x was enabled in BIOS and was working fine.  I started getting VT-x is not available error every time I was trying to start any of my VMs. That started happening after I installed Docker on my machine, so I tried uninstalling it and rebooting. Didn't help.  I checked BIOS settings and it says VT-x is enabled but checking with Intel(R) Processor Identification Utility shows that VT-x is not supported and Oracle VirtualBox also doesn't see it.  There were no hardware changes and the only software change was installing/uninstalling Docker.  How can this issue be fixed? Blender 2.78 file size grows and does never shrink I made a huge project, wanted to reduce file size from 1.3GB to below 1GB. Compressing did not help. I removed objects from scene. Also textures. I then realized, the file size even was the same when I delete ALL objects. Why?  Download of sample:   Before deleting all: 1.2GB, after: 1.1GB. I found the following blog title without a question mark from :     How to ease Afghanistan’s progress in cricket   Is it grammatical, if we don't put question mark in questions of titles? I think this blog title should have been like this:     How to ease Afghanistan’s progress in cricket?   I also found the following blog title from  without a question mark:     Election rigging 101: How to steal a mandate   However, I found a question mark from other blog title of :     Elections 101: What is the ECP and what does it do on election day? Consider the sentence      E-books are on the rise, but they haven't suppressed paper books though.    This usage seems to be quite common, but when I learned English  I was taught to use "however" where I now read "though". My questions on this use of "though" are:     Is this a new trend? Is it restricted to American English? Is "though"  considered more colloquial than "however" ?    And on a syntactic level: Do you put a comma before "though"? Create line heatmap with QGIS I have loaded my bike tours as .gpx files into QGIS.    It already looks quite nice but I was wondering if it might be possible to create something similar to the strava heatmap with tools of QGIS.     I have tried to generate points along the lines and use kernel density but it just does not look nice as a raster layer.  Any suggestions? How to sync gnome-calendar with an online calendar? I thought it was awesome that Ubuntu 16.04 shipped with gnome-calendar, but I noticed that holidays were not included.  I also noticed that there is an option to sync the calendar with an online one, how do I do this?  I don't know of any online calendars I could use. Bash shell script output alignment My script:  date echo -e "${YELLOW}Network check${NC}\n\n"  while read hostname do  ping -c 1 "$hostname" &gt; /dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 &amp;&amp;  echo -e "Network $hostname : ${GREEN}Online${NC}" || echo -e "${GRAY}Network $hostname${NC} : ${RED}Offline${NC}"  done &lt; list.txt         sleep 30 clear done   Is outputting info like this:    Network 10.x.xx.xxx : Online    Network 10.x.xx.xxx : Offline    Network 10.x.xx.xxx : Offline    Network 10.x.xx.xxx : Offline    Network 10.x.xx.x : Online    Network 139.xxx.x.x : Online    Network 208.xx.xxx.xxx : Online    Network 193.xxx.xxx.x : Online   which I'd like to clean up to get something like this:    Network 10.x.xx.xxx       : Online   Network 10.x.xx.xxx       : Offline    Network 10.x.xx.xxx       : Offline     Network 10.x.xx.x         : Online     Network 139.xxx.x.x       : Online   Network 208.xx.xxx.xxx    : Online     Network 193.xxx.xxx.x     : Online   Network 193.xxx.xxx.xxx   : Offline Best way to parse RSS/Atom feeds with PHP Methods to work around the problem of missing data in machine learning Virtually any database we want to make predictions using machine learning algorithms will find missing values ​​for some of the characteristics.  There are several approaches to address this problem, to exclude lines that have missing values ​​until they fill with the mean values ​​of the characteristics.  I would like to use for a somewhat more robust approach, which would basically run a regression (or another method) where the dependent variable (Y) would be each of the columns that have missing values ​​but only with the rows of the table that contain all the data , and predict the missing values ​​with this method, complete the table by the table and move to the next 'column' with missing values ​​and repeat the method until everything is filled.  But that gives me some doubts.  Why any column start? I believe that the one with the smallest missing values ​​until the one with the most  Is there any threshold of missing values ​​that is not worth trying to complete it? (for example, if this characteristic only has 10% of the values ​​filled would not it be more interesting to exclude it)  Is there any kind of implementation in traditional packages or other methods that are robust to missings? Convert DOS line endings to Linux line endings in Vim If I open files I created in Windows, the lines all end with ^M. How do I delete these characters all at once? Rerouting stdin and stdout from C Genitive case or attributive noun Is there any rule for when it is better to use genitive case or noun as adjective? I'm not sure if there is any difference in meaning in this example:     The department of accounting       The accounting department   Can I also use both forms in situations like:     The restaurants of Paris / The Paris restaurants      The room window / The window of the room External Hard Drive no longer working I am on a MacBook Pro 13 running latest Sierra. I have an external Seagate solid state hard drive that was working and out of the blue stopped working. The only thing on it was my Adobe Lightroom images/videos. Not the LR DB files. I'm sure you have all heard this woe before, so I won't dwell on that. And yes, I back up to the cloud. AWS S3 specifically. Though I am traveling South East Asia for the last year, and staying in cheap hostels. So good internet is hard to come by sometimes. I can't back it up after every export. While most of it is backed up, there is some that is not.  Moving on. The symptoms seems to change every time I plug it in. The first sign was it ejected on it's own. I plugged it in again, and it wouldn't mount. Disk Utility recognized it, so did the command line diskutil list but it wouldn't mount. I rebooted and it worked for a second. Then I could only get to it from the command line. Then trying to frantically back up to my local what was not backed up to the cloud, it all failed. Basically just a cp -R [directory] [local-directory] command.  After some more frantic unplugging and re-plugging plus some command line manual mounts, I finally got it to where the Disk Utility would be able to run first aid on it. It failed. I don't recall the error. So I put it in a freezer. After a few hours I tried again. It is not any better. It still will not mount. Now Disk Utility sees it, but with no partition. I can't even give me information about how much space is used on it.  I have also tried it from a Windows machine. It did not mount. I have tried other cables. No success. As well as tried my other USB port. I also have another working external hard drive exactly like the one giving me issues. It works on all cables and USB ports.  I do have Docker running with a Ubuntu container, I'm trying to think of a way to see if I can try to get to the USB from there. I also have a USB that I have thought about running a live Ubuntu on there to see if I can mount and retrieve the data or fix the HDD that way. But if it will not mount, I doubt these will work.  Can anyone else think of any other tricks I can try myself to see if I can repair this or at least retrieve the data without paying for a service or software? If not, those suggestions are also welcome.  Update   I made the mistake in original post that it was a Solid State Drive. This is my mistake, it is actually a spinning disk hard drive. I bought them long ago and have been traveling with them for so long I just forgot. Question is updated to reflect this. Now diskutil list does not show it at all. The Disk Utility app also does not see it. Based on suggestion from @Allen I seeked out the USB to SATA cable. I did not quite find it, as my options are extremely limited where I am at. Though a local expat on a facebook group was able to help me with a empty 2.5 casing that I was able to extract the drive from original casing and put it in his blank case. It now mounts. Though it has the "click of death" sound to it. And data is not really reachable. While I can ls the directories and Adobe Lightroom does not have the exclamation mark when it can not reach the actual external files. Right clicking on the images and clicking on "Show in Finder" or any other variation of trying to get to the files through Finder or terminal, I have no success. It usually hangs and I get the spinning wheel. Since Adobe Lightroom imports these images into directories named by date, I am going to send the drive off to a data recovery service and ask to recover just unbacked up directories i.e. dates. Next time I will make harder efforts to backup and probably get an actual SSD.   I think this can be closed, due to my low reputation points I can not close this myself. How to disable javascript modal popup ads Markdown in chat fails for multi-line messages Can someone define what exactly 'POCO' means? I am encountering the term more and more often, and I'm wondering if it is only about plain classes or it means something more? What exactly is flash sync speed and should it be a factor in a buying decision? Troubleshoot High CPU usage by the "System" process Claim: if $f$ is differentiable at $x = x_0$ then $f$ is continuous at $x = x_0$.   Please, see if I made some mistake in the proof below. I mention some theorems in the proof:   The condition to $f(x)$ be continuous at $x=x_0$ is $\lim\limits_{x\to x_0} f(x)=f(x_0)$.  (1) If $f(x)$ is differentiable at $x-x_0$, then $f'(x)=\lim\limits_{x\to x_0} \dfrac{f(x)-f(x_0)}{x-x_0}$ exists and the function is defined at $x=x_0$.   (2) Therefore, by the Limit Linearity Theorem, $\lim\limits_{x\to x_0} f(x)$ exists and we'll show it is equals $f(x_0)$.   (3) We'll do this by the Precise Limit Definion: given $ \epsilon&gt;0, \exists\delta|0&lt;|x-x_0|&lt;\delta$, then $0&lt;|f(x)-f(x_0)|&lt;\epsilon$. As this limit exists by (2), we can make $f(x)$ as close to  $f(x_0)$ as one wishes, therefore $\lim\limits_{x\to x_0} f(x)=f(x_0)$, what satisfies the condition for $f(x)$ be differentiable at  $x=x_0$. The end.