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The O/S in which a process is executed, especially settings that affect the process

A computing environment consists of the following items:

  • Server hardware
  • Operating system
  • Software (both the software being used, and supporting software, such as and )
  • Data (input/output) from the software
  • Environment settings, such as executable PATH search directories

Commonly, for software development there are three main groups of environments:

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How can I get the current user directory?

Using this: Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData) I get this output: "C:\\Documents and Settings\\[USER]\\Application Data" How can I get the root directory of all users? i.e.: "C:\\Documents and Settings\\[USER]\\"
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What is the difference between parent.frame() and parent.env() in R; how do they differ in call by reference?

It would be helpful if someone can illustrate this with a simple example? Also, where would it be useful to use parent.frame() instead of parent.env() and vice versa.
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How to find the path of the local git repository when I am possibly in a subdirectory

I'm looking for something like git list-path printing the path of the associated repository (the .git directory). A bit of background: I have set up git version control on quite a few of my projects/folders. Some of them are nested, so one…
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How can I determine if my rails is in the development environment and not the test environment?

I have some code that needs to run only if the rails app is in the development environment (i.e. $ rails server) but not in the test environment (i.e. $ rake test). When I try if Rails.env.development? dont run me during testing end the code…
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Error: Registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment'\CurrentVersion'?

When I run: C:\Users\ashahria\Downloads>java -jar schemaSpy_5.0.0.jar I get the error below. What is wrong? How can I fix it? Error: Registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment'\CurrentVersion' has value '1.5', but '1.7' is…
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python subprocess Popen environment PATH?

Suppose there's an executable and a Python script to launch it, and they're located in 'sibling' subdirectories, e.g. /tmp/subdir1/myexecutable /tmp/subdir2/myscript.py If in /tmp and running python subdir2/myscript.py with a relative path to…
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Set windows environment variables with a batch file

I was looking for a way to set the environment path variable with a .cmd file. When the path variable was getting too long, I got some errors. Just add the needed variables to 'Set Path variable' below Check the current value of your path variable…
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What is run time environment?

Can some one explain what it means in simple terms. Does it mean the environment (DOS, Windows, Linux, etc) where the application codes are run?
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What's the difference between python shebangs with /usr/bin/env rather than hard-path?

I used to use the shebang #!/usr/bin/env python When is it better to use #!/usr/bin/python What is the exact difference between them?
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Environment variables in Eclipse

I am able to run a sample hadoop program from the command prompt and am trying to run the same program from Eclipse, so that I can debug it and understand it better. For the command line program, some environment variables are set in the .bashrc and…
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UNIX, get environment variable

I have a ridiculous question due to a ridiculous problem. Normally if I want to get the contents of an environment variable in a UNIX shell, I can do echo ${VAR} Let's assume, due to my ridiculous situation, that this isn't possible. How do I get…
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How to use seed.rb to selectively populate development and/or production databases?

I am using seed.rb to populate both my development and production database. I usually populate the first with dummy data and the latter with the real minimal data that my app needs to run (e.g. the first user and so on). How can I specify in seed.rb…
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Can I add a channel to a specific conda environment?

I want to add a conda channel to a specific conda environment but when I use conda config --add channels glotzer that channel is now available from all my conda environments. In addition to testing an install from another environment, the…
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How to create a simple desktop environment?

I want to know how to create a simple desktop environment, such as KDE, Gnome and LXDE, for Linux, or specifically, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, but I do not know how to begin and how complex it is. I want to create a simple, efficient and lightweight desktop…
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Autowired Environment is null

I have an issue with connecting environment to my Spring project. In this class @Configuration @ComponentScan(basePackages = "my.pack.offer.*") @PropertySource("classpath:OfferService.properties") public class PropertiesUtil { @Autowired …
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