If the Windows search bar is not working for you, here is how to fix it. These steps don’t need a restart. Steps to resolving the issue. Open an Administrator Command Prompt and enter the command below. The command will open a dialogue window. Click next. Now check “Can’t start a search or see results” […]
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I’m Darryl. I’m a 3D Artist, Programmer and Linux enthusiast. On this site I share my insights, tips and tricks, tutorials, methods and best practices.
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How To Uninstall Autodesk Genuine Service
If you have stopped using Autodesk products, you might have uninstalled all the programs you no longer use, but wait; there is more. Autodesk never lets you uninstall Autodesk Genuine Service from your computer. You have to uninstall it manually. The uninstaller will launch when executing it, but it does not allow you to uninstall […]
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Fixing Houdini startup error on Linux
After installing Houdini, you may come across this error. This error appears in the Terminal; if you open it from the application launcher, you maybe be getting this error, but it does not show in any way. The solution to this error is to set the environment variable of LD_PRELOAD, as given below. You can […]
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How do I search for an available Python package using pip?
If you search for packages using pip, you may encounter this error. This is because, after December 2020, the pip search functionality was discontinued due to an unmanageable load on PyPi’s XMLRPC API service. The alternative to this is installing the pip_search package using pip. Pip search is similar to the pip search command; it […]
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Finding all files with a certain extension in Linux?
The example above uses the find command to search files in the tmp folder for Python files that have the extension .py. To get a list of all the files with the same extension inside the current directory, look for all the Python extension files for this example. In the above example, the. Denotes the […]