How to unhide Intel SSD - intel

I have bought a new Intel SSD 120GB. I wanted to use it as my operating system drive. However, I cannot find it in my computer. Even I went to Disk Management to assign new letter for it, it disappeared every time when I rebooted. I tried to use diskpart command to show my disk. It still automatically hided when I restart the computer. Is there anyone can tell me how to show it and make it as my operating system drive. Cheers.
This picture shows the disk is hidden

Go to cmd
type in "diskpart"
type "list volume"
select volume/harddrive
choose drive by typing "select volume x" (x is an assigned number)
type "assign"
exit diskpart and reboot if needed

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What is the process name of Metricbeat? ( To stop the Metricbeat)

I'm trying out Elastic cloud. I've downloaded Metricbeat- System metrics (Windows version) and set it up on my local computer. I configured it so that I can see my local computer's memory, cpu, disk space, etc on my dashboard in Kibana on Cloud (Elastic Cloud).
I rebooted my local computer and expected Kibana not to get any more metric data from my local computer through Metricbeat. However, it is still getting data from my computer. 1) I want to know the name of the Metricbeat process. (I can't find it :( )
2) I want to know how to stop Metricbeat on my local machine. (If every time when I reboot my system, it also comes back up. Killing the process wouldn't work in this case.)
Here is how I solved it.
I opened a taskmgr in Windows. And I found the process.
The name of Metricbeat process is metricbeat.exe.
I killed the process, but it seems to run automatically when I restart my computer.
I went into the folder where I downloaded and installed Metricbeat.
Run PowerShell as administrator. And type .\uninstall-service-metricbeat.ps1 to uninstall it.
Finally, in Kibana, from the moment when you uninstalled Metricbeat, it won't show any more data.

How to clear searchable history database in RStudio

In addition to the .Rhistory file,
RStudio maintains a database of all commands which you have ever entered into the Console. You can browse and search this database using the History pane. (source)
This one appears to still be searchable even when .Rhistory has been deleted.
How can I empty it? Cleaning it up might be necessary after, for example, installing from a private repo using a password, when I know other users have access to the computer. For example, I was a bit anxious seeing this popping up, after entering pass into the search field... (ノ゚0゚)ノ~
Thanks to Phann's hint, I found:
Deleting history_database seems to do the job. An empty database file is automatically recreated when starting RStudio again (tested on MacOS and Linux). The folder where to find history_database depends on your os and is described for the more general case here.
MacOS and Linux
~/.rstudio-desktop
Windows Vista, 7 and 8
%localappdata%\RStudio-Desktop # (i.e. Phann's path, I guess)
Windows XP
%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\RStudio-Desktop
Linux RStudio-Server
~/.rstudio
On my Win7 system, I found the file history_database within C:/Users/../AppData/Local/RStudio-Desktop. It has a unix-like time stamp per line followed by a command.
I would guess that if you empty this file, the history is cleared. But I haven't tried the solution yet, so better make a copy of the file to be on the save side.
The file should be in a similar folder in Win10.

PgAdmin III not responding when trying to restore a database

I'm trying to restore a database (via a backup file), I'm on PgAdmin III (Postgresql 9.1).
After choosing the backup file, a window indicating that pg_restore.exe is running then PgAdmin is not responding ,it has been few hours (It is not a RAM shortage issue)
It might be due the backup file size (500 MB), but i have already restored a database with a 300 MB backup file few days ago, and it was done smoothly.
By the way the format of the backup file ( created via pg_dump)is the "tar" format.
Please let me know if anything comes to mind or if you need any more information. I appreciate any help or pointers anyone has. Thanks in advance.
I have the same problem and I solved looking this web site tutorial
File has been generated in my backup with the size of 78 MB, I have generated it again using
Format:Custom
Ratio:
Enconding: UTF8
Rolename:postgres
I try to restore again and then works fine.
On OS X I had similar issues. After selecting the .backup file and clicking restore in pgAdmin I got the spinning beachball. Everything however was working in the background, the UI was just hanging.
One way you can check that everything is working is by looking at Activity Monitor on OS X or Resource Monitor on Windows. If you look at the 'Disk' tab you should see activity from postgres and you should see the value in the 'Bytes Read' column slowly going up. I was restoring a ~15G backup and the counter in the 'Bytes Read' column slowly counted up and up. When it got to 15G it finished without errors and the pgAdmin UI became active again.
(BTW, my 15G restore took about 1.5 hours on a Mac with an i7 and 8G of RAM)

Running R from CD-ROM

Can R be run from a CD-ROM drive? The computer is a stand-alone (no network or Internet connection) and I can't install anything on it, nor can I use a flash drive.
Thanks.
What do you mean by "can't install"?
You don't need to install R, you can just run it from a folder copied from somewhere else. If you have hard disk storage on the PC then you can copy C:\Program Files\R from one machine onto a CD-ROM, then take the CD-ROM to the cripplebox, copy it to wherever you store your files and run it from there. Worst case scenario is you have to change the R_HOME environment variable. Works for Linux and Windows (you didnt say what OS you are on).
...unless your sysadmins have disabled executable permissions for your hard disk storage. Which is a real BOFH thing to do.
...but if they've done that I'd also suspect they've disabled executables from CD-ROM too.
...and if you don't have any writable hard disk storage, how the heck are you going to do any analysis?
...the real fix may be to kick the sysadmins until you tell them you can't do your job without R installed on the machine.
You may have trouble with packages, but otherwise, the instructions for installing R on a USB key should be pertinent.

How to programatically change the output mode of an intel gma450 graphics card to clone

I would like to change the output mode of an Intel GMA450 based graphics chip to "cloned" mode.
Since the environment is a Windows Embedded Standard and only one of the connected monitors might be visible for the enduser, I would like to either permanently set the output mode to cloned or reset it continuously to cloned mode in case the actual mode differs (e.g. after a reboot, disconect/reconect of the second monitor or by other means).
Is there a way (Registrykey, API for the Intel driver, Win-Api) to change the display mode to cloned / dual output programatically?
Update:
I found the SDK for the IEDG driver it seems that I might be able to programatically set the resolution, clone mode etc.
However, I can't find the SDK or any information for the driver I am currently using: Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Windows* XP, version 14.32.4.4926.
This isn't a good answer, but it might get you headed in a direction to figure it out.
My last laptop had an external monitor connected, and the Intel drivers would often be confused about the orientation of the secondary after a reconnect or a reboot. I got tired of dealing with that and tried to fix it programatically because the clicks were too many in the GUI. Select this monitor, select rotation, select other monitor, select rotation, apply, arrange, apply, wait...
I spent about a day on it (ahh, the days of being an employee vs. self-employed!) and the solution I found was to use a program to compare the registry (regshot perhaps?) to discover what keys were involved in the correction (what they were before versus what they were after) and then there was an intel-provided exe that forced the driver to reset based on the registry-- the exe was essentially like pressing the "apply" button in the gui. I was running XP and if I recall, the gui management was for configuration of the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Windows XP as well. So the final solution became a cmd file on my desktop that would apply a REG without confirmation and then run an exe with some parameters.
Now, I don't have that laptop (they didn't let me walk out the door with it when I quit!) and I do not remember the specifics on the exe that was required to do the reset. Just changing registry keys didn't spontaneously cause it to take effect-- there was an api call involved, which I just handled with their exe. I know that isn't a lot to go on, but something tells me the file was in the driver package, or somewhere on the drive already, and I just found it. Running it at the command line gave options. Like /reset.
I hope that helps you a little. Be sure to post back if you figure it out.
Also post back if I'm completely mistaken and it didn't happen like this at all. But that's the way I remember it. :)

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