I have a decade old laptop that is “working”, with Debian 4.x running.
It has working USB, but cannot boot from USB. Its optical drive is powered but doesn’t seem to work (I have tried booting several old bootable CDs and DVDs).
I just formatted stuff. One disk I format as ext2. The other I want to format as ext4. I want to test how they perform.
When I was using kubuntu, I could always open X applications with sudo, sudo kate for example. Now that I’ve switched to arch that doesn’t work. I know I’ve always been told to use kdesu, but what setting is there in kubuntu that lets me use sudo on X apps that prevents me from doing it on arch?
When ls is called, it outputs all the files/directories in the current directory, attempting to fit as many as possible on each line. Why is it that when passed to wc -l, it outputs the number of files? How does it decide how many lines to output its results in?
I’m setting up udev to handle my external USB hard drive when it gets plugged in and removed (no mounting yet). So far, I’ve made two new rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules to log adding/removing the disk to a file:
I have set up a VM of Ubuntu server, have installed OpenSSH, and am now trying to connect to it using Putty. Within Putty, under “Host name”, I put “Ubuntu”, given this is what I thought it was called when I set up the VM. However, I just get the error: “Connection Timed Out”.
A question for ls command.
I’m trying to install the drivers to my wireless adapter (TL-WN821N version 5):
I’ve installed Oracle Java. I want to be able to remove OpenJDK, but when trying to do so apt wants to install another version of Java.
I want to make small bash scripts that will automate some stuff for me in new machines. The only thing I still do manual is creating files with vi and pasting the text on the file. How can I generate file X with “text i need here” inside it on bash? Without having to press … Read more