How to remove a USB drive without worrying if its been unmounted?
Patient: “Doctor, It hurts when I do this.”
Doctor: “Well, don’t do that.”
— maybe the Marx Brothers, but they probably stole it from other vaudevillians if so
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Remap keyboard on the Linux console
I’m using Debian and I want to remap my keyboard because it has some problem. I googled and found xmodmap. But it doesn’t work in graphicless mode, like tty1.
What are the differences between rdesktop and xfreerdp?
rdesktop and xfreerdp are both linux clients for RDP.
Edit home directory for an LDAP user in Linux
I have an LDAP user who accesses a server based on having the appropriate LDAP host attribute via sssd. This user does not show up in /etc/passwd because he is not local. How do I modify his home dir location if he has already logged in and it was created in the default location? RHEL 6 Is it just usermod -d /new/location -m?
Where are the contents of /proc of the Linux kernel documented?
Is there a site someplace that lists the contents of /proc and what each entry means?
Overhead of using loop-mounted images under Linux
Is there a CPU/RAM overhead associated with using loop-mounted images versus using a physical partition under Linux?
Why does this BSD grep result differ from GNU grep?
My computer is running macOS 10.12.3 and I am using the system-installed grep utility with version 2.5.1-FreeBSD.
How is the order in which tar works on files determined?
$ touch dir/{{1..8},{a..p}} $ tar cJvf file.tar.xz dir/ dir/ dir/o dir/k dir/b dir/3 dir/1 dir/i dir/7 dir/4 dir/e dir/a dir/g dir/2 dir/d dir/5 dir/8 dir/c dir/n dir/f dir/h dir/6 dir/l dir/m dir/j dir/p I would have expected it to be alphabetical. But apparently it’s not. What’s the formula, here? Answers: Thank you for visiting the … Read more
How Linux uses /dev/tty and /dev/tty0
I can see the difference between /dev/tty and /dev/tty0 by testing the provided method from this question. But I really wonder about the practical usage of those devices (like situations they will be used).
Why are some Intel family 6 CPU models (Core 2, Pentium M) not supported by intel_idle?
I’ve been tuning my Linux kernel for Intel Core 2 Quad (Yorkfield) processors, and I noticed the following messages from dmesg: