I've got 75 documents in KWD format, from my old days using KDE 3.x. I'd like to convert them to ODT or RTF, so I can edit them with Open Office, Abiword or the newer KWord, but I haven't found a good/quick way to do it.
Opening them in an old version of KWord and exporting them works, but if I ...
I've got a long line that I want to insert a space every 4 characters, on a single lone line of solid text to make it easier to read, what's the simplest way to do this? also I should be able to input the line from a pipe. e.g.
echo "foobarbazblargblurg" | `split`
gives
foob arba zbla rgbl urg
Each time I install or operate in other means l10n-related packages, the APT system "rebuilds" a lot of English locales, which takes considerable time. Look at the APT log:
Configuring language-pack-en-base (1:10.10+20100930) ...
Generating locales...
en_AG.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_AU.UTF-8......
I am using Ubuntu and i would like to know the answer for this question:
How does one determine whether his/her APPLE IPOD's charge is full in Linux?
In windows it's easy since iTunes, shows the charge on the IPOD. But in Linux neither Rhytmbox nor gTKpod shows the battery charge available. A...
Is there a way to have bash automatically load shell scripts I create and place into /usr/bin?
Or is there a different place I should put custom shell scripts so that they are automatically loaded?
For example suppose I create a script called myscript with contents:
#!/bin/bash
alias e=echo
...
Hi,
I have this situation: My debian laptop is connected to the Internet via its wlan interface through my wireless router. And lately I decided to install freebsd on a very old machine (a celeron 300Mhz) which has only one ethernet interface.
I can't connect this desktop (celeron) to the rout...
Hi,
I would like to know how can I give permissions in sudoers such that each member of a group is able to kill the process owned by another member of the group.
Scenario: I have two users -- bill and dev-cron who are members of the group tech. I'd like bill to be able to kill processes started...
Hi,
I'm looking at tmux from screen, and have hit a bump while configuring the (highly configurable!) tmux key bindings.
Problem is, in my .screenrc i have
bindkey ^[[d prev
bindkey ^[[c next
bindkey ^[[a title
bindkey ^[[b screen 1
and the bindings work (they originally came from rxvt-tabbe...
I'm trying to start an application within Ubuntu (xfce or gnome) and via the
command line and was wondering if there's a generic way to set the dimensions of a
given window of a given app that is currently running?
In addition, if the answer is on Wikipedia and you want to link there, it's helpful to provide a summary of the relevant part of the article here, so the user gets an idea without needing to click the link. In general, when you post a link somewhere, try to write the answer such that it's still u...
I was a big fan of Frank Herbert's short stories and novels dealing with the consequences of humans gaining immortality. Usually there's an underclass of mortal people who live crappy lives like in Zardoz.
Does anyone know of any other works that feature humans gaining immortality?
For a few years now, it appears 'no one' ever mentions dselect for package management. Considering that it still exists as part of dpkg source, it must still have its uses. What are those? How does it compare with apt-get?
no, even for discussion; not optimum, but still better than ML; ppl would create new answers, and mention who they are responding to (if what they have to say can't be condensed into a comment)
Once i tried to make a virtual host, and the problem was that if i make another file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ that says
...
DocumentRoot /var/www/newsite
ServerName newsite
...
Then save it, restart apache, and appending /etc/hosts like this:
127.0.0.1 newsite
I get the page that...
I find it interesting that lowercase I's (used as first-person, singular, personal pronouns) seem so unnatural in English, despite being so common in so many other languages.
i want learn linux file hierarchy , how this OS works at deeper level.
i'm looking for ebook or webpage to learn that?
What tools can I use to delete all the EXIF, IPTC, XMP, etc metadata from graphics files?
I am using Ubuntu and i would like to know the answer for this question:
How does one determine whether his/her APPLE IPOD's charge is full in Linux?
In windows it's easy since iTunes, shows the charge on the IPOD. But in Linux neither Rhytmbox nor gTKpod shows the battery charge available. A...
Is there a way to have bash automatically load shell scripts I create and place into /usr/bin?
Or is there a different place I should put custom shell scripts so that they are automatically loaded?
For example suppose I create a script called myscript with contents:
#!/bin/bash
alias e=echo
...
Hi,
I have this situation: My debian laptop is connected to the Internet via its wlan interface through my wireless router. And lately I decided to install freebsd on a very old machine (a celeron 300Mhz) which has only one ethernet interface.
I can't connect this desktop (celeron) to the rout...
Hi,
I would like to know how can I give permissions in sudoers such that each member of a group is able to kill the process owned by another member of the group.
Scenario: I have two users -- bill and dev-cron who are members of the group tech. I'd like bill to be able to kill processes started...
Hi,
I'm looking at tmux from screen, and have hit a bump while configuring the (highly configurable!) tmux key bindings.
Problem is, in my .screenrc i have
bindkey ^[[d prev
bindkey ^[[c next
bindkey ^[[a title
bindkey ^[[b screen 1
and the bindings work (they originally came from rxvt-tabbe...
I'm trying to start an application within Ubuntu (xfce or gnome) and via the
command line and was wondering if there's a generic way to set the dimensions of a
given window of a given app that is currently running?
Anatomy of the Linux Filesystem
I was a big fan of Frank Herbert's short stories and novels dealing with the consequences of humans gaining immortality. Usually there's an underclass of mortal people who live crappy lives like in Zardoz.
Does anyone know of any other works that feature humans gaining immortality?
For a few years now, it appears 'no one' ever mentions dselect for package management. Considering that it still exists as part of dpkg source, it must still have its uses. What are those? How does it compare with apt-get?
Once i tried to make a virtual host, and the problem was that if i make another file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ that says
...
DocumentRoot /var/www/newsite
ServerName newsite
...
Then save it, restart apache, and appending /etc/hosts like this:
127.0.0.1 newsite
I get the page that...
