I am running slacko puppy v5.3.1 and am trying to use my wifi dongle with it. I have a windows .inf file for the driver for my usb dongle. I used the puppy network wizard to load the driver using ndiswrapper and all seemed to be going well... this was until I try to configure my wireless netw...

I want to swap the Ctrl and Caps Lock keys on my keyboard. I go to System Settings -> Keyboard -> Layout Settings -> Options and check Swap Ctrl and Caps Lock under Ctrl Key Position. I check that my keyboard ( English US) has the new key bindings. However, when I exit settings, the ke...

Disclaimer: I've never used FreeNAS or any type of RAID before, so this is a first. I've decided to build a media server in my new apartment. I'm going to be going with a total 10TB of space (5x2TB discs in a RAID 5, unless I get recommendations to use another RAID). I've also decided to go with...

Recently I had a SD card destroyed ( software wise ) on me. Basically as well as I can figure it out, all the metadata was wiped (ext4 card). This happened when I was working and suddenly had to write a check. I yanked the card I was working on, put in my "accounting card" wrote the checks, scann...

Here is a sed command. I want to substitute third occurrence of 00 to 11 echo "0000000000000000" | sed -e 's/00/11/3' The output is: 0000110000000000 But I thought output would be: 0011000000000000 first occurrence of 00: {00}00000000000000 second one: 0{00}0000000000000 and third ...

When is the right time to mount /tmp (on Debian)? For /home I would not feel bad just to echo "/dev/foo type /home defaults 0 0" >/etc/fstab (or even better >>/etc/fstab) - but can I be sure that /tmp is not used by any programs when the fstab is applied? Thank you folks! I am usin...

I know I can use qemu-img tool to convert a raw partition into a image file. But Windows 7 has two partitions. I tried: qemu-img convert /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 win7.qcow2 But the generated file does not have the correct partition infomation, thus cannot work. I also tried converting only the Syst...

For backup MySQL MyISAM database, I'm using: backupdb=siteone mysqldump -u root -pthepass --lock-tables --add-locks --disable-keys --skip-extended-insert --quick $backupdb > /var/www/html/db2.sql Even after long time using it, I still dont know what is the name of using nameofmychoice=anyna...

I'm using latexmk -pdf -pvc to keep compiling my LaTeX files to PDFs while they are displayed in evince. I'm doing that a lot with different files and I keep needing to zoom the PDF content, resize the window and enable "always on top". I like to be able to do this automatically using the command...

I'm using linux mint debian edition and I have set firefox as my default browser in my settings. But http links in other apps like hotot and pidgin open with chromium! why is this happening is there any way to track the problem?

Is it possible to test effective permissions of a file for a specific user? I normally do this by su user and then accessing the file, but I now want to test this on an user with no shell (i.e. a System user)

Here is my sed command: echo -e "AB\nCD\nEF\nGH" | sed 'N; D;' It prints: GH while sed processing input line by line, what happens with the last line? (When after that sed saw End-Of-File)? I mean the pattern buffer only contains 1 line.

I have installed fedora16 recently. I don't like the Gnome3 that my fedora got shipped with. I want to downgrade it to Gnome2 as i haven't used any other desktop environment before. Any knowledge about how to do it ?

I have Ubuntu installed on a (originally just Windows) machine using wubi. What are the chances of going something horribly wrong if I were to: create a new partition Install Ubuntu 11.10 on it using a CD format the partitions with Windows and wubi on them. Will this successfully make Ubuntu ...

I recently installed a new SSL certificate and then also decided to tighten security a bit by make the private key less readable. This caused a problem with exim. The certificate is now 640 with user root and group ssl. The user Debian-exim is in this group. I can access the private key file j...

How can I run a gnome applet from command line for once in FreeBSD 9?

I've been extremely annoyed with this issue for a while. I'm using TeXMaker on KDE to write my class notes in LaTeX and I sometimes need to copy paste text from it to some other applications while editing, the flashcard program Anki being one of them. TeXMaker uses syntax highlighting and for so...

I am contemplating using mpg123 as an audiobook player. I can't find any other good audiobook players for Linux, and I think mpg123 may be my best option. My audiobooks are organized by directories and the track names are numbered (e.g., Track-01.mp3, Track-02.mp3, etc.). What I am seeking is ...

I want to create account for my friend in my computer, but i don't want them to be able to view all my file. I saw that with OpenSSH, there is an option for that. Inside: /etc/ssh/sshd_config With that line: ChrootDirectory /home/%u But root need to chown the user I. Is it a bad thing? Any c...

I have a fully encrypted server running Debian 6 and have set up dropbear and busybox to unlock the LUKS container via SSH (as described in this tutorial and in this U&L answer). Unfortunately, whenever I try and SSH to the server (over the LAN) at reboot, I get a "Connection refused" error....

Is there an application that will do what Threadscope or the parallel tools of Visual Studio does for multithreaded program analysis in Linux?