I'm working with graphic design. I've downloaded many files (EPS files, PSD files, etc) from various websites. Because it come from various websites, after downloaded from more than 10 different websites, I got many same files with same size, and same everything but different file name (2 to 4 c...

Is it possible to install Cinnamon on Debian unstable? There is no packages for Debian on their official download page, and when i tried to add PPA to my repositories list, it won't install because of lacking dependencies.

How to install the latest Firefox build (called Aurora) on Debian unstable? Are there any packages or repositories?

I have two following linux shell commands: echo 'CPU type and model' cat /proc/cpuinfo | head -5 | tail -1 When i run these commands directly in Terminal, i get this result truly: CPU type and model model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 330 @ 2.13GHz But when i save them into a te...

Having TLS certificate in local file, I can display it's details using syntax like: openssl x509 -text -noout -in cert_filename Is there any way to display remote SMTP/POP3/HTTP server's TLS certificate in this same format in bash terminal ?

I am trying to copy a file from one machine to another machine via ssh. Both machines are Ubuntu servers. Both machines have exchaged keys so that they can log into each other without passwords. The command I have looks like this (details changed for privacy, of course): scp -i /var/www/place/....

Is there anyone that know how to bind a key that spawns (via the exec command) six terminal windows? I manage to figure out how to do this, but all windows was on one row. What I would like to have is that 3 on top and 3 on bottom. Like this, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | | ...

I have a script that runs regulary via cron, that creates a tar.gz file for the purpose of backing up a directory. For reasons beyong my control, the only user who can execute the script via cron is a root user. So the resulting tar file can not be moved or deleted by any other user. So, as par...

HiAll,Actually everytime after restarting the servers, I have to run xhost +from console prompt. Does anyone have any idea about enabling xhost+ from inittab file? Thank you in advancePaul

Do you know a knotes-like program that does not require the whole KDE stuff?

I have the following directory structure: . ├── event-a │   ├── album-a │   │   ├── a.jpg │   │   └── x.png │   └── album-b │   ├── a.jpg │   ├── x.png │   └── y.gif └── event-b ├── album-x │   ├── a.jpg │   └── x.png └── album-y ├── a.jpg ├── x.png ...

I created a Debian VM on VirtualBox with two interfaces: a NAT one (for accessing internet) and a host-only one. However, I do not know how to make both interfaces work at the same time. If I the define the host-only as the adapter 1, I can access my VM from the host but not the internet; if I de...

for the variable dbnya="echo $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)" When running below code, I will get an error (SQL syntax error) mysql -u root -pthepass -e "CREATE DATABASE demo$dbnya CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin" The second command will work if I'm using dbnya=20120423230524 as first command

If I nano two files, one of which reads 'this' without me entering a newline, and one of which reads 'is' without me entering a newline, I want to be able to then cat the two files together into something like 'thisis'. Instead, the newlines are inserted automatically. alec@ROOROO:~/$ cat test1...

I have two HP-UX machines say A and B with HP-UX 11.11 and 11.31 respectively. I'have compiled gvim 7.3 from source an B, and gvim 7.0 on A. On A, gvim uses "version with GTK GUI", Compilation with gcc (...) -DFEAT_GUI_GTK and all works fine. On B, gvim looks different and uses "version with X1...

I've come across an interesting problem that I have not yet been able to solve satisfyingly. Consider a note taking command that takes two arguments: note $project $note That simply files the content of $note under a project according to the first parameter. Now I have two projects where I...

Suppose you have a multipart rar file, say file.part1.rar, file.part2.rar, file.part3.rar. I know that I can extract only the first parts using for example unrar e -kb file.part1.rar However assume that I have only file.part3.rar and not part 1 and 2. Is then there a way to extract the conte...

I just learned about a fork bomb, an interesting type of a denial of service attack. Wikipedia (and a few other places) suggest using :(){ :|:& };: on UNIX machines to fork the process an infine number of times. However, it doesn't seem to work on Mac OS X Lion (I remember reading that the mo...

Vim scripts sometimes resize the whole shell (in my case the Taglist plugin). I don't want this behavior, which is possible with the shell command resize, too. Is there a way to suppress the whole resizing in shell windows? Any .*rc files to tune? I'm using gnome-terminal.

It took me hours to solve this SSH problem with one of my class accounts on my school's servers. I couldn't ssh into one particular class account without entering my password, while passwordless authentication worked with my other class accounts. The .ssh/ directory and all of its contents had...

I have the following on my /etc/fuse.conf file: # Set the maximum number of FUSE mounts allowed to non-root users. # The default is 1000. # ...

Background: I haven't done anything with iptables in a few years... I have Fedora 16 running in a VM on VMWare, with my firewall (TomatoUSB) port forwarding to the VM. VM is at 192.168.1.155. I know that the packets are making it to the VM... Based on this illustration to see how the packets ar...