Hi all, i have last ubuntu installed (10.10), but from an year and thousand updates, video drivers updates, an hundreds of tricks, the mouse pointer is showed like an UGLY square... These are the screenshots: http: // www.albertopasca.it/temp/ubuntu_mouse_1.jpg http: // www.albertopasca.it/t...

I have made Ubuntu my primary OS since 10.04, and I have converted many of my friends and neighbors into Ubuntu users since then. I am the fix-it guy they approach when they encounter problems. The most frantic calls I get are when they encounter an "update-induced kernel panic." What are the st...

The vote-up arrow appears cropped. I looked at the sprite image, and it's fine there, so some css trick is chopping it.

It seems the buttons have a strange color that doesn't match anything else on the site.

I am looking for a minimal mail solution (MTA) for a headless server which generate e-mails for local users and and fully qualified addresses from cron-jobs, etc. Ideally all mails to local user foo should be mapped to foo@mydomain, with possible modifications for uid<1024, and sent off to an ...

G'Day, I am using rsync to recursively sync a remote folder tree that looks something like the following: /folderA/a1/cache /folderA/a1/cache/A1 /folderA/a1/cache/A2 /folderA/a1/somefolder /folderA/a1/someotherfolder /folderA/a2/somefolder/cache /folderB/cache/ /folderB/b1/somefolder/cache /fol...

It would be extra nice to lower-case the /Questions, /Tags, /Users, ... text, just to fit in with the Unix philosophy (/etc, /usr, /home, ...). I'm even thinking that /Ask Question should be something like /ask_question, so that the shell won't complain :)

In case of one program having multiple instances, running pidof program gives: `1 2 3` top -p accepts comma-delimited arguments: 1, 2, 3. This means that top -p `pidof program` won't work: top: unknown argument '1' usage: top -hv | -bcisSH -d delay -n iterations [-u user | -U user] -p p...

It's hard to spot a link inside code elements. (There are two links in this question, can you find them? :)

Running top -p $(pidof init) and top -p `pidof init` gives the same output. Are these two ways of doing one thing, or are there differences?

I have a linux web & samba server. I need to give administrators access to manage minor accounts & groups. Is there a secure php web interface that can do this? I don't want to give them shell access, but they need to be able to change passwords, create, & manage accounts\groups. Than...

I have some command which produces output with no new line at the end, like this Myprompt$ somecmd dksfjdl dsfjdlkfj dsfjdkfj dfjdkfjMyprompt$ Currently I overcome this by somecmd | sed 's/$/\n/' | tr -s '\n' Is there a better way to do this?

It would be extra nice if UNIX & LINUX on the title would be Unix & Linux. Would be even nicer if the nix part of Unix was done in small caps (as Wikipedia says): Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with small caps)

I want to monitor memory usage of a process, and I want this data to be logged. Short of writing my own code, does such a tool exist?

I've noticed that clicking on some tags takes me to a page that claims that 0 questions tagged exists. One example: memory.

Hi All, I have a target and host setup with Linux as the OS on both. I have a root file system(RFS) in my target. I have a setup in which my RFS is in development state so it will undergo changes on the fly. My requirement is that, every time I make a change, I need to sync my current RFS to...

I just know that Interrupt is a hardware signal assertion caused in a processor pin. But I would like to know how Linux OS handles it. What all are the things that happen when an interrupt occurs?

pacman stopped working and asked me to delete a file if "another package manager isn't working". What is the file for deleting files?

I was wondering how the "GUI" of a command line application is communicated over a network. Most of the time, it's quite simple (plain text / input) but sometimes it's more complex (aptitude). Is it defined by some sort of standard so that anyone can write their own terminal and that all termin...

Is it possible to use ssh-copy-id once password based logins are disabled? Otherwise, is there an utility for adding an authorized public key to a user or should I edit the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file manually?

/var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog, and some other log files use a timestamp which contains an absolute time, like Jan 13 14:13:10. /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/dmesg, as well as the output of $ dmesg, use a format that looks like [50595.991610] malkovich: malkovich malkovich malkovich malk...

Having a system for collecting performance statistics can be extremely useful. In the past, I've used Munin for this, and it has been invaluable in analyzing bottlenecks and various other issues. I was recently made aware of collectd, which seems very similar to Munin. What are the major differe...

I find the question title font too thin, on question pages and to some extent on the /questions as well. The titles don't stand out enough to my tastes. The same font is used on CSTheory. I find it less objectionable there thanks to the monochrome background. (If the font choice depends on my b...

On Meta, the “How to Ask” and other rectangular widgets on the right of the screen that appear when you ask a question are very dark islands in an almost-white page. I don't like it, but it may just be a matter of personal preference. On the main site, I would really like better contrast between...

After a few minutes, I've come to strongly dislike the dots on the background. Why not just a pure white? (If it's just me, I suppose it's easily fixed in my user CSS.)

The man page doesn't give me much hope, but I'm hope it's an undocumented (and/or GNU-specific) feature.