A) Existing infrastructure has a shared printer running on a windows machine. B) It may be upgraded to a real network tcp/ip based printer in the near future. How can I make it automatically keep a copy of whatever it is printing as a pdf? Maybe like use cups on a linux machine, which will...

I'm trying to permanently disable tapping and scrolling on my Synaptic touchpad. While I can do this with gpointing-device-settings, the settings are not kept. What file(s) do I need to edit to disable tapping and scrolling?

I created an LVM snapshot, then I modified the original logical volume, and now I see that I probably allocated too much space to hold the snapshot. And I want to reclaim some free space by reducing the space allocated for the snapshot. How can I check how much the space allocated for a snapshot...

I want to setup an apt priority in Linux Mint Debian Edition 2012.04 in /etc/apt/preferences in the order: LMDE -> Debian testing -> Debian unstable. In other words i almost always want to use packages from LMDE semi-rolling repository, and only sometimes get them from testing or unstable when i ...

I want to find the fastest Debian mirror to add it besides LMDE own repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list. When i run sudo netselect-apt testing to find the fastest Debian testing mirror, it successfully downloads http://www.debian.org/mirror/mirrors_full but then throws the following: netselect...

I have a Java .class file. Now I want to check it was compiled on a 32 bit machine or 64 bit machine ? I tried file command but it just says it is a compiled java class. Is there any way to find it?

I would like to make a utility that always enables the --color argument for the grep command in any distribution. Is there a way to do this or do I have to search for a way for each distribution?

Differentiate the following into slow and fast system calls, and tell why briefly. Assume the I/O model is blocking mode: socket, connect, bind, accept, fork, close, read.

I have got a new server and have installed centos6. How do i configure it to become a Proxy Server?? Thanx

When I install my video camera's drivers with a command: modprobe usbserial vendor=... product=... it gets installed as "sg3" instead of sth like "ttyUSB0". Why?

I'm trying to setup Qubes OS (http://qubes-os.org/) on my desktop but struggling to get the network/internet working. This is the configuration i want to setup - ip - 192.168.1.2 Subnet - 255.255.255.0 Gateway - 192.168.1.1 DNS - 8.8.8.8 interface - eth0 i tried following with limited succes...

insert-last-argument is probably better known by its usual shortcut, Alt-.. It's very nice to navigate through the last argument of earlier commands, but if you're navigating a little too fast it's easy to miss the argument you wanted, and then it seems you have no other choice but to start all o...

I've recently reinstalled my Debian server but forgot to backup mysql databases which were in folder /var/lib/mysql. I need to recover them and tried to use PhotoRec but I can't find the mysql databases there. I have shutdown my server for the moment so it doesn't deteriorate the recovering proc...

About three months ago, a strange phenomenon started happening in our network. Firstly, let me describe the network layout (only the details which I think I'll be allowed to divulge): We have a router which establishes a VPN connection over the internet to our client's network. Checkpoint is ...

I would like to know how to install .tar.bz and .tar.bz2 packages on Debian, please give me a complete explanation.

gtkparasite is great for GTK2, but unfortunatelly it can't do GTK3 applications. Is there any alternative?

I want to delete files which size is between certain values. For example I have the following list of files: -rw-r--r-- 1 smsc sys 558 Apr 30 13:07 stats.sfe.1.20120430130513.xml.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 smsc sys 388 Apr 30 15:32 stats.sfe.1.20120430153013.xml.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 smsc sys 386 Apr 30 15:36 s...

I'm setting up a few ubuntu boxes, and using opscode's chef as a configuration tool. It would be fairly easy to install public keys for each user on each of these servers, and disable password authentication. However, the users should also have sudo privileges though, which by default requires a...

I use partimage to backup my ext4 partition , but during backup , the partition was detected as ext3 partition , so I'm wondering if this can cause something bad.

I am unable to properly use dead key characters ( ' " ^ ) on (k)ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 in arduino (a processing based application, at least version 0022 and 1.0). Can I disable dead keys for specific application or application window, or does anybody know another work around? 'Dead keys' is the...

Mutt depends on curses according to this here, my discussion with Michael: @hhh: ssh hhh@server.com mutt <--- what is wrong here? trying to run mutt there... @MichaelMrozek: mutt uses curses, which depends on a lot of terminal manipulation; I imagine it doesn't like being run within...

Im trying to use getopts and assign different out comes when the flag is passed. What I am doing is passing a -f flag and what i want to happen is the outcome either puts the command on the output ready for the user to hit enter, or makes the file run. I have put the option in a function called ...

I ran fdisk with these options, fdisk -H 32 -S 32 /dev/sdc Then I made a new label, and created an aligned first partition. Disk /dev/sdc: 7743 MB, 7743995904 bytes 32 heads, 32 sectors/track, 14770 cylinders, total 15124992 sectors However when I run, fdisk /dev/sdc My heads are reporte...

I have some flv and mp4 videos, which I need to convert to a format which is playable on an a Windows Vista system (for a presentation). The problem is, that I cannot test the videos on the system on the presentation. I guess that no additional codes are installed on the windows system. I am not ...

I am going to show an error window using zenity: /usr/bin/zenity --error --text="my error message" The error text to pass is obtained as output from another application. This output may contain quotes, backslashes and other special symbols which could prevent zenity to start correctly. /usr/b...

I'm running a test program which generates a large number of threads and asynchronous I/O. I'm seeing very high counts of these interrupts in /proc/interrupts, the program cannot scale beyond a certain point because CPUs are 100% saturated with softirq processing. According to: http://www.kernel...

I am trying to capture packets on a tun interface with libpcap. I am creating the interface with: openvpn --mktun --dev tun0 When the adapter is setup it appears as so when I run ifconfig: tun0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 POINTOPOI...

I don't quite understand how the computer reads this command. If I understand, 2>&1 simply redirect Standard Error to Standard Output. By that logic, the command reads to me as follows: concatenate files file1 and file2. send stdout from this operation to file.txt. send stderr to std...