I have been using w3m for a couple of weeks and am convinced it is my preferred text browser - with one ecception. Is there any way to yank URLs to the clipboard without using the mouse? I have looked through the manual and, using the default keybindings, there doesn't appear to be any document...

The question's title says it all. Scenario: The Postfix server is used only for mail-relay; in the office back-end, we use hMailServer. Some hMailServer users have their emails auto-forwarded to their BlackBerry account. Sometimes, they changed their BlackBerry operator without informing IT Dept...

I think there is no iptables/pf solution to only allow an XY application on e.g.: outbound tcp port 80, eth0. So if I have a userid: "500" then how could I block any other communications then the mentioned on port 80/outbound/tcp/eth0? (e.g.: just privoxy is using port 80 on eth0) Extra: virtual...

Where could I set the username/password if the HTTP/HTTPS proxy requires it? Is Firefox securely storing the username/password?

For some reason, today, everytime I hit tab in the terminal this shows up: cat bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_CA) Display all 150 possibilities? (y or n) This particular one happens when I type cat then hit TAB. I never changed any setting or anything. Anyone kno...

Any ideas for making an OpenBSD usable (how to turn off logs, "put os into memory"?) on a SDHC or an microSDHC card? Since full-disk encryption is not really a solution under OpenBSD so I though I would be more keen on physical protection, so I will install/use my "desktop os" on an SDHC or a mic...

I have a certain Linux executable that is called from a bigger application to perform some calculations. I want to modify the way the calculations are performed, for that I first need to understand how the executable is called and in what way the parameters and data are transferred. So, I'd like...

I have an executable script test under the full path /home/sawa/foo/bar/test. The directory /home/sawa/foo/bar is within $PATH, and has priority over the default ones including /usr/bin. When I do `which test` to see whether this command is correctly recognized, it returns /home/sawa/foo/bar/...

I'm using Xubuntu. Before login I can choose a keyboard layout. I'm using xmodmap for remmaping some keys. I'm interested in two things: How the state of keyboard mapping changes when I turn the laptop on, during the boot process and login to the system (in these three phases) and when workin...

In most cases, I want to use tabstop=4 while editing files. But for some types of file, like xml file, I want to use tabstop=2. I added au filetypedetect FileType xml,html,xhtml,javascript set tabstop=2 softtabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 in my .vimrc file. It works if I am editing only one file. B...

I am using cppcheck tool to analyze source code. At the shell prompt in gcc compiler, I have given the command as follows $ cppcheck abc.cpp The output is checking abc.cpp... (error) Possible null pointer dereference: <var> - otherwise it is redundant to check if <var>...

Is it possible to install and use two different glibc versions on the same machine. Where one version is only used to run legacy software, which relies on old glibc binaries? Is it possible to do that with the aid of the package manager (something like "install this package into and the dependen...

I want to search and replace some text in a large set of files excluding some instances. I want a command line alert asking me if i need to replace that line or not. Something similar to vim's :%s/from/to/g*c* But across a set of folders. Is there some good command line tool or script that can be...

When I call the command: $ xpdf file.pdf -z width -fullscreen ...it does not have the desired effect. The individual options: $ xpdf file.pdf -z width ...and: $ xpdf file.pdf -fullscreen ...work as expected. Is it possible to achieve the desired effect in xpdf?

I tried editing the menu.lst file in order to dual-boot with Windows 7. I simply uncommented the Windows entry and added map (hd0) (hd1) man (hd1) (hd0) according to the Arch Linux wiki. I rebooted and had a Grub menu with 3 options: Arch Linux, Arch Linux Recovery, Windows 7. Exactly as it sh...

I have a Python application which opens a simple TCP socket to communicate with another Python application on a separate host. Sometimes the program will either error or I will directly kill it, and in either case the socket may be left open for some unknown time. The next time I go to run the p...

I recently realized we can use cat as much as dd, and it's actually faster than dd I know that dd was useful in dealing with tapes where block size actually mattered in correctness, not just performance. In these days, though, are there situations where dd can do something cat can't? (Here I wou...

I'm trying to copy-paste some text from vim. I'm doing y to enter visual mode, then y once I selected my block. It appears to copy the text into vim's clipboard, because p will paste it. But in another program (e.g. Chrome), right-click->paste doesn't paste the correct text. How do I copy text t...

If I can send audio to the output devices, then I can record the same audio as a wave. With filesystems, you can just setup a loopback filesystem and write binary data on a file instead of a device. My question is: Can I send the audio signal to a (for instance) WAV file instead of my audio devi...

I watched a video lecture today that introduced C and things like how to make a C program that will run in Linux. I followed the steps given and now I'm stuck with a bit of a problem. I created my C file (HelloWorld.c) and used the command gcc -o HelloWorld HelloWorld.c to compile the file, both...

I'm finding myself in a terminal more and more often these days as I learn to do certain types of things quicker or more conveniently. However, when it comes to copying a large amount of data (i.e. hundreds of gigabytes) from one HDD to another, I always revert to the GUI (Nautilus or Finder in ...

I recently upgraded an openSUSE 11.3 install to 11.4 by downloading the DVD, burning it, & chosing the upgrade option upon booting to it. I used all the upgrade defaults. Upon coming back up, I added the FreeNX zypper repository & installed the latest FreeNX. Connecting via FreeNX works, ...

Dear all, I was wondering where the trampoline code went. It is referenced here, and I could find some code in an earlier distro, but I can't find it in the 2.6.38 kernel. Can you explain to me the path of execution, if trampoline.S is not there anymore? Thanks.

Hi guys. When ever I log into my machine (Lenovo Laptop) Ubuntu (Natty running Unity) ask for the keyring password several times (4-5) why does it do that and how can I make it stop? Thanks Yotam

I've got a usb pen drive that miraculously I installed grub4dos, and it works, I can start some iso's like MSDart, etc. I've decided put Tiny Core Linux in the usb stick, then I downloaded the latest iso from tinycore website, xcopy the .iso to usb stick and.. it doesn't works... I think that I...

Is there a way to shebang-ify ftp and write small ftp scripts? For example: #!/usr/bin/ftp open 192.168.1.1 put *.gz quit Any thoughts?