Really? Why can't I report a bug on meta?...the site where bugs/feedback BELONG.
I'm preparing a bug report & you are hindering my efforts...I have screenshots & everything!
You are FORCING me to post this useless spam on this site, instead of putting a GOOD bug report where it belongs. Why? I ...
It is good when people show their gratitude accepting answers. But how to deal with those who want to overgive their thankfulness and start upvoting the helper person's answers in despite of favor to them personally?
I know that serial up-voting rolls back, even with damage to reputation… That's...
Friends, I am doing NFS share in shell scripts. Installing, creating a directory and export this directory into /etc/exports file.
I did command line argument in the script so execute like this only
./nfsshare.sh --nfs-path test1 --write true
Here true means rw mode
False means ro mode
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I have win 8.1 and Ubuntu 13.10 installed, both are working fine but.. When coming from win-8 and rebooting the PC I will get an "Error: no boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed".
I then have to go in to BIOS and change the start sequence to "Ubuntu" and it will stay that way until ...
@AvinashRaj It's also not a mystery how it works. Anybody who's been listening for longer than ten minutes knows ~ means $HOME and that moving something to /dev/null will nuke it. You might as well ask what sudo rm -rf / does (edit: that was sarcasm, please don't)
@Rinzwind Doesn't Win8 have that dodgy quickboot thing where it does a quasi-hibernate to boot up things faster? I seem to remember seeing something about disabling that in dual boots but I've no actual experience with it.
@AvinashRaj That's a question worth asking. (You could even add something about moving things to /dev/null and what that does - just stop short of the possibility of somebody wiping out their life's work)
They both seem to be more about redirecting (their answers cover it but their questions don't quite)
While i trying to move a test_dir directory to /dev/null, it says
mv: cannot overwrite non-directory ‘/dev/null’ with directory ‘test_dir/’
Then why people says "don't run this command sudo mv ~ /dev/null, it will moves your home directory to a hole?
But /home is also a directory.
Installing a new system using a GPT partitioned disk dedicated to a single partition, ext4 formatted, extlinux (version 4.05) as bootloader, Ubuntu Core version 13.10 amd64 as rootfs, and Ubuntu linux-image-3.11.0-18-generic as kernel, and extlinux-update to generate bootloader configuration.
Th...
If I do: touch file; mv file /dev/null as root, /dev/null disappears. ls -lad /dev/null results in no such file or directory. This breaks applications which depend on /dev/null like SSH and can be resolved by doing mknod /dev/null c 1 3; chmod 666 /dev/null. Why does moving a regular file to t...
balance is perhaps not what you will get here. I havent found anywhere where there is a sound "mint is better than ubuntu" argument. Horses for courses - what you do and how you do it dictates what operating system you should use.
@Doorknob I've just never found a reason not to. Everything that I need works and everything that doesn't, I know where to find the people I need to torture in order to get it working again. Oh and it means I get to ask questions on Ask Ubuntu. That's a pretty serious advantage :P
Hmm. @foss So, what do you think is the main difference between them? What is Ubuntu made for, and what is Mint for? @Oli But isn't that a valid argument for Mint too?
These days the difference seems to be a desktop holy war... I'm a bit removed from that already, being a Kubuntu user.
@Doorknob Maybe... Perhaps it's the difference between a tender pork chop and delicious (but mysterious) processed salami. Ubuntu has the infrastructure, the community, the people. Mint takes that and does a few things differently. If those are things I needed, I'd probably be a Mint user but they aren't. Most of my Ubuntu installs are server installs.
Not being a Mint user I'm not sure I'm the best person to ask about the advantages of Mint or what Mint is for. What would you say Mint brings that Ubuntu doesn't?
@Doorknob I've never used Mint and never had to investigate too much. I perhaps just perceive Mint as another desktop environment with enough tweaks and tucks to make it distinctive enough to warrant any Q&A here mostly in the questionable category because we have no real knowledge as to what the hell they have changed and why.
@Doorknob These are desktop traits. I'm a KDE user. You can't talk to me about "customizabilty" (if that's even a word). KDE/KWIN performance is pretty decent too.
Alright, well thanks for the detailed responses, everyone! I'm going to have to do some more investigation before I decide. Again, thanks for responding :-)
Also look at the upgrade path from one mint version to another - as far as I understand, the supported route is a fresh install each time - so you will need to be prepared to do that regularly.
^^^ too vague IMHO - I dont see the need. If you were going to ask a question - wouldnt it be about a specific O/S rather than some bland general question?
Ubuntu is more stable than Mint (as in longivitty) I do not know who is behind Mint, I do know who is behind Ubuntu. For all I know Mint is discontinued next week. I can not afford to run servers on a non-official OS
Were you not in here yesterday afternoon? We had Terdon doing real French, jokerdino doing bad French, every single brand of compose-key nonsense under the sun... It was like a Friday afternoon but at the beginning of the week. Madness.
brb, need to feed the chickens (no, not a euphemism)
@MinatoNamikaze fuser shows me 98 process-ids that lock a file... I need to the pts to check if that process is logged in (and not a lock due to a crashed client that is still active on the server)
@terdon That's a good looking word. Struggling to pronounce it in a non-French way though. "ffew-metz" sounds much weirder than "fumay", any idea where it comes from?
When I try to run command in ubuntu I get the garbage characters appear on command line.
Please look at the image the line of characters are repetation [[-^ repeating it many times. How do I fix this problem?
@Rinzwind fine, it's the off topic that bugs me. Even if the OP were using an older release, this is certainly not a release-specific issue. It seems strange to close it.
As has been suggested in many other similar threads, Pencil offers you a nice framework for prototyping and wireframing (even web stuff). And it's free.
I realise you've already said this isn't the answer you're looking for (having been linked to my question on the topic) but my scope is web ...
I wonder if we scraped around we could buy @Seth a real computer rather than have him dodder around on his Tablet of Doom that he's been sin-binning everybody with :)