I've got a bunch of laptops for my classroom and I'm using Ubuntu. I want to be able to add/update/remove software across them as easily as possible and I'm not sure how to go about it.
I was thinking of editing the /etc/profile file on each machine to curl pipe sh a script that I would host on...
So I when I run this code on my mac there are no errors, and it provides me the perfect output. But when I run it on Ubuntu or CentOS i get the following error
integer expression expected
an input file,
#!/bin/bash
if [ -f $1 ] ;
then
sum=0
echo "#Name Surname Weapon...
@Rinzwind ?, I was watching a show when suddenly the video froze. Nothing I did had any effect on the screen so I restarted and then some text quickly flashed on the screen (somthing about "failed") and there was just a black screen with a blinking cursor
I managed to get into safe mode but couldn't fix it
After going through this post How to install Ubuntu in a netbook, but keeping the original win7 installation in storage I want to install the Operating System on Virtual storage and i dont know how to install it .
Windows 7 Dual Boot + Virtualization under Ubuntu 10.04? doesn't help me because t...
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a computer that has Windows 8.1 preinstalled, following the next link
http://itsfoss.com/install-ubuntu-1404-dual-boot-mode-windows-8-81-uefi/
Now I can not dual boot. This are the options that my GRUB shows.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu advanced mode
Windows Boot Manager (on /de...
I am trying to understand what does %CPU means when I run top.
I am seeing %CPU for my application as 400 or 500 most of the times.
Does anyone knows what does this mean?
What number is high number?
19080 david 20 0 27.9g 24g 12m S 400 19.7 382:31.81 paper_client
@Rinzwind I have to occasionally remind myself that I don't want a cigarette... But it's not a craving, it's just a situational thing. I still like the smell of cigarettes.
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I want to know if ThinkWiki TLP (a tool to improve laptop battery life on Linux systems) has some disadvanges or it is all advantages. Could it happen that the computer breaks earlier, or something like that, maybe because the fan does not work as well as without TLP t...
In many situations I have found questions that are duplicate of other questions. The first thing is to flag them as duplicates.
In some situations, I find a 'duplicate of' comment already from another user, in such a case there are two possibles:
Upvote the 'duplicate of' comment
Flag the ques...
I have been running dual boot windows7/ubuntu. Recently I tried to reinstall windows 7, but I no longer have the option to boot to ubuntu. I followed instructions on how to get it back, but none of them seemed to help. Eventually I tried boot-repair and that still did not help. It gave me the fil...
So I came across a question where the OP was trying to upgrade from an EOL release. Under normal circumstances, any (new) questions about an EOL release should be closed, but what about someone trying to get off of an EOL release by upgrading?
There's a page in the Ubuntu wiki about upgrading fr...
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a computer that has Windows 8.1 preinstalled, following the next link
http://itsfoss.com/install-ubuntu-1404-dual-boot-mode-windows-8-81-uefi/
This are the options that my GRUB shows.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu advanced mode
Windows Boot Manager (on /dev/sda2)
System...
I borrowed a wifi modem from a friend - buffalo airstation g54 .
I don't know anything about the installation, I just would like to use the wifi.
I don't have an installation cd.
I have found some guides on the web, but all of them are for windows machines.
I am on Linux - Ubuntu.
Could you pleas...
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 (64bit). Long story short, I've compiled a custom kernel and now I'm running into some issues with my encrypted hard drive.
When I boot my machine and attempt to start the new kernel, it starts loading and reports:
Reading all physical volumes, this may take a while ......
As far as I know if a question will be closed and in the same time someone write an answer, then a message will appear to that person telling him that he can't answer anymore and everything what he wrote was in vain.
But (now I see first time) it seems that things are not really so:
I have 2 hard drives 3TB each. The first of these drives is full with very important content. I have encrypted the second 3TB drive using the following technique:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_g-W6hrkNA
and have copied the files from the non encrypted first drive to the encrypted second d...