I never knew that someone could take offense to a more specific instructions for a question because he/she felt that I was implying that he/she was not capable?
"It’s really hard to see what is actually going on with all these screenshots put in between the facts. The OP has 18k points here, it may just be possible he knows how to open a shell. "
"Incredible – how did the OP do that in such a short time? As to your answer: Even the command-line version contains the instructions to press the enter key. You got your upvote anyway."
@MathCubes: I see you absolutely and continually fail to see my point. That’s OK. Different people have different needs. — MPi17 hours ago
This method only works with Xorg
(Update from the original asker: It seems the changes made in an Xorg session persist after rebooting to a GNOME on Wayland session.)
Introduction
Basically, GNOME-Shell seem to be obtaining the abbreviations of the keyboard layouts from a configuration file ...
@MathCubes So I took a look. You're definitely right that we're aiming at beginner users too who may not know how to do everything, but I think you may have taken it a tad too far. There's probably no need for a screenshot showing them how to input text in a terminal or 2 screenshots on how to save.
Screenshots are great, but they do break up the text (and they tend to be gigantic as well). The trick is to get as much info into a single screenshot as possible so you can use less. E.g. The find and replace dialog could probably just be 1 screenshot with your text already in it.
@MathCubes That's fair. It's your answer and it's not like there are rules against too many screenshots are anything. You do practically have a screencast though :)
@RobotHumans I'm gonna disagree a little. Access is terrible when used the way MS wants you to use it (bound data controls, bound forms, etc). But, when used to it's potential as a desktop rdbms or as I use it every day as a front end to Sql Server, it's great. It also has a robust ide for vba code. I use it to program the other office programs. (Most people don't know how to design a db and I agree could just use excel for most purposes.)
Yeah, I'm not so big on vba. I'm more of a python on postgres sort of guy. If you need a database use a database. It's the same argument you hear against sqlite. For anything non-toy, you probably shouldn't be using it.
I don't disagree with any of that, but when your org is MS-only and makes it difficult to have dev tools installed, vba is a life saver. To be fair to MS, they've deprecated Access and want people to use the free version of sql server. Of course, they still push bound data controls rather than solid code to manipulate data.
That's fair. It's part of my argument against the shop I'm in now (Windows shop) that develops hardware solutions on a beaglebone, but doesn't use linux on the desktop. Pick one, so you're good at it. Don't cherry pick tiny pieces.
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In any case so far there's no update to the Firefox package with back-ported security fixes either.
@ViralParmar I recommend that you open a new question for it and include the full, verbatim output of the installation operation of the package manager.
@Rinzwind I don't doubt that it's possible to get Firefox 61 on Ubuntu and I'm sure I can set it up for myself with relative ease. However that leaves me concerned for other users who believe they are safe with the version that Canonical ships like they were in the past.
@ViralParmar You can always remove the package in question and reinstall the other package that provided the overwritten file in the past to restore it.
yes. and backups are what keeps me employed where I work ;=) Boss has the following attitude: mistakes are human but not having a backup when needed gets you unemployed
and I have seen at least 5 people in the past 20 years go just for not being able to fix a problem that would be easy to fix :P (I maintain google cloud instances for a living ;-) )
@DavidFoerster sure but it ALL starts getting used to making backups ;=)
@Rinzwind Sure, but a back-up that you haven't made (yet) isn't going to help you fix your hosed system installation now. I stand by my earlier claim: some problems are cumbersome enough to fix that a fix requires more effort than a reinstallation.
having a hosed system the 1st comment you will see from me is "restore a backup" ;-) and you get a stronger comment if you include "my data is important" :-P
@DavidFoerster Oh sure I can agree there ;-) a reinstall takes less then 18 minutes :D :D
my disk layout is also a bit different.
my home is in /discworld/ The whole / and /home are empty of personal data.
I want to set the date to "1990-??-??" on my PC, but when I reboot it, I see:
On Ubuntu 1604 the system date is "11 Feb 2016" but the RTC is "1990-??-??".
On Ubuntu 1404 both of them are "1 Jan 2014".
Is this Ubuntu bug?
I use the following commands to do that:
# timedatectl set-ntp...
I am using this command in Dockerfile
RUN rm -rf /src
RUN ln -sf /builds/code /src
But everytime it creates /src directory but if i execute same command in running container then it creates symlink
I am trying to post a new question. However, when I click on "ask question" I see the previous question that I posted auto populated into the title, text, and tag fields. I want to still keep that previous question active. If I overwrite my new question with my old question, will that overwrit...
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 and if I issue:
cat /proc/mounts
I don't see barrier=1 next to my main filesystem (under LVM). Does this mean barriers are not enabled? I read that while there were issues with this some time ago, now barriers are compatible with LVM.
If they are not enabled, how can I enab...
If you want to preserve anything you make yourself, it has to have at least one of the following ingredients:
Salt
Refined sugar
Alcohol
L-Ascorbic Acid (You can buy that here in small batches at a pharmacist, aka L-Vitamin C)
and:
it has to be heated above boiling point for at least one m...
Meh, That's how I make my apple sauce from the apples on the tree in the garden and it keeps 6 months with just a whiff of salt and a whiff of refined sugar.
My mushrooms in olive oil keep a few years and the fruit in 200 proof alcohols keeps forever.
This method only works with Xorg
(Update from the original asker: It seems the changes made in an Xorg session persist after rebooting to a GNOME on Wayland session.)
Introduction
Basically, GNOME-Shell seem to be obtaining the abbreviations of the keyboard layouts from a configuration file ...
I want to set the date to "1990-??-??" on my PC, but when I reboot it, I see:
On Ubuntu 1604 the system date is "11 Feb 2016" but the RTC is "1990-??-??".
On Ubuntu 1404 both of them are "1 Jan 2014".
Is this Ubuntu bug?
I use the following commands to do that:
# timedatectl set-ntp...
I am using this command in Dockerfile
RUN rm -rf /src
RUN ln -sf /builds/code /src
But everytime it creates /src directory but if i execute same command in running container then it creates symlink
I am trying to post a new question. However, when I click on "ask question" I see the previous question that I posted auto populated into the title, text, and tag fields. I want to still keep that previous question active. If I overwrite my new question with my old question, will that overwrit...
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 and if I issue:
cat /proc/mounts
I don't see barrier=1 next to my main filesystem (under LVM). Does this mean barriers are not enabled? I read that while there were issues with this some time ago, now barriers are compatible with LVM.
If they are not enabled, how can I enab...
If you want to preserve anything you make yourself, it has to have at least one of the following ingredients:
Salt
Refined sugar
Alcohol
L-Ascorbic Acid (You can buy that here in small batches at a pharmacist, aka L-Vitamin C)
and:
it has to be heated above boiling point for at least one m...
