i want to let some of my friend access my computer by making them account. They will mostly accesds my computer by sftp and ssh, but they could also access it at my home sometime. But i don't want them to be able to see all my file (not my personnal file from my home, i mean file from outside use...

My system kernel is kernel 3.2.12, with Xen related features enabled. This is my /boot/grub/grub.conf: title Gentoo x64 kernel-3.2.12-gentoo-xen root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/xen.gz iommu=1 module /boot/kernel-3.2.12-gentoo root=/dev/sda1 module /boot/initramfs.gz According to my understanding I ...

All, Mac based mdls command outputs the Pixel Height/Width and other relevant metadata info for a video. For eg. mdls test.mov kMDItemPixelHeight = 270 kMDItemPixelWidth = 480 Since a video can be viewed in either landscape or portrait mode on an iPhone, are these dimen...

I am trying to secure my Dropbox account by using EncFS. My strategy is as follows: I store all my files in a folder called ~/Public/. The encrypted counterpart of ~/Public/ is ~/Private/. Use EncFS: encfs ~/Private/ ~/Public/ Now the problem is that I'd like to use Dropbox for backing up my ...

My CPU is Intel T9300, it supports VT-x, but it does not support VT-d. I am using Xen pvops virtualization. I have a PCI device, and my host system can work without it. So I am thinking if it is possible to pass it to my guest vm.

After creating GUI for Unix, I would like to port it now to Windows for better and wider program development. How will I be able to do that?

I want to create a multi-chat UDP that can run in UNIX or Mac OSX systems. Can you provide me an advice on how it can be done? Or at least an overview of my goals and what I are the pros and cons of my goals. Thanks in advance.

I'm struggling to make the cursor in bash stop blinking. Also, the cursor in Iceweasel has started blinking again, but, for some reason, a lot slower than in bash :) I got those problems since I upgraded to sid, so probably some configuration files were overwritten. I tried everything in How to ...

I have been struggling with this issue for a while and have done an exhaustive search for answers here and elsewhere before posting this question. On my Asus X101H, the touchpad is not recognized as a touchpad. I have noticed that this problem does not only occur with my netbook, or Asus netbook...

I often need to print the current date in lots of different programs. Right now, I always type it per hand which is error prone. I'm using KDE 4.8, and it has customisable keyboard shortcuts. For example, it is possible to create keyboard shortcuts that print out a predefined string. But is it so...

I have a linux server and have a proxy server on another machine. My linux server needs connect to port 'x' on ip 'y' Is it possible to create iptables rule or another way to: when my linux server tries to connect to port 'x' on ip 'y' uses my proxy server on another machine? In other words, I...

I would like to know which are the standard commands available in every Linux system. For example if you get a debian/ubuntu/redhat/suse/arch/slackware etc, you will always find there commands like: cd, mkdir, ls, echo, grep, sed, awk, ping etc. I know that some of the mentioned commands are s...

I'm using Lubuntu 11.10. The only problem I have that the mouse double click speed is a bit high (it seems to me that it is around 100-200ms) and I would like it to set it to around 500ms. Is there a way to do it? I tried using Openbox Configuration Manager but that only changes the double click ...

What is the difference between the following methods of chaining commands? cmd1; cmd2 cmd1 && cmd2

When I work in vim, it happens (often) that it freezes for a second or two... after that it comes back to a normal life, executing all what I have typed when it was frozen I saw this behavior on two different machines with Ubuntu, one after a fresh installation. No additional plugins nor fancy c...

I'm trying to activate the wireless chipset on my Debian Squeeze laptop by following this tutorial. I detected the type of wireless chipset I have built in my laptop using lspci and now I am trying to install this driver by following the instructions on the page. I installed the firmware-brcm80...

I'm looking to install Linux on my Macbook Pro in a Dual Boot config. I've previously asked this question in a different fashion here: Dual Boot Fedora 16 with OS X rEFIt. However, it didn't really get much attention and seems to have fallen of the radar. I'd like to ask the question again, but ...

Diary has entries with month and day, no years, in the format %D_%M.tex but messing up with sorting, perhaps poor format? The days are not in right order. How should I call my Diary -entries to get them sortable by sort -command (from old to new or the reverse)? STOP here if you know sorting -- ...