I want to know why have two users, Thomas and Thomas Ward? is there a different people but username almost same?

I've been trying to dual boot my new laptop (Dell XPS 15 9560) with Windows and Ubuntu. I've done this process before on my Lenovo with no issues using the process outlined in this video so I tried to use the same process with my dell laptop. I first partitioned my hardrive by deallocating 30 G...

I've installed Debian stable 9.3 server for an Nginx server environment, and I want to upgrade it daily in cron with: 0 0 * * * apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade -y My system is minimal and uncustomized: It's a VPS to run a webserver with only these ports open: 22, 80, 443, 9000. My system...

I want to grant a group "usera" rwx permission to a directory. The directory is already owned by a user that belongs to this group "usera". The name of the username and group is same. Current Permissions: If I check the current permissions of that directory by running the following command: ls...

I recently bought x6 ASUS 24inch monitors for my battle station and I’m having a tad bit of an issue setting up the MST Hub to get the extra 3 working. I’m entirely new to xorg configurations, and i have a unique case here, any help would be much appreciated. In ubuntu 16.04 with AMD GPU Pro dri...

Whenever I reboot my laptop, everything runs amazingly and I have a maximum of 40% memory usage (out of 8GB). However over time (~ 1 day of usage), memory usage goes up to 90%+, and the system starts swapping. Right now, free -mh returns this: total used free sh...

I have moved to a new server and was given a /29 IP block with it. I have never had more than one IP per server, so I am having a little trouble getting things sorted out and was wondering if I could get some help/advice. Here is what I have assigned to me. IP Block -> xxx.xxx.xxx.16/29 Subnet ->...

I use Xubuntu 16.0.4 with encryption on the whole disk. My PC has some problem with restoring from suspend and bios have to be reloaded - I did it successfully. Now I want to turn the Xubuntu system again and I see the following message: starting version 232 Error: resume hibernation device `/d...

I'm trying to get the current fan speed of our Ubuntu 14.04 Server. The fans are extremely loud so I assume there is something going wrong. I already installed lm-sensor But it says it needs to know the chip name in order to display $ sensors detect Parse error in chip name `detect' Try `senso...