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Thursday, May 24th, 2012
4:31 pm [slyfoot]	Wordwrapping a single random line with 'shuf' and 'fold'? [Edit: Fixed it. Thanks anyway] (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 21st, 2012
12:52 pm [zenten]	Starting GUI Programs Remotely To start up a program that uses X when logged in remotely (such as through ssh), you need to type this in from the remote login Bash shell: export DISPLAY=:0 Then invoke the program the way you would locally from the shell. Hint: Add that line to ~/.bashrc to have it happen automatically every time you log in. I've been trying to figure this out for years (I think I asked here about it once and no one knew), so I thought I'd share. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 16th, 2012
10:39 am [zenten]	Getting a rolling screen while booting from arch linux installer So, this problem is one that originally existed for me with the latest Ubuntu stable live CD. It did not happen with an old Live CD I had from 2007. I ended up trying the netboot install CD for Arch because I've been thinking of switching to this distro anyway, and when I saw the same problem happening I thought I'd come here. I gave this preamble because it might help point to where the issue is (something in more recent versions of the kernal maybe?) So here's what happens. I boot from the 64 bit netinstall CD. It goes along the boot process fine until I get to: Waiting for udev uevents to be processed Note, I'm only pretty sure that's what it says, as I have to write it down from my own memory as the screen is unreadable after that point. A bit after that the screen starts scrolling rapidly, like it's out of sync or something. I can't really read anything on the screen because it's scrolling so fast. In terms of hardware I have an older 64 bit system, with a video card going to an analog TV (old style, not HD). I think I can get more hardware info from the install CD from the menu before it actually gets to booting up the system, if there is some sort of specific information that would help. I've tried adding nomodeset, 1 and s to the kernel line (all separately), no effect. Thanks in advance for all your help. Edit: A friend of mine figured it out. I added vga=normal nomodeset to the end of the kernel boot line, and it worked from there. (Comment on this)
Friday, April 13th, 2012
9:56 am [zenten]	Removing files "under" a mounted directory So, lets say you have a bunch of files in /home, in the root partition. Lets also say you have mounted another partition onto /home. Is there a way to get rid of all the files in /home on the root partition without having to unmount the other partition from /home? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
2:41 pm [guenshan]	linux & ssd Dear Ubuntu Users, Lately i did some research on what you should or could do in linux if your computer has one of those 'fancy' solid state disks. I found a lot of howto's and technical stuff. Next step will be to filter the "stuff" and write down how and what i did, to (hopefully) tell Ubuntu on how to communicate in a more 'friendly' way with sammy's ssd ;) Note: sammy = Samsung NC10 netbook Stay tuned, more to come soon! I'm all ears and eyes for your comments, questions, opinions, whatever you want to say/know ;) [This is a crosspost from my journal. Please comment in my journal only, that will be easier for me to manage ;) Thank you!] Friendly Greetings, Guen Current Mood: optimistic (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
8:52 pm [grunver]	In Kubuntu 11.10 missing the button to launch applications. In Kubuntu 11.10 missing the button to launch applications. And how can I recovery it? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
6:26 pm [andrew_shell]	UFRaw vs RawTherapee vs Darktable I just started shooting with my Nikon D700. Doing it in RAW (and jpeg). Using desktop OS Ubuntu 11.10. And don't know yet which program is the best: UFRaw vs RawTherapee vs Darktable? Any one who can push me in the right (best) direction, please? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
10:16 pm [kagomeshuko]	Ubuntu and Firefox Downgrades Oh great LJGenie that knows how to edit everything in Ubuntu, I have two questions: 1) How can I downgrade to Maverick Meerkat? I upgraded to Maverick Meerkat from Lucid Lynx and then to Natty Narwhal from Maverick Meerkat on my laptop because I though, "Oh, I should probably upgrade" seeing that they are already working on the "O" version. However, I hate the layout of Natty Narwhal. I am also having tons of problems with things loading on Natty Narwhal. They do not start. The title bars turn gray and the rest of the screens turn white. This especially happens when I try to download any programs. The download dialogue box in firefox doesn't load. If it happens to load, the installer does not load. Is there an easy way to download or do I have to do a fresh install? Is Maverick Meerkat like Lucid Lynx or should I go back to Lucid Lynx? Also, where do I get the old versions? 2) Is it possible to run a newer and an older version of firefox? It is nice to have the newer version, but sometimes I work on ChaCha and it needs a version of firefox that is under version 4 as the toolbar needed is not compatible with the higher versions of firefox. I can use the lower versions, but it would be nice to use the high versions other than when I work on ChaCha. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
9:06 am [dumus_lj]	SysAdminDay 2011, 29-31 июля Северо-Кавказская Группа Пользователей Linux приглашает системных администраторов и IT-специалистов, руководителей IT-отделов и технических директоров предприятий, разработчиков и руководителей проектов к участию в Фестивале SysAdminDay 2011, который планируется с 29 по 31 июля 2011 года в окрестностях города Пятигорска. Вас ждёт рок-концерт «Open Air» и праздничный фейерверк в день открытия, интеллектуальные и спортивные конкурсы, тематические круглые столы, концерт авторской песни, файер- и неон- шоу, ночь электронной музыки, пейнтбол — это и многое другое ожидает участников SysAdminDay 2011. На Фестиваль допускаются только зарегистрированные участники, прошедшие предварительную регистрацию на сайте Фестиваля. Организаторы — NC LUG и ITproGROUP. Подробности и регистрация на официальном сайте Фестиваля: www.sysadminday.ru (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
4:26 am [aschen]	how to converse properly!!! People no longer how to converse in a proper manner. I am so utterly fucking tired of trying to talk to you people... Every time I share a story or express how a situation caused me to feel, you all automatically bring up something from your own experiences with no regard for the possibility that I might want to go further into it... This applies to almost everyone I know. I think it would be healthy if everyone practiced this conversational format with everyone. It will be far more rewarding for both parties involved. Essentially... The way real conversations work is there is supposed to be that one party expresses an experience they had. The other party (if interested) expresses interest and asks to hear more about it. THEN (if appropriate!) the listening party inquires as to how the speaking party feels about this. Things such as what they felt during this time. It is also fairly common to inquire as to what kind of impact this has had on other situations in life. When the listening party feels as though the speaker has expressed enough to seem complete, the listener can then relate to their story with their own experience. THIS is how a CONVERSATION works. Thank you. :D Posted via m.livejournal.com. (65 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
2:22 pm [jackal]	How to fix the "LANGUAGE = (unset)" perl errors on Debian Posting this because I couldn't find a solution posted for a non-interactive way to fix this ... THE PROBLEM: Perl gives LANGUAGE = unset errors. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file INTERACTIVELY FIX (debian): # dpkg-reconfigure locales (Select your language and hit "OK") PROGRAMTICALLY FIX (debian): # sed -i "s/^# en_US/en_US/" /etc/locale.gen # grep -v "^#" /etc/locale.gen en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 # /usr/sbin/locale-gen Generating locales (this might take a while)... en_US.ISO-8859-1... done en_US.ISO-8859-15... done en_US.UTF-8... done Generation complete. # update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
8:17 am [lightning_rose]	Oh, Fuck! Microsoft has agreed to buy the popular Internet telephone service Skype for $8.5 billion in the biggest deal in the software maker's 36-year history. There goes Linux support! Current Mood: angry (14 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
11:30 am [jackal]	How to fix Shockwave Flash plugin crashing in Chromium browser under Ubuntu THE BUG: Upgraded Chromium browser on ubuntu shows "The following plug-in has crashed: Shockwave Flash" when you go to youtube. Previously I posted on how to downgrade your version of Adobe Flash Plugin to make it work with the Chromium browser under Ubuntu. Well with the newest update it now WARNS YOU each time if you try to use the older version of the plugin. And you have to click to accept the warning that you are using the older version of the plugin. So I found another work around to enable the Chromium browser to be able to play youtube videos. * 1- Open FIREFOX and go to Youtube. Select any video and when it loads and starts playing RIGHT CLICK inside the video to get a menu and select "Settings". * 2- In the settings window you should see a popup window labeled "Adobe Flash Player Settings" like this. * 3- UNCHECK the setting for hardware acceleration. Now go open up a new CHROMIUM window and youtube videos should play fine. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
2:04 pm [churs]	About Tux and Admin. Some support needed! Here is a picture, that i made from plasticine. There is a shaman drum on the wall, necessary atribute of ukrainian and russian admins. They use it when system is broken, and standard methods for repair is't working. Also it frequently applies, when you need to set up some drivers on Linux :) Abot cat: it is cat! But something strange stands near it. Our admins love cats! Tux with Admin are celebrating birthday of some local hoster: they drinking champagne from mugs and eating sausage with cake. That picture was made for challange, if you like it, please support me there: http://hostpro.ua/konkurs/work.html?user=125 Just click twitter or facebook icon, login by widget and push orange button under image (it appears after login). I will be glad to hear something special about Linux admins in your country! (16 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
3:05 pm [poseidon]	RAID questions Hey all, I'm looking to build a server to protect my data at home. I'm wondering if anybody has experience with the debate I'm having. I'm going to use Ubuntu to build a software RAID 6 system. I was wondering about adding disks to the array afterward. Is it a real pain to do? And is it safe? I want to get my server built soon but buying the hard drives I need is going to be expensive. Should I save up the money and buy all of my drives at once or is it relatively simple to create the array with, say, 5 disks and then add one at a time as my storage needs increase? I don't mind if it takes time to rebuild the array. I can let it do the calculations overnight and when I'm at work but is it going to put my data at risk if I add a hard dive every few months and have to rebuild the array each time? Thanks guys! (19 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
3:34 pm [jackal]	How to fix Flash crashing under Chrome on Ubuntu 10.10 The newest version of flash is bugged and will constantly crash under Chrome on Ubuntu 10.10. Here's the bug if you want to read it yourself. And from the thread, here's how to fix it: ~$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer=10.1.85.3ubuntu1 ~$ dpkg -l |egrep -i "chromium|flashp" ii chromium-browser 9.0.597.94~r73967-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 Chromium browser ii chromium-browser-inspector 9.0.597.94~r73967-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 page inspector for the chromium-browser ii chromium-codecs-ffmpeg 0.6+svn20101129r67548+69665-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 Free ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser ii flashplugin-installer 10.1.85.3ubuntu1 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 31st, 2011
10:05 pm [papertowlbtrfly]	Y'know, after more than a week of pondering, I'm still perplexed by appStream and its possible effects. "Developers from RedHat, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Mandriva and Mageia got together last week at the SUSE office in Nürnberg to discuss how they might implement a universal application installer they are referring to as an Application Store. "   Sure I've got thoughts on the matter, but I haven't really been able to form an opinion either way as of yet. I'm interested in others perceptions, especially of those who were around the first time the concept was presented ? (note: there's also a video of the meeting on youtube)   //Update: from a (poorly, poorly written!) article: "Hopefully, if Canonical agrees to drop the CLA [contributor license agreement] from the Ubuntu Software Center, then we can just make a few changes and all use that," says Hughes. "If they refuse to drop the CLA, then it's impossible to ship in GNOME, and we'll have to write our own front end client. That would put the project back 18 months or so, I would estimate, and be a real waste of everyone's time," . -Richard Hughes, a developer at the meeting who works for Red Hat Current Mood: awake (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 17th, 2011
9:14 pm [papertowlbtrfly]	Does anyone know if the new French anti-piracy tax on all non-microsoft tablet pcs extends to tablets without a pre-installed OS? Or, seeing as this law seems to be derived from and targeted towards mobile devices, is it applicable to a tablet with a full desktop GNU/Linux distribution installed? Citations are greatly appreciated :) (15 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 14th, 2011
4:05 pm [vace117]	Linux Network Server Not specifically a Linux question, but I can think of no better group of people to ask this... The time has come to decommission my more than 10 year old network server, still running Slack 9, no less. Oh Slackware, we've had so much fun together :). However, the hardware started failing in the poor old thing, so I'm preparing for a slow migration to a new server, before this becomes an emergency 1 night long project :). Anyways, this box has 3 network cards in it and it's responsible for all of the routing and network related services in the house (routing, firewall, squid, apache, ftp, ssh tunneling relay, etc). Since I'm replacing the whole system, I decided to look into dedicated network server systems, but I have no experience with that sort of hardware at all, so I would love any suggestions you may have. The server must satisfy the following: - Fanless - 3 NICs - Cheaper than $400 - Kind of like this, actually: http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=11484 Any recommendations? (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
12:55 pm [funkjunky]	lightweight VM I'm looking for a lightweight distro to connect to a vpn. The only to things it needs to be able to do are run anyconnect or openconnect and a ssh service. Any recommendations? (3 Comments |Comment on this)