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I've never really thought about how the shell actually executes piped commands. I've always been told that the "stdout of one program gets piped into the stdin of another," as a way of thinking about …
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There are often times that I want my computer to do a single task, but not right now. For example, I could have it notify me in 30 minutes that it is time to leave work. Or maybe I want it to run a …
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The manual page says about the barrier option for ext4:
Write barriers enforce proper on-disk ordering of journal commits, making volatile disk write caches safe to use, at some performance …
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I have a device that needs a block of memory that is reserved solely for it, without the OS intervening. Is there any way to tell BIOS or the OS that a block of memory is reserved, and it must not …
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I'll begin by saying I'm a newbie sys admin.
I need a new PostgreSQL 9.1 machine. My go to distro is Debian (for no good reason other than it's what I first learned). However, when I started …
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From what I understand, the right place to put your own scripts is /usr/local/bin (for instance a script I use to back up some files). I notice that this folder is currently (by default) owned by …
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As I recall, ^H means Backspace. I generated it by pressing CTRL+V, CTRL+H.
So the ^H should remove the last character, as it is the same as Backspace and it should act just as if I pressed Backspace …
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I just ran apt-get upgrade on my debian 5 vps and I got this error:
tar: unrecognized option `--warning=no-timestamp'
Now when I try to install other packages e.g: imagemagick I get the same …
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If you were helping someone to learn the concept of pipes on the command line what example would you use? The example that actually came up was as follows:
cat whatever.txt | less
I feel like …
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How can I run a socks server using antinat. I read the tutorials, but I can't get it working. My firewall is off, but I get the error:
proxy server is refusing the connection
What could I be …
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I have a problem configuring my mail client on my Mac OS 10.6.8. These were the steps I did:
# touch ~/.fetchmailrc
I edited the file and created the contents:
poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 …
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I am using the following command to scan for deleted files:
sudo ntfsundelete /dev/sda1 -S 400m-20g -p 100
How can I restore the all of the results?
I have tried:
sudo ntfsundelete /dev/sda1 -u …
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