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why slight delay after failed login in tty
Whenever I mistype my password when logging in in a tty, I have noticed that I have to wait for a second before I'm able to log in again. I can't seem to find the reason for this nor what is causing ...
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Prevent udevd from inspecting this device?
I think this error message was from my usb mouse, how could I know that?
systemd-udevd[225]: error opening ATTR{/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0/power/control} for ...
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1answer
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How can you change the format command used by man?
I'd like to define a new command that prints man pages to PostScript, but using a page size different than the default. For example, on Mac OS X you can run
man -t ls | open -f -a Skim
to open the ...
4
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0answers
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after BIOS splash, will not boot, asked to select OS, but can't
I'm running Linux Mint 13 MATE 64-bit. Everything has been working for several weeks. Yesterday, when I tried to boot up my computer, after the BIOS screen flashes I reach a screen with a black ...
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1answer
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Is there a Ytalk IM successor?
Back in the stone ages, when men were men and women were women and Unix's competitor was VMS, Unix had a lovely talk (or ntalk, or ytalk) split screen IM command where you could talk and both parties ...
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0answers
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Cycle through clients on both screens in awesomewm
I am using awesomewm and have two monitors, so Mod4+j and Mod4+k cycle through windows on current screen only. Is there a way to cycle through all windows/clients on all screens to make it work like ...
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0answers
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Missing Firmware for Wired NIC on Debian
I'm trying to install debian 64bit from a debian live image using YUMI on my usb drive. I'm installing it on an Inspiron 6400, and there is missing firmware. I can't connect to the internet ...
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2answers
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building my own initrd, how to populate dev directory
I am trying to learn stuff about initrd. I have followed this tutorial to build my own initrd from scratch, and I installed busybox on it. Then I made an .iso from it with isolinux, so I could test it ...
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1answer
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Understanding the output of the “who -a” command
I ask this question because, while there are many answers on the internet showing that "who -a" is an option, nobody explains how to read the output. If you can provide a link to an online site that ...
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xmllint display values of more than 1 attributes in single execution
I am using xmllint to parse xml file which has several tags and each tag has several attributes. Sample structure as shown below:
<root>
<child attr1="abc" attr2="def" attr3="ghi" />
...
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0answers
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Portforwarding on LAN
I have a server with Zentyal 3.0 (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS).
I have 2 lancard (eth0 - internet, eth1 - LAN), a DNS (sz**.myftp.org).
The portforward works, but when I aks a request for DNS address or outer ...
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Why does Linux purge the memory cache when it is nearly full?
Here's what the memory graph looks like on a VPS running CentOS with 512MB of RAM and nginx/php-fpm/mysqld serving (mostly static) content to a couple thousand visitors per day.
As you can see, ...
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1answer
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what is the difference between “chmod 775” and “chmod 2755”?
Question
What is the difference between "chmod 775" and "chmod 2755" ?
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PS/2 to USB port for keyboard gives “unable to enumerate USB device on port 5”
I got my hands on a Logitech Ultra X (Y-SX49) keyboard, with US key marks. The US key placement is much better than my Swedish native, at least for programmers, because there are much fewer shortcuts ...
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1answer
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Using Atlas from scipy
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit. I need to work with python and scipy, I installed them and when I run the test:
python -c "import scipy; scipy.test()"
I get the message:
ImportError: ...
