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I am using a bash script to toggle the touchpad on my laptop. I didn't write the script and know almost nothing about bash scripts. I have the script run when the laptop boots because I never want to use the touchpad and want it disabled. The script does the …

So I recently had a catastrophe with using the Mega cloud service with my Linux Mint desktop and I got my whole home directory wiped out. Everything got wiped out about an hour into syncing my 151 Gig home directory to the cloud so needless to say most of my …

./standalone.sh: 1: eval: /opt/java/jdk1.7.0_21/bin/java: not found Someone assist on how to fix the above erro kindly. Am trying to run a ./standalone.sh command in the terminal but am getting the above error.

There are some tutorials below, will it working for parked domain, or only for addon & subdomain? http://www.ndimensionz.com/kb/dedicated-ip-to-parked-addon-domain-in-cpanel/ http://www.prajith.in/how-to-assign-a-dedicated-ip-to-a-sub-domain-or-add-onpark-domain/ http://thelinuxfaq.com/183-assign-dedicated-ip-to-subdomain-parked-domain-addon-domain-in-whm there is also a thread asking this in 2008 https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/parked-domain-on-different-ip-address.93537/#post-424165 : The main domain does have its own IP Address, but I need the domain that is parked on the …

I recently purchased a 200 GB cloud drive from http://mega.nz but now it's wrecked havoc on my local machine. To give you an idea of what happened I'll start by saying this, when I first purchased my cloud account I didn't realize that it was set to sync in both …

Erle Robotics and Canonical combine forces once again to launch the "Internet of Toys" (IoT). Collaborating with the Hybrid Group, they will build the next generation of toys bringing together makers, hackers, DIY robot enthusiasts and developers. Toys are not just for kids: The IoT is fuelling the development of …

#STEP 0 : Install Install program pdftk and imagemagick : > sudo apt-get install pdftk imagemagick #STEP 1 : Convert Input is : /image/topic-01/01-01.jpg /image/topic-02/02-01.jpg /image/topic-02/02-02.jpg /image/topic-03/03-01.jpg Output is : - topic-01.pdf (1 pages) - topic-02.pdf (2 pages) - topic-03.pdf (1 pages) Basic convert : > find /image -type d …

I want to restart Apache when I change configuration file on a web application which is I need to create a php file for restarting Apache but I dont want to give a permission to user apache in /etc/sudoers Can someone explain intensively to me ? Don't see this is …

I have recently installed LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) onto my laptop but I can't isntall anything because it can't find the sources. I'm assuming I need to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file but I'm not sure. And if so I don't know in what way I should edit the file.

Hello, I am pretty new to cron jobs, as i am sure you can tell. So.... Let me tell you a little about my project. I am trying to create an invoice reminder system. What i have so far is a form that you fill in and upload an invoice, …

Hello, I am having a very strange problem. I am entering data in a file with the vi editor, and the data is to be read by a C program. Each line of data has to be 80 colums, with spaces to file out the line if there is no …

Hello, I am having a very strange problem. I am entering data in a file with the vi editor, and the data is to be read by a C program. Each line of data has to be 80 colums, with spaces to file out the line if there is no …

Hi guys, In WHM > Easyapache, there is this PHP extension : Safe PHP CGI - prevents users from overriding system php.ini my question, can i exclude a user from this, so the user can increase like memory_limit in they account? if not, is there alternative for this that allowed …

Below is something like what I get when I try to install anything on my just installed OS Linux Mint Debian Edition. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following extra packages will be installed: apache2-data apache2-utils Suggested packages: apache2-doc apache2-suexec-pristine apache2-suexec-custom The following NEW packages will …

I'm searching for a user-friendly tool (preferable with a GUI) which could help me convert my system partition (ext3/ext4) on my Linux Mint installation to a VirtualBox or VMWare HDD (VDI). It should run on Linux Mint 17, and be able to do the conversion while the system is running.. …

I just purchased an HP Envy 5642. I can print to it from Linux without a problem but I don't see a way to scan. When I hit scan on the printer it tells me to turn on the appropriate HP application in Windows which I am not running. I …

Two of my USB sticks have stopped auto mounting. I can still mount them manually by running `mount | grep /dev/sd` and then looking for the device name to mount from but that's having to go a little out of the way. Not all USB stick have stopped auto mounting, …

The 'perf stat' output for a certain executable is shown below. 2,207,929,785,602 cpu-cycles # 1.098 GHz [58.33%] 955,083,725,303 instructions # 0.43 insns per cycle [58.33%] 412,816,464,977 cache-references # 205.308 M/sec [58.33%] 38,645,898,456 cache-misses # 9.362 % of all cache refs [58.33%] 4,692,761,524 branch-misses # 2.334 M/sec [58.33%] 0 ref-cycles # …

When I want to sync my music directory to my SDcard I use the command `rsync -a --delete /home/garrett/Music /media/garrett/6BF6-AC8A` and everything works just fine. I got tired of typing all that in every time so I placed that command in the script ~/bin/music-sync and this is what the file …

How do you create web server? I wan't install linux server run web wordpress?

Hi , I would like to monitor upload and download datas of devices connected to the router. I am using the following iptables rules: sudo iptables -N DMon sudo iptables -A FORWARD sudo iptables -A FORWARD -d 70.70.70.1/26 -j DMon sudo iptables -A DMon -d 70.70.70.50 sudo iptables -A FORWARD …

Hi I am trying to setup a multinode Hadoop cluster and I would like to know, how to install hadoop in all the slaves machine from the master machine itself. Ideally, all the slave machines should have same configuration, is there a way to provide instructions to all the slaves …

Hello, I made a WebSocket service in Apache under CentOs with PHP and JS that works great if the protocol is ws:// . The problem is that the site is served through https:// so I must use wss protocol (cause mixed content policy). I have tried many approaches to make …

Take a look at the following lsit of files from my media server root@media-server:/home/garrett/Videos/Movies# ls -l total 16 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Jun 27 22:17 Adventures In Babysitting.mkv -> ../Movies-Secure/Adventures In Babysitting.mkv lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Jun 27 22:17 A Far Off Place.mkv -> ../Movies-Secure/A Far Off Place.mkv …

Hi We are planning for Heroku Platform migration...How to estimare dynos required for the application...?

Hi, I've been having some issues with my server that at times it runs the application smoothly but lately there has been some irregularities in the performance. We run the server on Rackspace but they are telling us that the problem is in our end. Our site is running on …

Hi Has anyone of you having a problem opening firefox , google chrome and thunderbird since yesterday? coz almost all of our unit that is running in ubuntu and Zorin OS are experiencing the same bugs.. i already tried updating and upgrading the OS but still having the error and …

How to write Command to erase all files in the current directory, including all its sub-directories, using only one command?

I've always been able to navigate through my Windows drive after booting up in my Linux OS but ever since I got Windows 8 there seems to only my a 50/50 change of a successful mount. When I type this command sudo mount -t ntfs -o uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177 /dev/sdd4 /media/garrett/Windows I …

Hi All, I'm trying to setup ssh key authentication on a git server and remove the password authentication. The server and any clients are all local at the moment. The clients are running Windows 7. I've got the ssh key part set up but I'm having trouble preventing the password …

Hello!I have an problem may be someone can help me about it,I put in folder swf-s and i am protecting them with htaccess. I give access some websites,my problem is to block some urls who are geting iframe embed from website have access.Is possible to block swf players dont appeard …

I am trying to remotely access a computer running UNIX/Linux from another computer by using telnet. I was able to activated the telnet in windows but I cant find the right server address and (port) to open the connection between windows and unix. Do you have any suggestion for me?

Hi I just want to ask why does the game not work in my firefox browser not working. I can only see a gray area. It's in playr.org My linux distro is ubuntu 14.10 by the way. Sorry I can't place an image here.

Hi guys! recently i decided add more Ip on my dedicate server, like i don't want to host multiple websites in some IP. But the big deal is my main IP is 46.xx.xx.xx is working parfect. And my subnets ip are different network, like 88.1xx.1xx.xx Some to is working if …

Hello. When i open a file in my linux localhost with the command "gedit file.php" and then put a part of code in it, then i can't save the file. the save icon above the gedit is deactivated. What can i do?

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Hello. How can i create a new file in my linux localhost?

Hey guys, not sure how but my conky manager pretty much just dissapeared earlier today and I had to download the package and reinstall it again. However upon installation some dependancies were not met .. //I had apparently fixed this issue in the passed but I can't find nor remember …

I get exactly this same error as [this Sir over here](http://askubuntu.com/questions/111959/what-is-a-bad-quality-package). There is solution given: cd ~/Downloads sudo dpkg -i *.deb sudo apt-get install -f What worries me more is that Brackets (by Adobe), Opera (by Opera), Chrome (by Google) are also considered bad quality. I could understand that sometimes …

On certain websites you can order laptops, and sometimes even they allow you to change certain parts of it. Let's take the example of HDD, the website offered quite an amount of types of HDD's. The largest HDD they can deliver to the laptop is 2TB, could I instead ask …

Hi, guys this is phpmyadmin search page, for example i want to search keyword1 in few tables that already selected http://freakimage.com/images/525phpmyadmin_search_page.jpg then its go to the result page http://freakimage.com/images/248phpmyadmin_result_page.jpg now how to get back to search page again, that already have the few tables selected? i try push Back button …

Hi Guys. recently i got a Dedicated server with one Ip. and on my side i got man domains, which i want to point for differents ip's but in one server. I can get ip from provider but i've to by. ok bying is not big deal. But the point …

Hi When I run root@kali# volatility procdump -p 356 -f /root/Desktop/mydumps/myDump1.img I get this error Volatility Foundation Volatility Framework 2.4 ERROR : volatility.plugins.procdump: Please specify a dump directory (--dump-dir) Any one know how can I solve it? Im using kali linux I appreciate your help

I just built my first computer and instlled headless on it. When I boot it up there are a few problems on the black and white screen with all the BS. It usually starts but it takes forever. All the parts are right out of the box via amazon and …

I have interest in knowing and working with Linux,so what distro will be the best for me to start with?

I just installed a headless Debian on my first that I'v ever built but I can't install any packages on it. root@media-server:~# apt-get install vim Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package vim is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may …

Hi I want install phpMyAdmin but I can't!!! I do : # yum install phpmyadmin loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit,security loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Error:Cannot retrieve metalink roe repository:epel. Please verifiy its path and try again whene i see this Error what should i do?

I am mostly working in Linux and it is very frustrating that there are few PDF tools on Linux have limited functionality. This is especially true when trying to manipulate a PDF file with forms. I found [okular](https://okular.kde.org/) to be the best for visualizing most PDF files, including annotation and …