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Hi, for my final thesis I choose to elaborate about fuzzing. When I will defending my thesis I should have some results, some bugs. I would like to test some unix program but I need to choose carefully. I need the probability of finding a bug to be the greatest. …

Hi everyone , i have this code and i know that the problem is in the While loop but i cant clearly identify the problem , i know its about the child processes . but i need more clarity why the loop is making problems. please help thanks allot. #include …

At present which Linux OS is mostly used in the world ? If you any infograph on Linux Usage please forward me.

hi , I used to right click on a .jar file and select " open with openjdk " from the option menu , last night my computer was updated ,openjdk version 7 is installed but that option is no longer there when I right click on the .jar file , …

Related: https://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/linux-and-unix/threads/494353/urgent-nothing-boots-anymore The error of my laptop, the HDD turned out to be the culprit. They tried to recover data, but it won't really work and I think they just pull me off my money, I can get them to wipe the HDD and make it useful again for 50 …

Fast story: After I restarted my laptop. I met critical error, I tried to LiveCD-boot from Ubuntu (to repair GRUB with it), but when I try to try it without installing, try to check memory, try to check disk. It prompts me these errors: http://oi59.tinypic.com/2hg8mrt.jpg http://oi58.tinypic.com/2ecmdsz.jpg Please, help.

I just finished my first computer that I've ever built from the scratch. I used an MSI motherboard, AMD processor, DD3 RAM, and a Samsung SSD. I am wanting to install a headless Debian on it that I'll user for my in home media server but I'm having problems. I …

hi pls am new to linux how can i download it from net

I just couldn't fit all of it in the title, actual title is: **How to send and receive messages (data packets) between UI and the server. And what would be most minimalistic CLI Linux edition that would only be able to receive and send such data and also perform "basic" …

Eh... I lost recently laptop to Windows, Microsoft made me cost about 700$, and that all in just 2 weeks. And even though I start hating it, I cannot deny the fact that many applications and certain games I rely on are runable only on Windows. Graphics card aren't really …

I use Banshee as my Media player and it works just find except that when I rip CDs into .wav files Banshee doesn't always get the ID3 information, artist, album, title, etc... Any suggestion on a good CD ripper for Linux that does a better job at this. I would …

Hi Guys, I'm currently stuck at the moment. Just a bit of background. I have installed elementary os freya, I have an nvidia GTX 750 graphics cards, which is quite new, I believe it is a haswell chip. I have following the instructions successfully here: http://www.elementarynow.com/graphic-drivers-for-elementary-os/ But the error message …

Hi How can I install volatility 2.4 on ubuntu? [Click Here](http://www.volatilityfoundation.org/#!24/c12wa) Is there any debian packages?

Hi group, I'm using VB.net to convert an output file (text) from a Linux based program into a file that will easily read in Notepad. I found some code in VB.net to do this conversion for UNIX that works "OK" (meaning fair but not perfect). It looks like this: txtLine …

hi , i need help please, i have the following code but im not sure about how many childs are created and if the parent executes the first if statement : if ((i & 1) && fork() == 0) , or not , since im confused about the term (i …

Hi I wonder how to compile Truecrypt from source in linux or kali linux? I already downloadet the source code of TrueCrypt 7.1a Source.tar.gz here: https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm I think we have also to download Cryptographic Token Interface $ wget ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-11/v2-20/pkcs11.h $ wget ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-11/v2-20/pkcs11f.h $ wget ftp://ftp.rsasecurity.com/pub/pkcs/pkcs-11/v2-20/pkcs11t.h Anyone can do it step …

me@MYFIRSTNAME-Ubuntu:~$ cd ~/tux* me@MYFIRSTNAME-Ubuntu:~/tuxlol-0.1-dd62ba8-bin$ mono tuxlol.exe patch --dir "~/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/LeagueOfLegends/drive_c/Riot\ Games/League\ of\ Legends/" The specified directory is invalid. me@MYFIRSTNAME-Ubuntu:~/tuxlol-0.1-dd62ba8-bin$ ll total 384 drwxrwxr-x 2 me audio 4096 sep 29 2013 ./ drwx------ 27 me me 4096 apr 5 16:03 ../ -rw-rw-r-- 1 me me 84480 sep 15 2013 CommandLine.dll -rw-rw-r-- 1 …

I installed Qt, again, on new installation of Ubuntu. It asked me for `sudo` password, which is not strange since it wants to write it's data in kind of restricted environment. But what if some cracker, has embedded a virus and went of distributing working software from trustworthy company, but …

Have a Toshiba Satellite Pro, that had a dual boot (WIN 7, and WIN 10 Tech preview). Setup a separate partition called Unbuntu, and installed Unbuntu 14, on that partition. Now Unbuntu boots first to a Grub menu (I’m a newb Linux user), and it gives me choices, see below …

..am using manjaro linux and i have a problem with audio system that videos are playing without any sounds ..what should i do in this case ???

Title may be kind of confusing. Let me explain with an example. If someone wants to make native and precise Windows applications, and wants to look and seem professional and wants to use official tools. They most likely need to learn *high* language, C# would suffice, they also need native …

I'm looking for a good printer/scanner that works well with Linux, any suggestions on brands and models? Thanks.

Hello guys I tried to install kvm on my laptop and here what he says to me root@abdelouahab-HP-Compaq-6830s:~# kvm-ok INFO: Your CPU does not support KVM extensions KVM acceleration can NOT be used Please can I replace KVM by another software?

Hello fellow coders, I am in this situration right now, where i'm soon going to buy my 3'rd dedicated server, and i wondered what Linux OS would be best? Right now i have a 64 GB and a 32 GB server with Linux CentOS 6.5 Minimal, and i'm using the …

I just installed CentOS in my Oracle virtual box and now I'm having trouble getting it to connect online. I'm following the directions here -> http://xmodulo.com/how-to-configure-network-interfaces-in.html but the file ifcfg-eth0 is not showing up in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ a lot of ther ifFILES are showing up but not that one. I would …

I am running Ubuntu running Apache 2.4.7. My problem is that when I try to view my site from the web I get the "Forbidden / You don't have permission to access / on this server." error. I have tried everything under the sun from setting permission, to creating virtual …

I had 2 Linux's on my laptop. But I really needed to start something that required DirectX in it, also, it had to be on Windows. I tried to use VMware and VirtualBox but to no avail, so it had to be real machine, not virtual one. I installed Windows …

so there 3 questions that I'm really confused, anyone familiar with unix want help? 1. Each file system in UNIX has at least one table that identifies file in it, the entries are called i-nodes.where are these inodes resides?(location) 2. What operation would cause the i-nodes of a file, say …

I'm running Linux Mint (Ubuntu) and have recently installed KeePassX to keep track of my passwords. But I can't make it work with Firefox.... I have made an entry with the following information: Title: <title from the webpage> Username: <e-mail used when logging in> URL: <URL pointing to the page …

Hey everyone. Long story short i installed Centos web panel. Its amazing so far. This is my second time installing it as i messed something up the first time, first time i was able to change the apache template in each directory itself and it would change. Now i cant...I …

Hello all, my name is Marvin. I am working on obtaining my linux system administrator certificat. I created a file with a few sentences. The only task that I am having problems with is to delete word "and" using the vi last-line mode. I know hot do delet a word …

I'm trying to install CentOS on my Linux Mint desktop through Oracle's VirtualBox. The instalation screen says it's installing to sda1 and that's it's mount points are /boot -> 500 MB, / -> 5.02GB, & 614 MB. Is this safe or is there a chance this is going to mess …

I wasnt sure where to put this. Its a PHP script but i am running CentOS on a VPS. I have a feeling it could be an encoding problem which is why i put it here. On the website the videos look great, and plays perfect but when i view …

hi, i want to close any internet browser running on linux through terminal. how to do this ? and how to implement in java code?

I have an OpenVZ unmanaged VPS. Installed the control panel, LAMP stack, have the DNS and domains on the new nameservers(showing up if you go to the domains) But when i run a pingdom check i have an SOA error. Was reading that it is probably a reverse DNS issue...What …

Hi Everyone, I have a site that keeps asking for the apache server authentication before it gets to the actual login page. How can I eliminate the server authentication pop-up and use the actual login page (which is a form with username and password field) to allow selected user to …

According to [François Beaufort](https://plus.google.com/+FrancoisBeaufort/posts) who is a French 'Happiness Evangelist' at Google (and no, I didn't make that up), Chromebook users will soon be able to choose what operating system they want. In a publicly shared post from last week, Beaufort states that "in order to support installing and testing …

can unix is a version of linux operating system?? any one please explain it

Hi I like to compile Hyperion in kali linux but it seems command not found? How can I get the path and compile it? /usr/share/windows-binaries/Hyperion-1.0# ls Examples Fasm FasmAES-1.0 license.txt Makefile Obj readme.txt Src root@kali:/usr/share/windows-binaries/Hyperion-1.0# i586-mingw32msvc-g++ Src/Crypter/*.cpp -o hyperion.exe bash: i586-mingw32msvc-g++: command not found I appriciate your help

I recently re-installed my Mint system and now vim does not auto indent when writing code and has poor color coding. Does any one know what I need to change and where the config file for that is? Thanks.

I have a localhost server running on port 4000 which listens to requests sent to it and executes commands and returns output to client in a json format. I'm actually trying to run docker commands for the gcc compiler image. I have a code in PHP that is working just …

Using Ubuntu, I tried to several desktop environments. I tried Unity, Gnome, kDE (?) and now Cinnamon. I liked Cinnamon, I once saw screenshot of someone who has nicely modified it, to make it look very awesome. He had clock in top right corner which seemed on be on background …

My vitual machine (drived by CentOS) IP is 192.168.1.114 It can be successfully connected using SecureCRT and FileZila. I try to use Curl to implement file uploading and downloading, curl --ftp-ssl ftp://192.168.1.114 It doesn't work and there is no avaliable information on offical site. Who can tell me how to …

Hey there! I learned that when I want to open Terminal in one direction that my terminal is at. I can use `nautilus .` for Gnome and `dolphin .` for the glassy DE. But what it does, it starts the program in Terminal and runs GUI. But as soon as …

I have a client who had hired a web developer to help him take his site to the next level. This developer moved 3 of his sites to a server that provides no tech support whatsoever. Now this web developer has sold his company and moved on to another job, …

hi , I am using florence virtual keyboard on my ubuntu 14.04 machine . today I read an article which says scrambled virtual keyboards are safer than regular virtual keyboards . is there any scrambled virtual keyboard for ubuntu ? should I be concerned about using florence or onboard ? …

Hello fellow coders, I need help, I'm getting this error. vncserver@:1.service - Remote desktop service (VNC) Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/vncserver@:1.service; enabled) Active: Failed (Result: resources) since Mon 2015-01-19 23:46:19 CET; 1min 57s ago Process: 557 ExecStart=/sbin/runuser -l root -c /usr/bin/vncserver %i (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 553 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i > …

I'm currently building a headless Debian NFS media server and I'm doing most of my testing on my desktop. My cliant streaming device will by my "WD TV Live' TV streamer because it can read a Linux NFS network, I hate Samba. One of my problems is that the TV …

So far, every program was either installable by *.deb* file or through *Ubuntu Software Something*. What it did is create a nice file, which I could search up, which had a nice looking icon, and I could drag this icon, onto bar and it would be saved as favorite. I …

If you're creating a media server how do you control if the files are pushed out via tcp or udp? Or is that a client thing? I'm currently building a headless Debian media server and I was wonsering how that words. As far as streaming videos in my house either …