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 | I recently built a crypto currency miner and I'm using Linux Mint as my OS for the miner. I manually turn on the miner by navigating to ~/Desktop/claymore and running ./start_only_eth.bash and my miner starts mining. So i palced this line `./home/ethereum/Desktop/claymore/start_only_eth.bash` in the /etc/init.d/rc.local file but I don't think …  |
| | A while back I built a computer with an Asus motherboard, a SSD, and two milk creates for a cheap case, and I had Xubuntu installed on it. I have tried to install Xubuntu on it again several times today but it always fails to create the partitions. I keep … |
| | I have been downloading old kid's readio stories and trying to burn them onto mp3 CDs for my daughter. The problem is that when she plays the CDs on the mp3 CD player in her room the tracks are not in order. I have edited the meta-data and labeld every … |
| | I recently purchased a new Vizio 55" LED 1080p tv but I'm having trouble connection my Nintendo 64 to it. The red & white audio cable are working fine and I'm getting all of the audio but there is not yellow port on my new tv for the N64's yellow … |
| | I recent created a .vimrc file in my home directory because in addition to syntax highlighting and auto indention I also wanted my tabs to be four columns wide and to be tabs and not spaces but now that I have my file setup I am unable to use backspace …  |
| | [Linux Mint] Linux Mint I'm following a book on Django and it has this -> https://hellowebapp.com/setup/ accompanying website. Take a look below at what I'm getting when I get to the "Start your Django project" section of the link. Here's a peak at my terminal input and feedback. (venv) user@mothership … |
| | I'm trying to reset my mariadb password following this site -> https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-reset-your-mariadb-root-password/ but when I enter `mysql -u root` I get the following error: `ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2 "No such file or directory")` Any ideas? Thanks. |
| | `grep -v "#EXTINF:" All.m3u | sed 's#../##'g` I'm using the line above to try and make the playlists that I export from Banshee compatible with my digital music player. When I run the sed portion of this script I'm trying to remove the portion of the path up to where …  |
| | I just purchased an 240 GB SSD for my older Toshiba Satellite. I would rather not go through trying to save the files from the HDD and install the Linux Mint Debian Edition and then move all the files back, I would like to just be able to clone the … |
| | Linux Mint (Ubuntu). I'm looking for a way to encrypt some of my external HDDs. I was looking this option over -> https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/encrypt-your-data-with-encfs-on-ubuntu/ but I'm not sure how well this would work. I read this on the top portion of the site -> "It is a pass-through filesystem, not an …  |
| | I have an older Toshiba Satellite laptop with Linux Mint OS installed. It pretty old and it's starting to show as it's getting slower. It's got a bigger screen and it's even got the num pad on the right of the keyboard in addetion to the numbers at the top. … |
| | My daughter has a Samsun Android tablet that has ran out of space so I purchased an sd card. The card is mounting and I reformatted it from the Android device but the device is still claiming to be full when she tries to install new apps. I tried this … |
| | After running rsync with the `-a --delete source dest` arguments on my music library to my sd card I am getting the following errors. default_perms_for_dir: sys_acl_get_file(Tears For Fears/Donnie Darko, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT): No such file or directory, falling back on umask rsync: mkstemp "/media/garrett/MUSIC-SD/Tears For Fears/Donnie Darko/.Mad World.mp3.yr2Xyc" failed: No such file … |
| | File drop database if exists contacts create database contacts; use contacts; create table names ( ID mediumint not null auto_increment primary key, firstName varchar(20), lastName varchar(20) ); create table addresses ( ID mediumint not null auto_increment primary key, nameID mediumint not null, addr1 varchar(30), addr2 varchar(30), city varchar(30), state varchar(10), …  |
| | I've tinkered with php in the past but I'v also enjoyed playing around with python. I have been wanting to give python a try as a possible alternative to php but I haven't had much luck. All of the videos I find on the subject are about setting up Django … |
| | python3 pythonscript.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "pythonscript.py", line 1, in <module> import pysftp as sftp File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pysftp/__init__.py", line 12, in <module> import paramiko File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/paramiko/__init__.py", line 30, in <module> from paramiko.transport import SecurityOptions, Transport File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/paramiko/transport.py", line 32, in <module> from cryptography.hazmat.backends import default_backend ImportError: No module named …  |
| | I use firefox from Linux and Firefox keeps dropping my downloads, I don't know if this issue is specific to the Linux version or not. Is anyone else having this problem? Also, I looked through the settings but I don't see an option to limit the number of downloads that …  |
| | I'm trying to get my Mint desktop computer's home directory and my Debian media server's movies/shows directoiries backed up. When this is all said and done I'll be backing everything up to a 5 TB external USB HDD with it's own powers source connected to a Raspberry Pi 2 stored …  |
| | I've been wanting to build a backup server for my Mint desktop as well as for my Debian media server for a while now. To save money I purchased a Raspberry Pi 2 and I'm going to store it at a friends house who owns an ISP and thus has … |
| | My brothers laptop recently died, I believe due to a failed hard drive because when you turned it on you couldn't get out of the BIOS. I unscrewed the laptop's bottom from it's keyboard and replaced the hard drive but now it won't even turn on at all, I can't … |
| | import pymongo uri = "mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017" client = pymongo.MongoClient(uri) database = client['fullstack'] collection = database['students'] students = [student['mark'] for student in collection.find({}) if student['mark'] == 99.0] print(students) In the program above how does this work? Why is the `if` statement after the execution code? I would expect the `if` to be … |
| | When I tried to start MongoDB with the `mongod` command I got the following. garrett@mint-desktop ~ $ mongod mongod --help for help and startup options Sun Jan 10 14:50:55.049 [initandlisten] MongoDB starting : pid=23327 port=27017 dbpath=/data/db/ 64-bit host=mint-desktop Sun Jan 10 14:50:55.050 [initandlisten] db version v2.4.9 Sun Jan 10 14:50:55.050 … |
| | I'm trying to align 3-5 items up in a table cell, three are on the top and two are on the bottom. In each of my table cells I want the first item to be at the top left of cell and the third item I want to be at …  |
| | http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_forms.asp On the page above I read that GET variables are send via the url and POST variables are sent as an HTTP request. When I tried POST with a simple php script all of my POST variables were still in the URL which is what I was expecting for … |
| | I'm reading 'C++ For Dummies 7th Edu' and I'v ran into this little snipet that's confusing me. BOOK You can add const-ness, however, as in the following void fn(char* pName) { // declare following is allowed even though // declared Student(const char*) Student s(pName); // ...do whatever... } The function … |
| | I followed this site -> https://www.box.com/blog/how-to-debug-php-with-vim-and-xdebug-on-linux/ but I'm not having much luck. I followed the firections and my phpinfo() functions is showing that xdebug is up and running but I see don evidence of xdebug from within vim. I typed in my localhost url, localhost/mysite.php?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=1 and then wen to vim … |
| | I hot the following program from the book 'C++ For Dummies' but have two questions about it. First I compiled the program but I'm afraid to run because the memery created from the heap does not appear to me to get de-allocated. Am I correct in not wanting to run … |
| | I get the following in my web browser when I try to connect to my mariaDB database. `Error!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user ''@'localhost' (using password: NO)` It also doesn't matter if I use mariaDB root or a regular users credentials, I get the same thing. The error above … |
 | I'm not a professional programmer by any stretch of the imagination so here are my novice thoughts for what they are worth. I've played around with VS a few years ago but I found it's vast array of options daunting and I also realized that it makes you dumber when …  |
| | Linux Mint I logged into phpmyadmin and set the password option to 'no password' and now I can't log in. If I enter the password I was using I get this error -> `#1045 Cannot log in to the MySQL server` and if I don't user a password at all … |
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