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How to access NFS share from Windows 7 pro?
Everywhere I see Windows and NFS, there is a mention of some kind of subsystem of unix apps or something like this, but apparently it's not in Windows 7 pro. So the question is: what can I do to get access to NFS share from Windows 7 Pro? What to download, from where? Is there any commercial applic…
Killing a job in Ubuntu
This is probably a frequently asked question, but I've been unable to find good documentation. I have jobs running on my system: How can I kill this process? I've tried various commands, like , but it hasn't worked.
How to get a colored tab completion?
Is there a way to get colored output when using tab completion in a terminal? My colors are fine everywhere else so I know that I've enabled a color terminal successfully. Using bash in Ubuntu (10.10).
How do I access the host's hard drive in VMware?
I have a Windows 7 host machine. My VMware player is running Ubuntu 10.10. I want to access my main C:\ in Ubuntu to be able to access all my files. I have tried: "Edit virtual machine settings" > Hardware > Add > Hard Disk > Use Physical disk > Use entire disk > Finish*. But when I go into Ubuntu …
Why doesn't alt+F4 close cmd?
In windows, alt+F4 does not close cmd (As in: WindowsKey+R, cmd, Enter) How different is the command window from a normal window?
Command line tool to generate memorable passwords?
I’m looking for a tool, command line or GUI, for Linux that generates memorable passwords. An equivalent of what I am looking for would be passwords that the Mac OS X keychain can generate, something like . Something strong, but easily memorized by a user.
Turn off the link hover statusbar in Google Chrome
I want to turn off the feature where whenever I hover over a hyperlink and in the bottom lefthand corner it shows a light blue hover tooltip about where that link goes. Why do I want to turn it off? It's annoying to me. I am distracted as I work. None of the other browsers do it. Besides, it serves…
Console like Gnome Terminal for Windows
I'm looking for console like the Gnome Terminal for Windows to replace cmd.exe. I'd like to have tabs and easy copy&paste. Do you know a tool like that?
scp + copy the symlinks
Why does the command not copy links from the local computer to the other? How can I copy the links when in the source directory I have both files and links?
How to set default screen colours in putty/ssh
I use putty to ssh to linux box. By default I get black screen background with white foreground. To change colours, I go to change settings -> Window/colours and then I set background colours as white and foreground colours as black. This is more easy on my eyes. But I can't seem to be able to set …
How to erase a hard drive with unwritable sectors?
So I have a hard drive that is failing. I want to erase the data on it before sending it for replacement. I'm trying to use , but it stops at the first write error. How can I overwrite the drive with zeros, ignoring write errors? seems to only affect the input file.
Search for a text pattern in linux
I'm a linux newbie. I need to search for a string "teststring" in all *.java files coming under /home/user1/ (including subfolders). How can I do it in linux via shell command.
Prevent gnu screen from resizing display size
Every time I start screen (screen -A) or try to connect to an already running screen session (screen -Ax) my terminal is resized to 80 columns. I want to prevent screen from resizing my terminal. I am using iTerm on Snow Leopard and my screen sessions are on a centos machine (I use bash as my shell…
IE: Why does Compatibility View disappear for some websites?
IE9 displays the Compatibility Mode button for some websites, but not for others. For the others, I can still enable it by adding it via Tools > Compatibility View Settings, and then it behaves as expected. Why doesn't this button just show up always? Is there a way to override that?
Eclipse doesn't autocomplete and find references anymore
A few days ago I was using autocomplete features and Ctrl-click without any problem. But now those features don't work anymore: the autocomplete shows up but is always empty, and Ctrl-click doesn't work because Eclipse doesn't recognize the classes anymore. This doesn't even work for a class or fun…
Find and Replace several several different values all at once
I have a file with multiple instances of and and I need to replace both those strings with and respectively. Currently I'm doing two Find and Replace functions on each file one that finds and replaces it with and the other that finds and replaces it with . Is there any way to do this all at once in…
Using Yum to install packages for my user only
I would like to be able to install packages by using a package manager (Yum is available on my server), but I don't have root access. I don't technically need root access, I just want the packages to be installed in my home directory. Is there any way I can do this?
Why do we have 3 types of X-selections in LINUX?
says: Why do we have 3 types of X-Selections? What are their purposes?
Check number of pending security updates in Ubuntu
Let me start by saying I have been forbidden to enable automatic updates on our Ubuntu servers, for both security and regular packages. When I log into any of my four Ubuntu servers, the welcome message contains this: However, when I run the Nagios plugin that monitors APT, I get: I need to know ho…
How can I create multipart tar file in Linux?
How can I create a multipart tar file in Linux?