All Issues
24,993 verified issues
How long can you read files from a flash drive if kept in a cool, dark room?
Say you had some sensitive information that you didn't want to store on the internet, was incredibly important to you, and you didn't need to access very often either. Think of a digital picture taken of your grandma days before her death or something... Very important stuff. So you load the file t…
Problem with ping (open socket: Operation not permitted)
I have such trouble when using under root: What does it mean? When I try it says: I'm using Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
What's the best way of keeping a PGP private key file generated by GnuPG?
What's the best way of keeping a PGP private key file generated by GnuPG? I will just store my public key online, in Gmail, on many of my computers. Where/how best to protect and store the private key file?
MySQL Preference Pane control for MySQL installed via Homebrew
this is a repost of my question at apple.stackexchange.com I have installed MySQL via homebrew: . I'd like to get the MySQL preference pane hooked up to my installation of MySQL through homebrew. How can I achieve this?
How to force power-off of a Samsung Series 9 laptop?
No, the four-second hold on the power button isn't working. The battery is built-in and not user removable. I was working on installing Fedora 15 on a new Samsung 900X3A (a very neat machine) and Linux crashed while trying to reboot. After that, nothing works. The power button does not work. Closin…
How to (legally) get Windows virtual machine on linux via VirtualBox without buying Windows
My goal is to install Windows 7 on a virtual machine running on Ubuntu. The Lenovo machine came with Windows 7 installed, but did not come with a boot disk. What are my options? Should I ask Lenovo for a disk? Will I need to purchase Windows just for the virtual machine?
How to switch words in an easy manner (in VIM)?
I'm not good enough at vim to determine whether this was possible or not (which is why I came to superuser and not good) ~ is there a way in vim to easily switch two words? for example in is there a quick/easy way to change that to ???
Match and delete in Notepad++
I have the following text in Notepad++. 192.168.0.1 37 ms N/A 192.168.0.2 Dead N/S 192.168.0.3 Dead N/S 192.168.0.100 37 ms N/A How do I do a find and replace that matches "Dead" and eliminates the line with output like the following? 192.168.0.1 37 ms N/A 192.168.0.100 37 ms N/A I have tried to us…
In which directory should I install programs on Linux?
I use Linux for 2 years at my work and I still confused where should my installed programs remain. Now I use e.g. I've installed vim73 from sources there (reason not to use package manager is there is no 7.3 version of in my sources e.g. on my ). But all my programs I installed from sources previou…
Want to try out Linux, what do?
I've been learning ruby on rails for a while. At first I resisted using the console, but after a while I can say that I LOVE it. If Linux is anything like that, I think it's going to be legit. I think I'm gonna try Ubuntu for the time being. However, here's the question - where do you learn the pow…
Making SSD & HDD work together like a hybrid
I have a 90GB SSD but 90GB soon gets filled up. My users folder alone is 26GB. To get round this I use Symlinks (read the How-To Geek article for more). Is there any way to make a separate SSD and HDD work like a hybrid so that frequently accessed files are moved to the SSD automatically? This woul…
Filezilla on Mac: SFTP with passwordless authentication?
I am trying to follow the instructions here for OSX http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Howto I can successfully to the target server with no username/password (OSX picks up my certificates from the directory), but I have no idea how to get Filezilla to do the same. I have tried just running which do…
Buying A Computer "Case" Fan... Does It Always Run At 100% Unless Told Otherwise?
What happens if I do not plug it into the motherboard and it does not have a switch? I have seen fans before with an "off/low/high" switch that allows you to manually set their speed. I have seen fans that plug into the motherboard and are controlled by the OS. I am curious... what does a fan do by…
Is there a compression or archiver program for Windows that also does deduplication?
I'm looking for an archiver program that can perform deduplication (dedupe) on the files being archived. Upon unpacking the archive, the software would put back any files it removed during the compression process. So far I've found: http://www.exdupe.com/ http://archiver.reasonables.com/ Anyone awa…
How to increase mouse sensitivity beyond normal limit?
It's one faster. My office PC (DELL) runs WinXP. It has an el-cheapo DELL laser mouse. I find that maximum mouse sensitivity in Control Panel is not fast enough for me. Is there a way to take my sensitivity beyond the Control Panel limit? Can my mouse go to 11?
Where is a typical Linux program installed
I mean not just the binary, but its libraries, config files and data (strictly speaking all files). Also when I download a package where is it best to extract it. If I move these files will the app be corrupted?
How to set Default Browser on Ubuntu from command line?
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 with Fluxbox. Since I installed Chromium-browser, it has been set as the default system browser (don't know why, don't know when, maybe I clicked accept somewhere without paying attention). Now every web link I click (for example from Skype), Chromium will be opened instead o…
How to properly secure a Linux computer
Obviously, there are different methods for securing based on home versus professional computers. My questions generally pertains to securing home desktops, but professional protection is definitely welcome :) Knowledge is power. Ever since moving to the wonderful world of Linux a couple years ago, …
What should a person know before assembling their first computer?
For people who are setting out to build a computer for the first time, there's a lot of information on this site about how to choose an appropriate set of components. But after searching for a while, I couldn't find that much about actually assembling the components once you've got them. Having gon…
Shrink a .sparseimage
I have a that occupies 90GB of space on my hard drive despite only having 30GB of files in it. How can I reclaim the empty space used by the and compact the file?