Comment by Chris on Support for usb 3.0?
Why a -1 with no comment? Is there something wrong about this post?
View ArticleComment by Chris on When do su and sudo use different passwords?
I dont like "su -" as it changes my cwd.
View ArticleComment by Chris on Kernel segmentation fault (core dumped), how to diagnose?
I just got into work and was able to ssh to the machine, this machine has been running for 6+ months and this just started happening in the last week. It would be ashame if its a memory issue as I have...
View ArticleComment by Chris on Video player that uses multiple CPU/GPU cores in Linux?
This has nothing to do with CPU and should be directed to the grahics card for native rendering/decoding. For example, my zotac hd-id11 has an nvidia ion on it and a intel atom CPU, when I play 1080p...
View ArticleComment by Chris on Display transfer speed when performing "cp" from the...
Very interesting, although not worth the effort. I merely would like cp <source> <dest> to provide a rate similar to how it would report transfer rate using the GUI. Not worth the effort to...
View ArticleComment by Chris on How can I move to the bottom of a document using the pico...
How do you place those "buttons" into your answer?
View ArticleComment by Chris on How to install Fedora from an ISO on a USB?
live usb creator was buggy for me using a x64 desktop to build a x86 xbmc build, usually I use a windows desktop with usb creator as it seems to be less problematic than linux versions of it. good...
View ArticleComment by Chris on How to install Fedora from an ISO on a USB?
On a VM is easier you do not need a usb. Most VM software allows install directly from iso. YOu can create a virtual dvd-rom, mount iso to it and mount rom on boot of your new VM, the rest is installing.
View ArticleComment by Chris on What is the most complete MS Word alternative?
XP can run 2007 Office and you can run an XP virtual machine with 512 ram. With computers today shipping with 2+ Gbs of ram, this seems to be a fine option.
View ArticleComment by Chris on Good graphics card for TV-Out
So by TV-out what exactly do you mean? Coaxial output? Would hdmi/dvi out suffice as LCDs have Hdmi and some you can find with dvi. ?
View ArticleComment by Chris on Support for usb 3.0?
Its not about "explicit" support but more of is it worth for example paying for a usb 3.0 enclosure for external hard drive. I am asking more "do the costs outweigh the benefits" for moving to USB 3.0...
View ArticleComment by Chris on Display transfer speed when performing "cp" from the...
Interesting that this is marked as a duplicate of a question asked 3 years later?
View ArticleAnswer by Chris for Linux partition table
open up a terminal and list your drives first:sudo fdisk -loutput similar to this: Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylindersUnits = cylinders of 16065 *...
View ArticleAnswer by Chris for Grabbing the extension in a file name
$ echo "thisfile.txt"|awk -F . '{print $NF}'Comments on this here: http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/short-tip-get-file-extension-in-shell-script/
View ArticleAnswer by Chris for Fedora vs. Ubuntu installation
Ubuntu install will be basically boot from live cd/usb stick, click through some GUI screens and you are done.Only thing to mind is the partitioning which if you want a clean install without dual...
View ArticleTunnel traffic through another machine over ssh
I want to be able to route a portion of my traffic through another machine over SSH. For example, is it possible to browse the web through the ssh tunnel and also browse the web through your LAN...
View ArticleAnswer by Chris for How to set default file permissions for all folders/files...
I found it: Applying default permissionsFrom the article:Set the setgid bit, so that files/folder under <directory> will be created with the same group as <directory>chmod g+s...
View ArticleHow to set default file permissions for all folders/files in a directory?
I want to set a folder such that anything created within it (directories, files) inherit default permissions and group. Lets call the group "media". And also, the folders/files created within the...
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