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I recorded a 7 minute video on Windows 10 (WIN-ALT-R) and it ended up being 592MB! On Slackware 14.2, ffmpeg version 3.2.4, I used the following command to reduce the frame rate successively from...

I have a customer using Wordpress on my server. She keeps running into permission issues when updating or installing plugins. So far the only “fix” I’ve found is to chown all files to the web...

Published at LXer: The mod_rewrite is an Apache module that uses a rule-based rewriting engine. It is used for translating and redirecting the requested URL to a new URL. In this post, we will...

How do I restore the ESP on a system (openSUSE 15.1) that was working but now doesn't boot after updating. I tried reinstalling from the DVD but keep getting the message: "/boot/x86-64/loader/linux"...

Published at LXer: During this development cycle, the Ansible project has made significant progress in its goals to make the community and code more welcoming and inclusive. With the release of...

Published at LXer: Gitea is a fast and easy-to-use self-hosted git server written in Go. It includes a repository file editor, project issue tracking, user management, notifications, built-in wiki,...

Hi, I'm using Libreoffice 7.0.4.2 and it's painfully slow compared to previous releases. The response lag is a real issue particularly with Draw & Impress. I'm on sparky linux (=debian...

Hello I have taken a snapshot of / filesystem and I want to roll back the changes I made. How do I do that in btrfs? Can't figure it out. Following are my subvolumes Code: --------- #...

Published at LXer: The kernel team is working on final integration for kernel 5.12. This version was recently released and will arrive soon in Fedora. As a result, the Fedora kernel and QA teams...

Hi, I've set the BIOS option of wake-up by time but the computer turns-on exactly 2 hours afterwards. Both my BIOS clock & the linux clock show the same time. I'm on sparky linux rolling...

I am trying to reuse following python code to check host and port connectivity. https://gist.github.com/betrcode/0248f0fda894013382d7 Code: --------- import socket def...

Published at LXer: In previous articles, we have seen how to work with VirtualBox core features that come with the VirtualBox package. We have seen how to create Guest Virtual Machines, Different...

Since a time ago I'm experimenting problems with dead keys in text processors like LibreOffice Writer, also with FeatherPad, in Telegram desktop official tool, but not in navigators like Google Chrome...

Has anyone any suggestion (or is using) an off the shelf mini pc complete with GFX card (Cheaper than buying a separate cord?), on which I can install Ubuntu and stream Geforce Now games? I...

Published at LXer: TLP is a commandline tool to optimize Laptop battery life in Linux. TLP's default settings are well optimized for saving Linux laptop battery power. Read More......

I am using an XPS13 9300 with xubuntu 20.04 and Xfce desktop. The laptop is connected to the monitor on HDMI1 via a Dell adaptor (See below), which connects to one of the USB C ports on the laptop....

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57009930 Apparently IBM have made a 2nm wafer (of ICs) in their lab. That is not 7nm, not 5nm, but 2nm. The breakthrough is remarkable, if it's real. The...

In python, how can I pass variable as a parameter eg. in db connector? In this example im trying set host as what is defined in: dbhost variable but it does not work. I tried also $dbhost , "dbhost"...

Published at LXer: Apache Spark is an open-source distributed computational framework that is created to provide faster computational results. It is an in-memory computational engine, meaning the...

Hi all, My question is quite general and not quite specific on which log files I'm pointing out to. But does anybody know how I can determine the old .log.1 or .gz files that are listed in my...

Perhaps I did some errors but I have some localization problems. As I am french and use linux in non utf8 mode, I have set LANG=fr_FR in lang.sh and in plasma-localerc. With that I have a french...

Is there maybe some way to be able to keep on manually upgrading the various packages in Mint18? Like: through Synaptic or "apt-get upgrade all" or somesuch in a root terminal?? I've got the latest...

Hello, I'm setting up a Samba DC on the Fedora Server 33 and joined a Windows client to my domain. I want to create a share that just accessible for specific users. I have a "login" group with...

Published at LXer: This guide explains how to setup a shared folder between KVM host and guest virtual machine using Virt-manager in Linux. Read More......

WNP-UA300P-01 usb link works but is not indicated by the LED. It does not flash. What to do on Linux Mint?

Hello, I am fairly new to fortran coding and tried to write a RDF (radial distribution function) code for the analysis where during compilation I am getting out of bound array error for line 168 in...

Published at LXer: Configure a DHCP server and scope to provide dynamic IP address configurations to your network subnet. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/static-dynamic-ip-2)

Published at LXer: Installing a fresh operating system on VirtualBox is easy and can be done in a short time. After that, there are so many steps like installing packages, hardening the OS,...

EndPointsPriority.txt contains>> 0001105 0005074 0079557 Reading from EndPointsPriority.txt and finding that file name in other Directory in .sh This is working >>>>>>>>>>>>

EndPointsPriority.txt contains>> 0001105 0005074 0079557 Reading from EndPointsPriority.txt and finding that file name in other Directory This is working >>>>>>>>>>>>

Published at LXer: The bash Linux shell provides many customization options for the prompt that you can use not only to incorporate various features in the prompt but also to differentiate them...

Published at LXer: Official CPython is slow, but there are many ways to get better performanceFacebook has released Cinder, used internally in Instagram to improve Python performance, while another...

Published at LXer: Registration for the Virtual Event is now Open SAN FRANCISCO, May 5, 2021 – The Open Mainframe Project (OMP), an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the...

I have totally corrupted my update files, and slackware no longer updates anything. I tried to "fix" the update problem. I probably really fouled up by deleting all files in the /var/log/packages,...

I'm running 64-bit Fedora on an HP Stream 11-y0XX. It's got a 32GB hard drive, 1.6-GHz Intel Celeron N3060 processor, Intel Graphics 400, 4GB of RAM. Fedora actually runs really well on this...

Have a multi line file that contains four fields, the first field is a label and the other three are numbers. I need to find the percentage difference between field two and four and if it is greater...

Published at LXer: The UBports Foundation announced a call for testing for their upcoming Ubuntu Touch OTA-17 software update for supported Ubuntu phones, which is slated for release on May 12th,...

Never had this happen before, it just started now. So pretty much as title, when I change the speed of a clip, instead of actually changing the speed, and making it shorter/longer on the time line it...

Hello ALL , Here we go again (I beleive , Maybe the previous culprit was from the "upgrade-all" area ). This line in my script (Yes run from CRON) ... slackpkg -batch=on -default_answer=y...

I am creating a bash script that will start on boot of my slackware-current system, which it does. But it is inserting the rules into iptables not in the desired order, and i think this is due to my...

Published at LXer: The firewall is essential for controlling the flow of network traffic in and out of the Linux server. It enables users to control incoming network traffic on host machines by...

Hello! I have a apache2 / php7.4 / mysql sever on ubuntu 20.04. To prevent me from rebuilding the whole thing again, what is the best way to do a complete nightly backup that can be restored easily?...

Published at LXer: The kill command sends a signal to a process, whose PID is passed along with the command. Alternatively, we can use pkill command, which kills a process based upon name and other...

Hello! I've just switched to 5.12 kernel and find out that now I cannot install even the simplest kernel modules with only module_init/module_exit methods. Like here...

I have a logical volume on an SSD drive that is filled to capacity. Both the VG and the PV are shown as full. I'm thinking I should run fstrim to free-up unused space on the LV. However, the fstrim...

Published at LXer: Over the years, there has been an exponential adoption of Cloud services as organizations seek to tap into the numerous benefits offered by the Cloud to streamline their...

Hi guys, I'm learning linux and have linux mint installed. I'm trying to get filezilla to work over the internet. I have a vsftpd server following this link:...

Hello. Due to a HDD failure, I installed Ubuntu 18.04 on a new disk. I want to install the Google Chrome web browser ele cannot be installed on my computer. I used the commands below to no avail:...

I've run systemctl to disable avahi-daemon.service and avahi-daemon.socket. And yet, they both are running! I suspect that cupsd is responsible, but I don't know how to prove it: ---Quote--- ●...

Published at LXer: The cloud runs largely on Kubernetes, Kubernetes largely runs on Linux, and Linux runs best when it has a skilled sysadmin at the controls. Whether you consider yourself a cloud...