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Published at LXer: Audio components for your computer don’t always produce the quality of sound you want. For instance your laptop speakers may be a bit “tinny” sounding, or a set of speakers for...

Published at LXer: Apache Cassandra[he]#039[/he]s upcoming 4.0 release includes new features to help organizations monitor user activity in the database. These features provide a robust set of...

I looked at the man pages for fork() but still cannot find it. Do I need to download the source code for the complete kernel ? I have the same question for execve I'd like to view the source. I'm...

Published at LXer: Take our poll to let us know what programming language you learned first. Share your earliest programming memories in the comments. Read More......

This is a 'weird' thing I'm seeing with XFCE / thunar (running in Xubuntu 20.04) - I added a new (blank) hard drive to my computer, and I mounted it at /home/user/drive - that all works and the drive...

Published at LXer: DNS cache (or sometimes called a DNS resolver cache) is a small temporary database maintained by the operating systems. This brief guide explains all possible ways to clear or...

Hello, I am not so clear on the partition procedure for preparing the system for L.F.S. and was hoping someone here could help me. I am running Fedora on a 120 GB hard drive, currently Fedora is...

Published at LXer: In previous articles, we already talked about how we can perform local and remote backups using rsync and how to setup the rsync daemon. In this tutorial we will learn a very...

Hi all, apologies for my 1st post here to be on this ridiculous subject. So, apparently the geniuses within the security team in my company decided to use TM Deep Security agent and run it on ALL AWS...

i am using vim. how to paste clipboard memory in "insert mode" i found it to have to "esc" out to normal mode just to do a paste is ridiculous.. there have to be a way to paste clipboard...

i use vim. i have a journal file that i use everyday and constantly on and off. i decided to map a function key to it. how to Code: --------- :e journal.txt G --------- ? what i want to...

Hello peeps. Coming to you live from the great state of Iowa. 30+ years in IT, but this one really has me stumped. I have a server that has been running along just fine. I am not exactly sure...

I opened the same thread 7 days ago. I said I'd try to do it again in 7 more days. I learned how to make a Live instance of Ubuntu use Wayland so that the person could test Ubuntu on Wayland before...

PulseEffects has added dozens, I mean *dozens*, of items to the menu. They don't disappear when you remove PulseEffects - they stay cluttering and I couldn't just delete the source folders on the...

I have a series of webcam photos I want to string together to make a short film. I'm a Slackware user, have used mencoder and ffmpeg. The system is CentOS though. I ran Code: --------- yum...

Published at LXer: The SparkyLinux development team announced today the general availability of SparkyLinux 2020.08 as the August 2020 snapshot of the semi-rolling release based on the Debian...

Published at LXer: ABC is a human readable ascii representation of music notation.* John Chambers posted a brief history of ABC notation and there is a newer history by Chris Walshaw. Unlike...

I feel like I've looked at and turned off every possible setting to stop my desktop's screen from blanking after five minutes. Screensaver is disabled, XFCE4 Power Manager is disabled...and still it...

Okay, I know I can do this: Code: --------- jonke@charlie:~$ ps -ef|grep keyring jonke 6029 1476 0 19:12 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --foreground...

Hi everyone, I recently switched from Windows to Linux(Ubuntu 20.04). I am looking for an open-source pdf reader with multi-tabs option and can handle large files. Looking forward to hear...

Published at LXer: Already a big mover in Foundation projects like Presto, GraphQL, Osquery and ONNX, so why not go all-in? Facebook has upgraded its Linux Foundation membership and by doing so...

Very recently I read about the Vulkan V3D API (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API)) being tested on the Raspberry Pi OS and instantly set about building, installing, and configuring it under...

Published at LXer: Software development can be a very complex process. As the code you write increases in size and complexity, it is important to keep it readable and easy to understand. In open...

Hello, I remember reading how SATA SSDs has writes issues after a period of time before the performance is reduce. Do modern SSDs like the M.2 or pcie type SSDs haves these issues? Thanks

I'm running Debian Buster (recently upgraded) and using Pulse Audio Volume Control. I have headphones connected to my computer (listed as analog internal audio), and I can select them as the output...

Hi, Can someone explain, why kB_rd/s and kB_wr/s different between these 2 pidstat command: pidstat -dl | egrep 'mfs|Command' 08:01:00 AM UID PID kB_rd/s kB_wr/s kB_ccwr/s Command...

Published at LXer: While payments for Firefox search results have brought Mozilla hundreds of millions of dollars annually in the past, a declining number of users has brought those days to an end....

Strange, when I try to boot the laptop, I get these very loud, fast repetitive beeps, like a machine-gun. The laptop won't boot, it just sits there giving these annoying beeps. Fortunately, I can boot...

I was running Debian Jessie and was able to use English, Spanish and Chinese input methods with fcitx. Then yesterday I upgraded to Stretch and then Buster, and I was able to configure the input...

Published at LXer: Nextcloud GmbH announces today the general availability of version 3.0 of the Nextcloud Desktop Client as an important milestone that finally implements enterprise-grade E2EE...

I know very little about networking and I am about to get into it. My first question is Does networking care about uniformity of distro among its nodes? For instance, can I network a...

Official slackbuilds are very tightly integrated with the current Slackware release, so what happens when this changes? It must surely take a long time to check, and if necessary, rewrite all the...

I have been using one debian machine to run one program, without a desktop or windows, now I want to run two programs, and want to install Tabs Window Manager (TWM) to that end. I installed TWM in...

I realize there are already threads regarding the freeze-up or drop of monitor, mouse and keyboard, but I am posting a new thread because I have already pin-pointed the program with the cause. It...

Hey, We run an Apache2 (Apache/2.4.25 (Debian)) Server in a network where connection to the Internet is only allowed through a proxy (squid proxy), which is fine for local use, but our Apache2...

Published at LXer: Red Hat agrees that edge computing is the future and it[he]#039[/he]s getting ready for this next stage in cloud computing with its latest OpenShift release. Read More......

Hi, I use Slackware-current and have been getting issues with Linux kernels 5.4.51-5.4.58. ...

Published at LXer: When the Linux 5.8 Release Candidate opened for testing recently, the big news wasn’t so much what was in it, but its size. As Linus Torvalds himself noted, “despite not really...

Hello all, have installed Linux Mint 20 lately and seem to have a problem with pulseeffects! Had run pulseeffects successfully on previous versions of Mint without problems, installed from the...

Hello everyone, just introducing myself , I'm new to linux and trying to learn

Published at LXer: In the past few years, developers have used RESTful web services over HTTP(s) to expose business functions using an API. The REST API uses server-driven fixed data responses,...

I recently did an install of slackware-current on my laptop. The laptop is somewhat older, So I wanted to keep it lean. Pulseaudio was quite often using 100% cpu, so I used the instructions in...

Published at LXer: Canonical published today a new Linux kernel security update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS systems running the Linux 4.4 kernel packages to address two security vulnerabilities. Read...

Published at LXer: The latest version of BunsenLabs was released just this this month, codenamed Lithium. We downloaded the latest version in order to try it and see how the distribution will...

When I install the "xf86-video-nouveau-blacklist-noarch-1" file on my computer, does that result in the "xorg.conf-vesa" file being ignored when i start or reboot my computer (I use Slackware 14.2...

Published at LXer: Despite rumors to the contrary, Mozilla[he]#039[/he]s Thunderbird e-mail client will live. Read More......

Hi, I have my daily logwatch which I view. In that I see logs on robots was logged in. Below is the content of my robots.txt. ---Quote--- User-agent: * Disallow: / ---End Quote--- Next...

What is KGpg, and how do I prevent it from starting up when I turn on my computer or reboot my operating system (which is Slackware 14.2 (64-bit))?

Published at LXer: Nvidia released today a new version of its proprietary graphics driver for UNIX platforms, Nvidia 450.66, which adds support for some recent Nvidia GPUs and some bug fixes. ...

Here is the problem screenshot: [img]https://imgur.com/qeL1xPI.png[/img] Screenshot attached.