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LXer: When to choose C or Python for a command-line interface
Published at LXer: This article has a simple goal: to help new Python developers with some of the history and terminology around command-line interfaces (CLIs) and explore how to write these useful...
Wifi not working on one computer, but working on another computer with same distro
Hi I have a HP Pavilion Notebook - 17-g161no. I have tried booting several versions of linux on it (live image on usb). But the wifi doesn't work. The network manager says that wifi is enabled, but...
LXer: AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager
Published at LXer: Windows bod acknowledges project's influence on WinGetMicrosoft's Andrew Clinick, a group program manager in the Windows team who is involved with the development of the WinGet...
How is microSD error 123 felt like?
As for gdisk is gone against opening the card, which progs could be helpful to deal with the error ‘‘123’’? Code: --------- [hd_scania@hd-scania ~]$ sudo gdisk /dev/sdb GPT fdisk (gdisk) version...
[SOLVED] bash escape dash
I get this error: Code: --------- $ printf "-4" bash: printf: -4: invalid option printf: usage: printf [-v var] format [arguments] ---------
Different output returned from same endpoint
I'm doing the same openssl test from two Linux servers to the same host iDRAC endpoints but the endpoint output provides different results depending on the source server. One server returns...
LXer: Linux Lite 5.0 Officially Released, It’s Based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Published at LXer: The Linux Lite 5.0 distribution is out now and looks to be the most feature-rich and complete release to date of this Ubuntu-based OS . Read More......
Book on as
Hi, I am looking for a book on (g)as (gnu assembler). The only book I can find so far is https://www.amazon.com/Using-As-Assembler-Dean-Elsner/dp/0595149200 However no place on the internet seems...
having an ICEauthority problem can't enter password
start up laptop with no problem see my user name on screen with no problem but when clicked on it no appearance of a place to enter a password but a notice of this "ICEauthority" problem tried...
LXer: Raspberry Pi: Here's what's new in latest operating system update
Published at LXer: New updates have been rolled out to Raspberry Pi's 32-bit operating system, which is now simply called Raspberry Pi OS. Read More......
Who is www-data?
I am trying out my new contact form, contact2.html on my localhost I am the only user on this laptop. The contact2.php writes to: ---Quote--- $path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] ....
tcpdump by uid
is there a way to dump all the IP traffic from a given userid? i can do the dumping as root. i can give either the user name string or the user id number as appropriate. the purpose is to collect...
LXer: EA open sources code from Command & Conquer Remastered Collection
Published at LXer: As they said they would late last month, it appears Electronic Arts have gone ahead and uploaded some of the source code for the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection. Read...
Adding a second GPU
I'm planning on adding a second Quadro GPU to my system and am doing some prep. I'm currently running Arch Linux. The GPUs will be identical. I'm also using the latest NVIDIA driver. I'm currently...
FIFine T668 USB Microphone Under Debain 10.3
I purchased a FIFine T669 USB Microphone when COVID-19 forced me to work from home two and a half months ago. It works extremely well on the Windows 10 laptop provided by the company. Well, now I...
Trying to whitelist an application in Tails
Im trying to whitelist an appimage game in Tails that uses networking for multiplayer (so it should not run through Tor; latency is too bad). I discovered Tails use the 'clearnet' user to run the...
Finding your computer name for netconfig
Hello, new here. I have Slackware 14.2 installed on a old laptop. I need to find the computer name to configure a dhcp connection. I have configure rc.inet1.conf. IPADDRR[0]="" NETMASK[0]=""...
How to delete my old posts and comments?
I do not see any way to delete my old posts and comments. My old posts and comments are over 10 years ago and irrelevant. I would like to delete them. But I do not see any way to do it. Is it possible?
LXer: How to write a VS Code extension
Published at LXer: Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a cross-platform code editor created by Microsoft for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Unfortunately, Microsoft's version of VS Code is released under...
[SOLVED] Where in the boot process does Slackware set the font size with a graphics card
I hope the title says it all. I have a new (to me) 14" laptop which can do 2560x1440 pixels, but while in X I set it to 1920x1080 which is ok. My problem is that during boot, when slackware discovers...
Need a little Slackbuilds training Re: maintaining patches
I am working on learning how to maintain Slackbuilds packages, and I'm having trouble dealing with patches. I think I understand the basic functionality of diff and patch, but they don't seem to be...
LXer: Use FastAPI to build web services in Python
Published at LXer: FastAPI is a modern Python web framework that leverage the latest Python improvement in asyncio. In this article you will see how to set up a container based development...
LXer: Linux Kernel 5.7 Officially Released, This Is What’s New
Published at LXer: Linus Torvalds announced the general availability of the final release of the Linux 5.7 kernel series, a major branch that brings numerous new features and improvements. Read...
Debian 10.4 crash, syslog.1 inside - need help reading the data
My system froze after being idle for a while. I don't think what apps I had open is important but if it is then I'll add that later. When I tried interacting I could move the mouse around but clicks...
sbopkg not showing some packages installed from Alien Bob
I am running 14.2, stable, with the lastest version of sbopkg and have found that sbopkg has a habit of not showing installed packages. It seems to be packages taken from Alien Bob's that don't...
I can not see
pls help¡¡ i did a dist-upgrade and my kali looks like this now https://ibb.co/74QmXS9
LXer: How to Format a USB Disk as exFAT on Linux Graphically and Command Line
Published at LXer: This tutorial teaches you how to format a USB disk in exFAT format on Linux systems. Both GUI and command line methods have been discussed. Read More......
Need help with OpenVPN
Ya got a Newbie here. Just installed OpenVpn on SurfShark VPN and not getting the help I need from them on this topic. I am not clear on command to start OpenVPN VIA Terminal nor do I know how to...
Back into the fold
Back to full-time Linux. This should be fun. Mark
LXer: What is open source project governance?
Published at LXer: In many discussions of open source projects and community governance, people tend to focus on activities or resources like "speaking for the project" or "ownership of the web...
Economis of mining Virtual Currency.
I thought this was the best of several possible places to put this. Moderators, if you disagree, shift it. People have said that it's not economical to have a pc mine Bitcoin or other virtual...
I seem to have downloaded two versions of python and have some file conflicts
I had 3.7,iirc, then tried to install 3.4. Because the game engine that is a Game Cube emulator. Lutris is on top then dolphin-emu needs it to to use python 3.4. I have absolutely no other need for...
LXer: Nitrux 1.2.9 Is Out with KDE Plasma 5.18.5 and Linux 5.6, Based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Published at LXer: Ubuntu-based Nitrux 1.2.9 is now available for download as a new stable release of this desktop-oriented distribution featuring the beautiful NX Desktop and MauiKit applications....
Camera is not found by messenger port.
I use messenger (fb) thrue messenger port. The program does not find my camera to take pictures. Videochat not tried yet. Camera works perfect with cheese. There is a way around, only when someone...
LXer: Install phpMyAdmin With LAMP Stack On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Published at LXer: This step by step guide explains how to install phpMyAdmin with LAMP stack on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server operating system. Read More......
The ultimate malware?
Distrowatch has just reviewed autotux (https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20200601#autotux). So, you make the usb stick, plug it in, and (if your computer is set to run software on a newly...
Where is the MX Linux source code?
Hi everyone, I'm planning to switch from Microsoft to Linux. MX Linux seems for my older machine the most fitting right now. I searched but couldn't find their source code. Where can I find it? The...
LXer: Rust marks five years since its 1.0 release: The long and winding road actually works
Published at LXer: Programming language ready to leave the wilderness for mass adulation. The Rust programming language celebrated its fifth birthday on Friday and says the future looks bright.… ...
creating 2 volume group from 2 different disk with same size.
Hello all, I am attaching 2 disks to my vm machine which are having same size like e.g 2GB or some time size will be different. I want to create two different volume group from those 2 disks. I...
LXer: Could it be? Really? The Year of Linux on the Desktop is almost here, and it's... Windows-shaped?
Published at LXer: Windows Subsystem for Linux to gain out-of-the-box support for GUI apps, GPU chippery. Build Microsoft's Build 2020 appears to mark the long-awaited Year Of Linux on the Desktop...
LVM Partition backup and restore - How?
Hello All I'm installing fresh CentOS OS on a new hard disk. I want to take two LVM partitions that I'm currently using and restore them on that new disk. Following are my LVM Partitions: ...
Build of 5.7 looks in obsolete directory
Building 5.7 returns: ---Quote--- make[4]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-slackware-linux/9.2.0/include/stddef.h', needed by '/usr/src/linux-5.6.15/tools/objtool/fixdep.o'. ...
"Maths heavy" Apps?
Saving the long boring explanation, on Arm CPUs much 32bit software does not use the Maths FPU, or uses it very little. So performance sucks on Maths heavy Apps. What is a Maths heavy App? Bitcoin...
[SOLVED] to download files randomly from website
how to download files randomly from website (http://localhost/log/) using bash script. the url contains 100 files like shown below: http://localhost/log/log01.log ...
[SOLVED] Download a files from website with specified range using bash script.
Download a files from website with specified range using bash script. For example a website has a files in following manner: http://localhost/log/log01.log http://localhost/log/log02.log ...
LXer: Ardour goes harder: v6.0 brings 'huge engineering changes' to open-source digital audio workstation
Published at LXer: Dev sticks with elderly GTK+2 GUI toolkit because 'we would gain nothing' by upgrading. The sound-tinkerers among you will be pleased to learn that Ardour 6.0 is out,...
I/O error, dev sr0
Boot messages with 2 empty CDROMs. Debian Bullseye. Kernel 5.6.14-rt7 Everything seems to work. I guess it can be ignored but something must be,.. not right. Same messages for /dev/sr1. The...
Shotcut: Saving Custom Export settings
I export my fullscreen videos with a resolution of 480x360, how do I save this as a custom export setting? (see attached image) Saving as an MLT file doesn't do it. I've asked on Reddit without...
Logrotate ubuntu mongo
Hello I have problem with logrotate because parameter rotate not working :( config logrotate below: /var/log/mongodb/* { daily missingok notifempty rotate 10
x11vnc always running
I'm using Fedora 31 with KDE Does anyone know how to get x11vnc to always run to see the current uesr desktop?
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