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Crypto AG owned by CIA.
Interesting article. Crypto AG owned by CIA. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/
Install stops & shows blank screen
G'day to you all, I've been using Linux Mint 19.2 for about a month now after installing it on an old Dell laptop. I'm really enjoying it & decided I would install it on my new PC and that is...
macb:GEM doesnt support hardware ptp
Hi, i am getting the meassge as macb:GEM doesnt support hardware ptp and all my networking things stopped working.I am not able to find out the possible reason and work around to ressolve this
HELP: upgrading pulseaudio on Slackware64 14.2 to what's available on -current
has anyone updated pulseaudio on their Slackware64 14.2 system to the latest available on -current? I feel like this may solve my audio issue with the Audioengine HD3 speaker/DAC, but am weary of...
LXer: How to install Fedora/RHEL/CentOS via kickstart on an existing LUKS device
Published at LXer: Kickstart installations let us easily script and replicate unattended or semi-unattended installations of Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS. The instructions needed to...
Why is nfs-common.service masked?
I have just updated my LinuxMint 19.03 system and find I cannot access files on my nfs box. Until now access was good. Now I get Code: --------- $ sudo mount /mnt/NetShare/data/ [sudo]...
Is it possible for two raspberry Pi's to communicate over ethernet?
Hi, I have two raspberry Pi's. One is running slackware as a file server, and the other is running Raspbian with Kodi. The reason for this is that I cannot get Kodi running on the slackware...
AMD Ryzen 3rd gen compatibiluty
Good morning all, I built my new machine on Sunday and I'm going to install a system too. It's built on a Ryzen 5 3600 cpu, and rx 590 graphics, MSI b450a pro main board and xmp overclock for...
Disable host from capturing super key combinations [VirtualBox]
Hello, I've been playing with arch linux for a few days in Virtualbox. I'm trying to set up my own DE using bspwm, tuning my config files and all of that to maybe take the step and finally...
LXer: Python if..else Statement
Published at LXer: Decision making is one of the most fundamental concepts of computer programming. Python supports the common flow control statements found in other languages, with some...
LXer: Freespire 6.0 Released
Published at LXer: Today is another great day for the Freespire development team, as we announce the release of Freespire 6.0. This release is our FOSS solution, with no binary-only drivers or...
Cairo-Dock - any way to make it work in KDE?
I have installed Cairo-Dock on Manjaro KDE, and currently there are following issues: * opening folders from the dock doesn't work * opening anything from either stack addon or sub-docks doesn't...
cannot update ddns from client.
hi to all, I've centos7.5 as server and client and one centos6.10 client. I know that this question is much simmilar to another question asked by me but it is slightly diffrent and I am asking this...
Samsung DP700A3D dualboot
I have been given a Samsung DP700A3D which I now wish to dualboot but cannot find the keyboard combination to allow booting from the Debian CD which I already have. Is installing from a CD the way...
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS not working on my MSI EX460 laptop
I am a newbie in this linux thing... Though I have been in and out of Ubuntu years ago to try it out. Right now, I plan to install one in my laptop but when I try Ubuntu 18.0 LTS it stops where the...
LXer: What's the source of sluggish career advancement for Linux system administrators?
Published at LXer: Has your Linux sysadmin career stalled? Take this poll to find out the source. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/career-advancement-poll)
Can't run Firefox from chroot
I want to run firefox from chroot directory. I copy firefox installation files which i get by running 'sudo dpkg -L firefox', then i copy the shared libraries which i get by running 'ldd...
Strange USB behavior with Lubuntu
Hey guys. I'm having a difficult time with all my USB devices on a fresh install of Lubuntu 19.04. I have been using a WN111v2 USB wireless card on my windows drive for years, but I am having trouble...
interface
hi, why is recomended to use wicked ifup instead ifup ?
LXer: Glances (All in One Place) - Advanced Real Time System Performance Monitoring Tool for Linux
Published at LXer: 2DayGeek: Glances is a best alternative to top/htop command on Linux. If you have never tried it before, you can try it now. Read More......
LineageOS-x86 broke android-x86 GRUB2 on external hdd dual boot
My notebook has an internal HDD with Windows 10 Pro, which I want to leave untouched as far as possible This is question is about installing android-86 on an external HDD I also have a 500 GB...
LXer: SparkyLinux 2020.02 Brings More Goodies from Debian GNU/Linux 11 “Bullseye”
Published at LXer: The SparkyLinux project released today SparkyLinux 2020.02, the second update to the semi-rolling version of this Debian-based, desktop-oriented operating system. Read More......
LXer: Music composition with Python and Linux
Published at LXer: I met Brendan Becker working in a computer store in 1999. We both enjoyed building custom computers and installing Linux on them. Brendan was always involved in several...
Linus Tech Tips interviews PIA VPN provider after merge with Kape tecnologies
Links to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOjOA9tWs7U https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=vOjOA9tWs7U https://www.invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=vOjOA9tWs7U In my opinion they were dodging...
LXer: OpenShot 2.5.0 Free Video Editor Adds Hardware Acceleration, Blender 2.8 Support
Published at LXer: OpenShot, a free and open source video editor, was updated to version 2.5.0 with some significant improvements like hardware encoding and decoding support, much faster keyframe...
Windows won't boot after installing Ubuntu alongside it
Hello! Originally I had the same problem about a year ago. I followed some guide to dual boot Ubuntu, but Windows refused to boot, caused a lot of problems, and eventually I just abandoned Windows...
LXer: Playing Music on your Fedora Terminal with MPD and ncmpcpp
Published at LXer: MPD, as the name implies, is a Music Playing Daemon. It can play music but, being a daemon, any piece of software can interface with it and play sounds, including some CLI...
SSD drives configuration
I been looking into these drives for a bit now thinking of trying one with a Debian based distribution. When I did the search installing ssd Debian I got so many hits. I finely looked at these two...
Using freefile to file taxes
I'm thinking of using freefile this year. Has anyone experience with any of the choices? I have a bunch of entries for an 8995 I'd rather not do myself.
Tried to install standard Firefox (non-ESR), but can't create a desktop launcher
I realized that the Firefox version that comes pre-installed with Debian 10 is the ESR and not the regular one, so I wanted to get it in order to get the newest features. I followed this...
LXer: How To Change Apache Default Port To A Custom Port In Linux
Published at LXer: Change Apache default port to a custom port on CentOS, Ubuntu Linux Read More......
LXer: OpenShot 2.5 Open-Source Video Editor Adds Hardware Acceleration
Published at LXer: Jonathan Thomas, the creator of the OpenShot, released over the weekend a new major version of his open-source and cross-platform video editor, OpenShot 2.5. Read More......
LXer: Top hacks for the YaCy open source search engine
Published at LXer: In my article about getting started with YaCy, I explained how to install and start using the YaCy peer-to-peer search engine. One of the most exciting things about YaCy,...
Slackware Live Request
I like Slackware Live. A handy tool. Thank you Eric! Perhaps inxi (http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/system/inxi/?search=inxi) could be added? A useful tool with any Live ISO. I used...
LXer: dutree – reclaim precious hard disk space
Published at LXer: dutree is a command line tool to analyze disk usage. It’s written in the Rust programming language. It’s free and open source software. How does it compare to other disk usage...
LXer: How to Check and Monitor CPU utilization on Linux
Published at LXer: As a Linux administrator, it’s important to keep an eye on how your server (or servers) is performing. One way to measure its performance is to track the CPU usage. This will...
vCenter vSphere 6.5 and DNS troubleshooting
Hello Everyone, We are running a virtualized vSphere 6.5 environment. We have vCenter server running on Windows server 2016. Recently we faced issues in our vcenter. All our ESXI hosts went to a...
Removing hostnames from /etc/hosts with Bash
Hello, I'm trying to remove hostnames beginning with ^nas and ^fas from /etc/hosts but for some reason, it's not working. I think in this script, I either added something or needs to be removed. Here...
LXer: Bash Sequence Expression (Range)
Published at LXer: The Bash sequence expression generates a range of integers or characters by defining a start and the end point of the range. Read More......
Are direcotories saved in the page cache?
I understand that the dentry cache holds directory structure, and when a file that is not in the dentry cache is accessed, the directory structure is read from disk. Since directories are just...
fvwm 2 can't access desktop menu
I thought I'd use fvwm 2 as I like the look and feel of it but upon accessing the desktop, it seems I can't access my programs or applications through the GUI. Left clicking on the desktop brings...
LXer: Linux uniq Command Usage and How It Differs from Sort -u
Published at LXer: In this article we discuss using the uniq command to print or remove adjacent duplicated lines. We also discuss the different between uniq and sort -u, which are often compared...
Palemoon on Youtube?
I'm on palemoon-28.8.1. Any hint why youtube is telling me to update, because they won't be supporting it much longer?
HDMI audio on Current
I can't get sound to go down the hdmi cable. I seem to have this issue back in Slackware Current. I've had it before, I had a mega-thread in 2015 on sound, but I can't find it in a thread search....
A script to standardize web bookmarks?
It is very interesting that there are solutions as sophisticated for something as simple as *web bookmarks*, most of the code closed that if. But there is nothing *multi-platform and open source*...
Best 17.3" laptop for Linux in 2020?
Hi all, I have a decent 16" laptop that is circa 2009 and weights over 6 pounds, but it may soon be time for an upgrade, as it is slow and the battery is not working well. Is there a really good...
Minimal Application Specific Android?
While am new to Linux have used Windows for a while. With Windows I inherited old PC hardware with Windows XP so from the beginning started checking how to reduce Windows bloatware. There are a...
LXer: Linus Torvalds Kicks Off the Development of Linux Kernel 5.6
Published at LXer: Linus Torvalds has released today the first RC (Release Candidate) milestone of the upcoming Linux kernel 5.6 series, kicking off the one and a half months long development...
BL 5.1 Legacy - How to add 'Time and Date' and 'Users and Groups' to menu, please?
I'm running BL 5.1 64bit on my notebook. There are the two entries, I mentioned in the subject. Since I'm also running a BL 5.1 on my little netbook (but the 32bit version), I wanted to add these...
Powershell for Linux
Anyone here have much experience with Powershell on Linux? Most specifically, running Powershell on Linux against Windows 2016 servers? My issue: I have a current working set of Powershell of...
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