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I've got a Lenovo G50 running Slackware14.2 that is giving me grief. Traceroutes to sites I'm visiting shows latency in the ~20ms range, yet page loading is s-l-o-wwww. Concurrent Wireshark sessions...

I ask because slackpkg tells me there is a new kernel available: 4.4.190. I assume this is to provide protection against spectre. Now most distros, when told to "upgrade" a kernel, actually install...

Using an Xbox one controller, how well would it work in Linux regarding latency over Bluetooth? In windows it requires using the Microsoft Bluetooth receiver, is this also necessary in Linux and would...

I've got a Lenovo G50 running 14.2 that is giving me grief. Traceroutes to sites I'm visiting shows latency in the ~20ms range, yet page loading is s-l-o-wwww. Concurrent Wireshark sessions show...

I am running Ubuntu 19.04 (Mate). I want to copy the directory /usr/lib/rstudio onto my usb stick. "lsusb" shows the USB as "Device 006". "sudo fdisk -l" shows 2 entries. "Disk /dev/sdb:...

Published at LXer: As a system administrator, creating partitions on Linux for your disks is a very common task. You may want for example to add some extra space to some directories on your...

Hi. I have made a simple but working sh script for converting png images to webp images using the cwebp command, because afaik the webp command itself can only handle one file at a time. Code:...

Published at LXer: There are hundreds of different Linux distributions, each meeting*the unique needs of its users. This*diversity of distributions is what makes Linux the preferred operating...

Hello In Linux, there might exist a number of alternative programs available to choose from for core utility functions. Some examples might help explain and demonstrate what I'm thinking of: ...

Before I went to bed last night I came up with the brilliant idea of trying out current. I have been running 14.2 for about two weeks now and everything have been working just fine, so ofc I needed...

Hello, on a linux redhat 7 * I created a service for a specific application. When I start or stop my service via the command systemctl start monservice and systemctl stop monservice I have no...

Hello, on a linux redhat 7 * I created a service for a specific application. When I start or stop my service via the command systemctl start monservice and systemctl stop monservice I have no...

Hello everyone I have a Debian 8 system and i wanted to install an ftp server using vsftp I wanted to use ssl on the server and it was working ok using local users What i wanted was not to use...

Published at LXer: In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at a machine learning tool from Netflix, Microsoft[he]#039[/he]s election software bug bounty, a cost-effective...

Published at LXer: On Linux, hidden files are files that are not directly displayed when performing a standard ls directory listing. Hidden files, also called dot files on Unix operating systems,...

MySql57 table name: streams field name: stream_source Hey guys, Im trying to edit about 235 weblinks inside a small database.

Published at LXer: Agile has become the default way of developing software; sometimes, it seems like every organization is doing (or wants to do) agile. But, instead of trying to change their...

I kind of miss having horizontal scrolling since leaving Windows. With different mice used and different Linux distros I noticed that there is no horizontal auto scrolling in Linux, just vertical auto...

Published at LXer: This post is about enabling MySQL auto suggest and autocomplete using a small utility called mycli. Once installed, it enables users auto complete previous used commands, also...

---Quote--- The United States' nuclear arsenal will no longer rely on a computer system that uses eight-inch floppy disks ---End Quote--- *Whew!* ---Quote--- the disks are more widely used...

I'm learning to code and using mongodb as backend db. Here's the code: Code: --------- var bodyParser = require("body-parser"), mongoose = require("mongoose"), express ...

Published at LXer: Dash to Panel, an icon taskbar for Gnome Shell, was updated to version 24, bringing support for vertical panel orientation (left or right of monitor), the ability to update the...

Hi ... Never used Linux before or do I really understand it much but I was hoping there one that looks like windows...

Hello... I'm curious if there are any distro like windows? So far I have try Kubuntu, Ubuntu, and Mint but all these I don't like the icons/folders. I'm looking for a desktop environment that looks...

Fedora 30. How do I check the Health of the Hard Drive in Fedora ? I'm experience some problems in the latest kernel version when booting. Gets to the point of no Signal and hangs up when Booting,...

After much tinkering, and completely swapping the Bluetooth module, I was finally able to get the keyboard to work in Kubuntu on my Dell XPS M2010. The idea is a dual boot system with Windows XP for...

Hi, I have just started to use Linux and I am trying to write an if else statememt. the conditon I want to use is if the input from the user contains any number it will say one thing and if it does...

Published at LXer: Topics covered in this episode: Ubuntu 19.10 Adding ZFS Support, Project Trident Ditches FreeBSD For Linux, KDE Plasma 5.17 Released, System76 Gets Coreboot Read More......

All is in the title, I'd like to change the background of the login/lockscreen of Deepin. If someone could help me please :'( *I'm new on linux, I am not very familiar with the Terminal but i'm a...

Hi! I've been fiddling with wordpress a loooong time and every time I have to give it extra access to directories that the installation will not set correctly. For an example that will let me know...

rss2email is not working for me. slackware 14.2. crashes with Code: --------- cause: sendmail exited with code 65 --------- so i'm guessing its a sendmail error. but sendmail works on my...

I would like to compile Dell laptop module kernel 4.8.9 ---Quote--- make dell-laptop cc dell-laptop.c -o dell-laptop dell-laptop.c:18:26: fatal error: linux/module.h: No such file or...

Published at LXer: If you've ever used a spreadsheet application, then you know that rows can be sorted by the contents of a column. For instance, if you have a list of expenses, you might want to...

It's take me over a week, but I've finally been able to get a Kali Live USB to connect with my Android phone and connect to the internet. I'm going to take a few days off from "learning Linux" and...

Hi all, Nowadays when I google Linux related questions and issues, I can't help but notice that *a lot* of results are on either StackOverflow or Reddit. Has the advent of these sites...

Published at LXer: GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton released a new version of his ExTiX Linux distribution, based on Canonical's recently released Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) operating system. Read...

Hola, I know next to nothing about Linux other than I use a user friendly ubuntu-something-or-other a busy out-of-town friend set up for me on a mini laptop which I from time to time enter my...

I recently have got to install NoScript on one browser, and could no longer connect to the 'quick links' tab. Having a look, I found scripts from * linuxquestions.org * Thequestionsnetwork.org *...

Can this be done? I had /home on a separate disk/partition and the SSD died, on a nearly new machine. The root install is still intact. Since I lost a few weeks' worth of files since my last...

When using Nautilus it is constantly asking me for my password before allowing access to NFS shares. Most NFS client setups say to mount NFS shares as nobody.nogroup I sometimes see the NFS...

I consolidated a lot of files+folders into one large 300 GB SOURCE folder. Then used copy to backup the 300GB to TARGET. Can I run rsync now from source to target ? WITHOUT it re-copying the...

I'm wondering what browser security addons work for Firefox on my S7 Edge phone & Nexus Tablet. For a while, I got one phone text per month (I suspect through my provider) with a link to some dodgy...

Published at LXer: PhpPgAdmin is an open-source web administration interface used for managing PostgreSQL databases. PhpPgAdmin is written in PHP and it makes the administration of PostgreSQL...

im a newb.. and ive already tried searching for an answer on her and cant find it but if you update your system does it update everything including your internet browser im currently using firefox...

Published at LXer: The Linux file system comes originally from UNIX and thus follows UNIX traditions. This is why for instance it uses the forward slash instead of the back slash as in Windows....

wanted ti try Linux Mint Debian Edition LMDE3, and download the iso, started it in virtual box in windows. it started Live, so far so good, then clicked Install, and chose my language swedish, now...

Hi, when I start my CentOS 7 through VMware workstation, I got message on "Low Disk Space". But when I run "df -h", I got these responds: Code: --------- user02@localhost ~]$ df -h Filesystem ...

Hi altogether, I´ve been using the remote maintenance software *anydesk* lately to help a friend of mine with her laptop. Everything was going smoothly when suddenly my anydesk window crashed....

Published at LXer: PostgreSQL, often known simply as Postgres, is an open-source general-purpose object-relational database management system. This tutorial walks you through the steps of...

Is it just me or does Stdin seem to have no real world application? I keep watching the videos but most don't cover stdin. Some use it in a way I just can't seem to wrap my head around. The code is :...