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While trying to document myself about some less known Linux features I found some kernel mailing list discussions that contained a lot of advanced and counter intuitive technical knowledge, sparkled ...
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I'm constantly receiving HostMemoryUnderMemoryPressure alarms from a high-resource Linux server, which are triggered and immediately resolved. The alarm detail indicates a high rate of major page ...
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Many laptops in the educational market still have 1366x768 screens. A lot of programs and websites blindly assume a 1920x1080 screen, and leave important UI elements outside the screen (mostly dialog ...
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Sorry if this has been solved, but I would like to connect some drivers on Linux over I2C, but I only have USB available. I was going to use a FT4232 or FT260 USB to I2C; however, is there is a way to ...
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Why does the following line break the terminal when executed in a non-interactive shell, but doesn't have the same effect when executed in an interactive shell? for i in {1..10}; do sudo -u testuser ...
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I understand that IP address collisions are incredibly rare under IPv6. Most subnets are at least 64bit, meaning that the risk of true random collision is neglegable. However there are circumstances ...
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Job for cups.service failed because the control process exited with exit status error failure 1 code ○ cups.service - CUPS Scheduler Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled; ...
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I went directly to Opera.com and the Download for Linux did NOT have a "Download offline package" option that the other platforms listed did. The Linux Download only showed: "Prefer ...
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I use nethack with ttyrec to archive my funny deaths. My only issue is that nethack uses as much screen space as possible to print log massages. I would like to limit it to only work with 80x24 ...
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I am trying to connect various systems to a SMB share of a USB drive that is connected to a TP-Link router (TP-Link AC1750) and is shared as //192.168.0.1/sda1. Using the command (run as ROOT user): ...
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I am trying to ping several IP addresses / hostnames, and determine whether any of them respond. Starting from this question, I'm using the echo host1 host2 host3 | xargs -n1 -P0 ping -c1 -w2 approach....
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I'm using doas for privilege escalation together with a command-line program that calls into either sudo or doas (OpenDoas on Linux, this program does not support BSDs) for authentication when it ...
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What is the difference between chmod 755 and chmod 775?
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rsnapshot / rsnapshot.conf.default.in now has quite a few settings of the form @setting@, but there's no indication anywhere what those settings decode to. For example @CMD_CP@ doesn't seem to be ...
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I'm exploring qemu system emulation with custom-built Linux kernels, starting with mips. To start, I'm trying to get to the point of the kernel simply panicking before I add a rootfs, but I can't even ...
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