Comment by spectras on How to move Ubuntu into RAM AFTER booting, whilst...
Or said simply: we cannot guess what you call “common uses”, and it most probably is different from my common uses. And if you don't want to do this effort, and just want “reasonable common uses”, then...
View ArticleComment by spectras on Does swap space have a filesystem?
Good pointing out that, despite not having a file system, it does have a basic structure that allows recognizing what it is. Prevents overwriting another partition by mistake.
View ArticleComment by spectras on "adb devices" command won't detect my 4.4 Android phone
Great answer, allowed my adb to see my OnePlus 2
View ArticleComment by spectras on Does Ubuntu carry over Windows filenames (png, exe,...
@dotancohen> I just tried making a png image named test.txt and clicking it in Dolphin, it correctly opened in gwenview. I don't know where you got your impression from…
View ArticleComment by spectras on Change proccess session
gdb supports a -ex option to feed it commands from script. Should not be too hard to automate.
View ArticleComment by spectras on How do I find out if a PNG is PNG-8 or PNG-24?
@evilSnobu> file is my primary file identification tool and I'm always amazed at how much it can tell even about exotic file formats. Granted, its implementation grew quite a bit since the 80s :)
View ArticleComment by spectras on Ubuntu Machine sharing internet, but won't show up on...
“some may refer to Bridge Mode as Disable DHCP” have any source, because that sounds like complete nonsense?
View ArticleComment by spectras on How to prevent auto-pausing processes in an inactive...
The fact you see the old picture and time does not mean the application was paused. Applications don't draw to the screen, they draw into textures, and the compositor...well...composes them to build...
View ArticleComment by spectras on How would a local government make the switch from...
How about checking Wikipedia? List of Linux adopters. That's only a few but you'll see it does include quite a number of governmental organisations.
View ArticleComment by spectras on How to compile a python file?
@yellow01 you are right that the interpreter will need reading permissions once started through the process MestreLion describes. However, chmod +x grants execute, and does not touch existing...
View ArticleComment by spectras on How do I get back files after "mv * .*"?
for x in *; do mv -i "$x" ".$x"; done.
View ArticleComment by spectras on dual boot windows 10 secure boot grub won't boot...
Note that his is not about "learning" to read keys. Those keys are not accessible and will never be. The very purpose of the TPM is precisely to prevent accessing keys from a different environment.
View ArticleAnswer by spectras for Why not design having the softlink (symlink) and...
I think you are confused by the word “link” in “hardlink”/“softlink”. Despite the apparent naming symmetry, those are completely different things.Soft links:If you come from some microsoft background,...
View ArticleAnswer by spectras for Multiple OpenVPN server instances on a single machine
It is, assuming you have static IPs. You simply provide them what address they should listen on in their config file.local a.b.c.dThat line should be missing or commented out by default, causing the...
View ArticleLatest ubuntu install: “Reloc offset is out of the segment”
I am trying to install the latest release of ubuntu, that is 16.04, on a recent machine using UEFI. I am using a USB stick, which worked properly on another computer of mine (so I know the image was...
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