Feeling relieved about upgrade from ext3 to ext4
I recently found out that some wikipedia info about ext4 disadvantages was out of date and that it is in mode times probably a good choice over ext3 in most cases.Anyways, this is relevant because I had formatted my digital audio workstation partition as ext3, which is still a great invention, but i...
Won't connect to ethernet
Hi, I'm ru ing Ubuntu Server on the Raspberry Pi using the ARM version of the OS. I'm ru ing the Raspberry Pi in headless as I don't have a monitor to plug it into. I ran into a problem a few hours ago when I was setting up a LEMP stack. I installed Nginx, PHP, and MariaDB using headless by co ectin...
[all variants] How to scan downloaded files for Linux malware?
I've been using ClamAV (with added anti-hackingteam and LinuxMalwareDetect databases) to scan downloaded files for Linux malware and Windows malware... or so I thought, until I read this post by DuckHook. I do most of what DuckHook suggests and some other things too (like sandboxing and VMs), but st...
Account deletion and scrambling
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Improve locate search
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[ubuntu] snaps wiped out - now needs email and email password
On yakkety, ubuntu-desktop I was trying a snap experiment and noticed that all my snaps were gone... and it advised me that I had to login with my e-mail and my e-mail password!!!! oh .. ok .. mayby it wants my SSO password.Anyways .. this is really wierd. so much time I am spending with unity8 I ha...
Dual Boot Prep
Motherboards that have UEFI boot systems usually have hard drives with GPT partitioning. With GPT there is no limit to the number of primary partitions which is a big improvement on the older BIOS boot system motherboards with MBR partitioning that limited the number of primary partitions to 4. Forc...
[ubuntu] terminal question
when I open a terminal my prompt says: "greg@greg-System-Product-Name:~$". There was a time when greg was good enough, then something else and, now, this. At the same time, when I am in files, there is no problem in that my home directory is /home/greg/ I don't understand why everything isn't as pre...
need help with boot-repair
I've got a system that dual-boots LinuxMint 17.3 and Win7.I moved the Linux partition with gParted, then ran boot-repair to make sure booting would work.BootRepair did not offer a boot repair option, just the creation of a BootInfo summary.Here is that: http://paste2.org/pGxw7CC4Anyone have any idea...
Killed my computer after upgrading
Okay, so I got a message to upgrade to 16.04. I hit OK and it went through the process. Upon restart, there was no cursor (I think it was invisible). I read somewhere to switch from lightgdm to gdm, and so I did. And this did bring the cursor back. However, upon restart, I get to the Ubuntu screen w...
[Unity8] funny &wierd stuff with libertine containers
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[ubuntu] Crontab Log
Folks,I manage a girlfriend's Ubuntu 14.04 remotely using ssh and on occasions VNC. For some reason every so often her computer loses wifi co ection and I have to call and get her to reco ect. This it does fine.To try and keep co ection alive I decided to enter sudo crontab -e and enter the followin...
Ubuntu PC has slow network speeds
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clementine, bodhi, smb and symlinks
i've got clementine, im using some sort of bodhi linux, ive got a windows box sharing music, i can can use a file manager to see the music but vlc , clementine, etc can't see the music, or the shares, etc.i need to know how to update clementine and create symlinks.new to ubuntu is a bit of a streach...
[ubuntu] 14.04 to 16.04 upgrade frozen.
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Ubuntu 16.04 doesn't see my usb periphials
Trying to plug in, via usb, zoom Q4N video camera as an SD card reader, but this is what it tells me...Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/burt/Q4N_SD: Command-line `mount -t "exfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,io charset=utf8,namecase=0,errors=remount-ro,umask=0077" "/dev/sdb1...
bootloader
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[other] can no longer print_ Canon Pixma MG 3150
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