aculich

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Manager of computing infrastructure for the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley

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Dec 31	comment	How can I solve this ssh-agent problem? If you're seeing the odd behavior with the `Ctrl+Alt+t` that you set in the Keyboard Shortcuts then I think you're probably experiencing a bug in mdm/MATE. What version of Mint are you running?
Dec 29	comment	How can I solve this ssh-agent problem? well, presuming you use gnome (and I think Mint does by default, so unless you've changed it from the default?) then I think not having your `mate-terminal` inheriting from `gnome-session` is the problem. two questions: 1) what is the output of `pgrep -fl gnome-session` and; 2) what action do you take to actually invoke your terminal? from a menu? from a hot-key binding? or ????
Dec 28	revised	Wireless networking with CentOS added 1348 characters in body
Dec 28	comment	Wireless networking with CentOS Suggesting that people manually edit `/etc/network/interfaces` by hand for their wifi is not very helpful since it is fraught with peril, not to mention being cumbersome since you have to manually change it every time you move to a new SSID or if you want it to be dynamic you have to set up your supplicant by yourself which is not the simplest thing to get right. Just use NetworkManager and click "Available to all users" and the problem is solved.
Dec 28	answered	Wireless networking with CentOS
Dec 28	revised	How can I solve this ssh-agent problem? deleted 4 characters in body
Dec 28	comment	How can I solve this ssh-agent problem? Most desktop Linux systems (Mint included) handle `ssh-agent` properly upon login right out of the box and it is usually roll-your-own things like this that break it. If for some reason your system doesn't handle `ssh-agent`, don't do it by hand. Instead use keychain which is well-designed to handle this and related problems. It also works for BSD (Mac) and other non-Linux systems.
Dec 28	answered	How can I solve this ssh-agent problem?
Dec 27	answered	Kernel socket structure and TCP_DIAG
Dec 26	awarded	Excavator
Dec 26	revised	How to diagnose a reliably unreliable connection? add clarity by removing redundant word in sentence
Dec 26	suggested	suggested edit on How to diagnose a reliably unreliable connection?
Sep 26	awarded	Yearling
Mar 6	comment	List only bind mounts @Gilles I deleted my errant comment to remove confusion. You're right, it is indeed POSIX-compliant. Also now I understand the reason we are seeing different behavior of `mount` and `/etc/mtab`. You are using Debian stable which has the older version of util-linux-ng; I am using Debian testing which has a newer version that no longer seems to have the same `/etc/mtab` behavior, which is maybe why @rozcietrzewiacz did not see `bind` in in `/etc/mtab` if his distribution is also using a newer version?
Mar 6	comment	List only bind mounts @Gilles What `mount --version` are you using that records any `bind` information in `/etc/mtab`? I am using version 2.20.1 and I looked at the latest sources and in neither case do I see bind information recorded anywhere that would allow you to grep for `bind`. On the other hand, what I suggested in my answer does in fact list bind mounts created with `--bind` as well as using the `bind` option.
Mar 6	comment	List only bind mounts @Gilles Actually, you can do this simply using `findmnt \| fgrep [` as explained here.
Mar 6	comment	Can't use exclamation mark (!) in bash? Turning off history expansion altogether is the best advice I've heard all day! History expansion is dangerous and byzantine when there are much better alternatives (incremental history search with `Ctrl-R`) that let you preview & edit your command so you don't blindly fire away with command `!-14` that you though was at `!-12` that, oops, happened to be `rm -rf *`. Be safe. Disable history expansion! Eschew the `!`!
Feb 1	comment	Converting multiple image files from JPEG to PDF format @IlmariKaronen I agree that a Makefile is overkill, but it is nice to have a way to reconvert only the subset of modified files on subsequent runs. I've updated my answer with a way to do that just with `find` so you don't have to resort to a Makefile.
Feb 1	revised	Converting multiple image files from JPEG to PDF format added 987 characters in body
Feb 1	comment	How can I do a “copy if changed” operation? If you want to use your Windows-based editor you can do that quite easily with Shared Folders if you install Guest Additions... but hey, if Cygwin suits you, then who am I to say any different? It just seems a shame to have to jump through weird hoops like this... and compilation in general would be faster in a VM, too.