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comment lspci machine-readable format (-vmm) does not show a kernel Module/Driver line
Feel free to accept your own answer, as it's actually accurate :-)
Apr
20
comment Preventing access to TTY when X is killed
Have you considered vlock -na? That blocks the entire "console display" (-a), so you can't switch to other VTs. -n creates a new VT for vlock, making it possible to use it from X. With this, you'd run vlock -na instead of xscreensaver --lock.
Apr
14
comment Grub does not fit the screen
This can be either a bad, or less than compatible, VGA cable, or simply a need for tuning on the monitor side. If it has an autoconfiguration feature, try it while the GRUB menu is showing up. If the normal video mode of your OS looks OK, it is probably just lack of configuration for that mode.
Apr
4
awarded  Revival
Mar
30
comment OpenSuse 12.3 keeps renaming network interfaces?
Which version of udev are you running? Recent versions of udev dropped support for swapping interface names (for example eth1 <-> eth0). If you want to get persistent names, you need to give them names outside of ethX.
Mar
30
comment Convert table in LaTeX
I may be missing something (what kind of macros is that? for LibreOffice Calc or the like?), but what about exporting to CSV and then running sed on the CSV?
Mar
24
comment How to Calculate the Total size of file searched using Find command
I'd guess 120 days ago was in November 2012?
Mar
7
comment Why does Firefox refuse to die despite killing it with pkill -9?
(Also, if you're not aware, signal 9 (-9) is SIGKILL, see man 7 signal.)
Mar
7
comment Why does Firefox refuse to die despite killing it with pkill -9?
SIGKILL can't be handled by programs, so they can't perform any cleanup. In the case of Firefox this probably prevents it from getting rid of the profile lock. If you are just trying to terminate firefox normally, use SIGTERM.
Mar
7
comment Why does Firefox refuse to die despite killing it with pkill -9?
If there is no firefox process running (which is likely the case, after all processes can't ignore SIGKILL), this is likely to be the cause of the error message.
Feb
21
comment Why is it that , to newline is working but newline to , is not working sed?
Peter.O, right I've edited this to include Stephane's suggestions and notes.
Feb
21
revised Why is it that , to newline is working but newline to , is not working sed?
Incorporate Stephane's suggestions
Feb
7
comment How to run Dropbox daemon in background?
Perhaps nohup? unix.stackexchange.com/questions/56495/…
Feb
5
comment Why is it that , to newline is working but newline to , is not working sed?
Yeah, right, I totally forgot that paste could be used here, and it does indeed solve the problem with the last newline (one hack is adding ;echo, but that's more of a dirty hack and still leaves a last ,); as for concatenating a single file, you can see that in the question the OP does mention a single file as an argument to sed...
Feb
5
answered Why is it that , to newline is working but newline to , is not working sed?
Feb
5
comment Howto recursively create PDF thumnbails on linux command line
Also, a way to do the same with find: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/61656/…
Feb
5
answered Howto recursively create PDF thumnbails on linux command line
Feb
5
revised What does sourcing a file mean in a shell?
retag, do not specify "in linux", but "in a shell"; this is not related to linux, this is not related to "command-line", this is related to shells.
Feb
5
comment What does sourcing a file mean in a shell?
And that's why many Gentoo "what if I want the new settings now?" solutions are source /etc/profile, not bash /etc/profile, and why you use source inside .bashrc and .bash_profile if you want to build on additional files.
Feb
4
comment How to use tail -f with grep to show surrounding lines
If you're on GNU/Linux. This is one of those cases where "GNU/Linux" is not only correct, it's also highly adequate ;-)