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How can one automatically check if a PDF contains a section with a specific title?
Task: I have several PDFs. How can one automatically check if a PDF contains a section with a specific title?
Environment: I can use Windows, or command line on Ubuntu.
Motivation: https://...
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Gparted doesn't allow adding free space to partition at end of table
I've dual booted my Ubuntu 22.04 system with a Windows 10. I alloted 100GB initially, but that turned out to be just slightly less than I thought I needed. Now I'm trying to increase the size of my ...
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How can one automatically check if the text in one of the pages of a PDF exceeds the page margin?
I have a PDF with 10 pages. How can one automatically check if the text in one of the pages exceeds the page margin?
Example of a page that exceeds the page margin (I added the vertical black margin ...
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Install Debian 12 alongside Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11
I have a laptop with a succesfully installed Windows11 and Ubuntu 22.04.
I have 2 nvme ssd disks.
I can start Windows11 or Ubuntu 22.04 via dual boot.
On my first nvme disk (named nvme0n1) have the ...
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How can I get back my grub menu after Windows update?
I have a dual boot installation on my laptop, I have both Debian 12 and Windows 11 installed. I updated Windows 11 yesterday and my laptop boots directly into Windows after the update, no grub menu is ...
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Switch partition drive on dual boot
I have a dual boot with Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11. Each partition is on a specific drive, ubuntu is on a sata 500GB SSD and Windows is on a NVMe 1TB SSD.
The windows partition barely use 200GB of ...
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What's inside APPDATA and will it be reinstalled if WSL Ubuntu files accidentally deleted?
I was installing WSL and got some problem with the environment variables after doing nano adding 'export $PATH' to the ~/.bashrc. The WSL no longer able to do 'ls' commands nor doing anything else. ...
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Error while installing Ubuntu in E drive (status : 0xc0000225) [closed]
status: 0xc0000225 in Windows serverI’m in big trouble right now. I need Help. Recently I was attempting a Ubuntu installation on a Windows Server. The Windows Server have 3 drives C , D , E. After ...
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Is Windows / Linux Dual Boot a scam? [closed]
I have searched for this topic a bit on the web without any success.
Is Windows Dual boot + Linux way worse than it is imagined ?
Installaed a dual bot linux mint on a windows 11 computer. THe main ...
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Execute windows exe files on wsl after metadata,umask=022, fmask=111
WSL can't run any exe files after I added options = "metadata,umask=022,fmask=111" to wsl config. The reason I did this is so I can share ssh keys from a parent windows machine. So I would ...
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Share AMD GPU from Windows (Host) to Ubuntu (Guest)
Can't seem to find a solution for this anywhere.
I've got a Windows Host with an AMD GPU (Radeon 6800 XT).
There's software I need to run that requires an AMD GPU but it's only available in Linux.
I ...
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Preserve Windows partitions when computer is not booting from HD and MBR2GPT fails?
On attempting to install Ubuntu alongside an existing Windows installation on the same hard disk, the Ubuntu installer created a mix of MBR and GPT partitioning scheme, and UEFI/BIOS don't find any ...
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Set wsl2 to use host nameserver
I'm using wsl2 on Windows 11, and I recently encountered a problem where when I change networks, the wsl2 dns (nameserver at resolve.conf) address doesn't update, to match, and there for cannot lookup ...
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/dev/kvm in guest Ubuntu running on a Windows host with hyper-v enabled
My question is an extension of this. Basically I enabled "Hyper-V" and "Windows Hypervisor Platform". I did this because I will create a new VM in hyper-v that has GPU passthrough ...
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PTK and GTK where are they stored?
So I know for unicast traffic PTK is used to encrypt and obtain ciphertext; and for multicast traffic GTK is used to encrypt and obtain ciphertext. I know PTK is produced at a 4 way handshake, and ...
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why is ssh-key only used on one system
I had to copy manually my ssh key from a windows system to a headless ubuntu server using scp (because ssh-copy-id isn't a basic command on windows), and I've desactivated password authentication.
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Access \\wsl$\Ubuntu from a different Windows machine on network
I have a Windows 2022 Server, build 23H2 / 22631, and it runs an Ubuntu 22.04 distribution in WSL2.
If I'm on the server itself, I can access the files in this distribution using the \\wsl$\Ubuntu ...
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Create a dual boot with an already existing windows partition
For the past few months I had an ubuntu with main OS and a windows 11 that I used with kvm/qemu. The whole data is on a distinct partition. Now I want to switch back to a dual boot with windows and ...
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Cant boot from ubuntu install media
I have a Surface Pro 7, currently running Windows 11 and want to install Ubuntu as a second OS. I can not get the install media, which I created using rufus on Windows 11, to boot. With the same ...
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Invalid signature detected: Check Secure Boot policy
I had an old setup with Windows 11 and Ubuntu on my Gigabyte X370. I installed Windows with only one SSD in the system, then removed it, installed Ubuntu on another SSD and plugged them both in.
If I ...
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Putty history access weird behavior
I'm using PuTTY v0.78 on a Win10 host, connecting to Ubuntu v22.04. After I've pasted any command into the PuTTY terminal, when I scroll though the history using ↑, I can't scroll up to the prompt ...
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Unable to connect to ubuntu 20.04 on vm from windows
I could not manage to make ssh connection working.
ssh [email protected]
time out…
Port forwarding:
Host ip. Host port gast ip. G-port
0.0.0.0. 2222. 10.0.2.10. 22
Tried with host(...
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ls in Docker on Windows not showing one directory
I'm running Windows Server 2016 Datacenter version 1607 (build 14393.6614) with Docker Desktop Community Version 2.0.0.3 (31259).
I'm running an Ubuntu docker container in an interactive mode with my ...
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VirtualBox Ubuntu webserver 404 error on one host but works fine on other hosts
I have prepared a VM webserver with Ubuntu server to allow a client to view his 2 retired websites on his PC.
The host is Windows, the VM is configured with port forwarding, and this all worked ...
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when does windows 10 check to automatically set the time? [duplicate]
I have the same issue as described in this question. I have a dual boot with windows 10 and ubuntu and every time I start up windows after having used ubuntu, the displayed time is wrong. This is ...
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How to remove Windows' Driver Verifier from Ubuntu in a Windows-Linux Dual Boot system
I have a dual-boot desktop computer with Ubuntu + Windows 11. I foolishly played around with Window's Driver Verifier feature, and when I restarted Windows, it went into an endless cycle of Blue ...
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Safely delete Efi System Partition to allow extension of volume
I installed Ubuntu on a fraction of one of my SSD drives. However, I ended up removing Ubuntu and deleting the space on the partition it was allocating.
Now there's an EFI System Partition between my ...
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Ubuntu not showing in boot menu (Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows)
A couple of years ago, I set up my machine to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu. At that time, it worked as expected and I was able to switch back and forth between Windows and Ubuntu. Today, I tried to ...
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Vagrant in WSL2 unable to run Windows 11 'cmd.exe'
Would appreciate help in using Vagrant and Ansible to spin-up and provision virtual servers managed by Hyper-V on Windows 11. Currently, I have the latest version of Vagrant (2.4.0) installed on both ...
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How to get file sharing (/mnt/c) to work for wsl linux VM running on Window-11
I have successfully got a Linux VM working on my Windows-11. However when I start either Ubuntu or Debian session I get the following error:
WSL2-Linux-Kernel:linux-msft-wsl
and once logger on /mnt/c ...
