Unanswered Questions
26,225 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How to run a raw-disk Virtualbox VM when using UEFI?
I have a dual-boot setup on my computer with Windows 10 and Linux (Arch, if relevant). I'm trying to virtualize my on-disk Linux install in Windows (and plan on doing the opposite direction once I ...
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fail2ban ban multiply recidive hosts
We are using fail2ban on our web-facing servers to block IP addresses that repeatedly fail to authenticate properly. Our normal bantime hereby is one hour; IPs that have already been banned multiple ...
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Connecting to the GoPro Wi-Fi network through a router
I have a GoPro Hero3+ camera, and I want to stream it to my PC. Looking online there are many guides to doing just that, but they all require me to be on the same Wi-Fi network as the GoPro itself.
My ...
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ACPI interrupts causes high CPU usage from kworker
I noticed that, on my ASUS N550JV, my load average was always above 1.
I'm using Devuan Beowulf with a 4.19.0 kernel.
After some digging I found that the culprit was a kworker related to ACPI.
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Linux and S3 sleep on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon gen 11
I got a new laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon gen 11, and it doesn't support S3 sleep mode. When in sleep the battery continues to drain, badly.
~ cat /sys/power/mem_sleep
[s2idle]
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How to continue using msmtp OAuth 2.0 for Gmail in mutt after oob deprecation?
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For two years I've been happily accessing my Gmail accounts with neomutt.
I'm sync'ing between neomutt locally and my online Gmail account with mbsync and a "2-Step Verification" ...
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FUSE fs without root privileges (e.g. a LD_PRELOAD gateway or a proot plugin)
On a system where I don't have root access and FUSE isn't installed (or I don't have sufficient privileges to create new mounts), how can I start a fuse filesytem (like sshfs or some FUSE-based ...
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Stop chrome from prompting when running external URL handler?
I've configured an external handler for telnet:// links following these instructions. It works great, but every time I click on a click chrome asks me:
Open xdg-open? http://<site i am browsing&...
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Disable Linux Page Cache for Reads
Is there a way to turn-off page caching for reads in Linux? More specifically, I would like my processes to read directly from the disk.
The setting of my problem: I am trying out new query ...
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netplan configuration not active -- ubuntu 18.04
trying to set up a fixed IP address on one of two NIC. I try using netplan. Not working at all.
Not an expert on this, I am out of my wits and ready to roll back to some other way (networkd). Maybe ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 "Web Content" & "WebExtension" high CPU usage
I'm here to talk about a strange phenomenon.
I'm on a Ubuntu 18.04 Xfce.
Firefox 68.0.1 (64-bit)
Chrome 76.0.3809.87 (64-bit)
VSCode 1.36.1 (64-bit)
To resume, I have some very high CPU usage with ...
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Docker is creatting another default network route overriding default one and disabling internet connection
I'm using docker, and when I started some container it starts the docker network interface. With it the daemon set-up 2 new routes, including a new default route, overriding my old one. And, of course,...
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Can I crop an image without fully loading it into memory?
I managed to generate a PNG image with a fractal.
The image is 65,536 pixels high and 65,536 pixels wide. It’s too big to be decoded into memory and displayed. It has probably a lot of unused space ...
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How to install the Ubuntu OS in Orange Pi 4G IoT?
I have recently buy an Orange Pi 4G IoT and I have installed the Android 6.0 successfully.
But for my project need I want to install the Ubuntu OS in it.
Can anyone help me.
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Multiple operations with pdftk
I am using pdftk to perform some operations on PDFs. Right now I am doing it like this:
pdftk <files> OPERATION <options> output - | \
pdftk - <other files> OPERATION <options>...
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