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iTerm2 loses "ls" colors if I ssh to a server
Why do I lose ls' colors when I ssh to a server?
I would like those colors to be preserved. Is this possible? Should one do something on the server side?
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Why Firefox on Linux looks different than Windows/Mac?
Beyond each platform toolkit of course.
How come Firefox UI looks, mmhh well, not that good on Linux, it's pretty decent in Windows and it definitely rocks on OSX?
Is it a single product recompiled ...
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Can a remote location on a server be the default download directory?
Motivated from this question, I have a question in general :
Can a remote location on a server be the default download directory ?
If that's possible how one should proceed in order to achieve that ?...
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How can I use VSCode to open a file/folder on a remote Linux machine in macOS?
I have some work stored on a remote work machine (Linux) and would like to work on it from home (MacOS). I have VSCode as my IDE and would like to know how to use it to open a file/directory of files ...
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Resolution Independence on OSes?
I know this isn't really a question, but has there been any recent advancements or news about Resolution Independence in any of the major OSes? (Windows / Mac / Linux)
I'm quite interested in the ...
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Unsupported architecture in installing Linux program in OSX
I am trying to install the WFDB software for OSX, source here.
I run
sudo make install
I get
cd lib; /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make install
cp -p wfdblib.h /usr/...
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OsX El Capitan ignoring case sensitive filenames and not making file/directory distinction
Hi I've run in a strange behaviour on a MacBook today: I had a directory named "FOO" (all capitals) on the desktop, then I created a file named "foo" (no extension) in another directory and moved it ...
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Difference between xargs /bin/ls and exec ls?
Hi this may be a very newbie question, but why doesnt the xargs /bin/ls work in this case? I thought it was supposed to be faster? Also what are those /fd/3 directories?
sh-3.2# find / -name 'GOALS*' ...
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Different time specification formats with crontab
Say you want to run a job every 30 minutes on linux (or osx) using crontab. Sometimes I see the the sytax written like this:
30 * * * * /path/to/job
and sometimes I see it written like
*/30 * * * * ...
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Is it possible to open a second shell session that will remember the user, machine, and directory I am in?
I'm ssh'ed into a machine and logged in as a different user. Is it possible to open a few new windows that will still be ssh'ed into that same machine, still logged in as that user?
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What is the best filesystem for an external USB drive - 2 - 3 TB shared between OSX/Windows/Linux? [duplicate]
I have been using NTFS, but I recently took a drive which is normally attached to a Mac mini running Lion (using Paragon NTFS) and attached it to Windows 7 because the drive was disconnecting ...
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Deleting Ubuntu folder symlink deletes target folder's contents when done via OSX & Samba
I have a problem where deleting a folder symlink on a mounted Samba share also deletes the target folder's contents when accessed from my Macbook. This is actually a problem I have had for many years, ...
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How to convert a .wav file to .m4a without adding any leading/trailing silence?
The short question is: How do you convert a .wav file to .m4a without having any leading or trailing silence added to the output? The file is supposed to be played in an endless loop, where even a ...
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bash - directories ending in . and whitespace cannot be removed
On my external hard drive are two directories, Fun. and Complex_, where that _ is a whitespace. I cannot empty from my trash or remove them with rm -rf and I want to.
Neither show up in Finder on OSX,...
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Accessing data on drive that was initialized as a GPT
I have a USB drive that only had a /dev/disk1 that I could mount by mount -t hfs /dev/disk1 /Volumes/usb on a Mac drive. For the life of me I could not get it mount or be read on Windows regardless of ...
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