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External Harddrive: Compatible Partitions types
I have an external harddrive, which has a partition of NTFS and 300 GB of unallocated space. Is it possible to use that unallocated space to create a paartition on Macos? The disk utility doesn't let ...
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Is the macOS/Linux shell the same thing as Bash?
sorry if this is a silly question, but are there any differences between Bash and the macOS/Linux shell? (not all Linux distros use the Bash shell right?)
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Dead key behavior on Windows and Linux
When a dead key is pressed in Windows nothing is displayed. But in macOS, when a dead key is pressed the corresponding terminator is displayed and highlighted, awaiting another key to be pressed.
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Dropbox.com works in VM host but not guest, all other sites work in guest
Dropbox.com works in VM host but not guest, all other sites work in guest.
Host: MacOS 11
VM: VMWare Fusion 12
Guest: Arch Linux, VM NAT networking
No iptables rules in VM.
ca-certificates (20210603-1)...
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Utilize `fswatch` to improve `rsync`'s speed?
I have some huge folders containing about 40000 files (and much, much more gitignored files like node_modules), and I want to rsync to a remote machine.
Currently, I use a simple script like run_rsync;...
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Local overwrite of an executable is not working on mac os x
On mac os x, I'd like to be able to have arguments to head after the filename, like on ubuntu: head <filename> -n 2
So I have a head executable in ~/bin/head and that's listed before /usr/bin in ...
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Nix package manager: how to have uuidgen command?
I am new to nix and nixos and I want to have the uuidgen command available. I don't see uuid-runtime and linux-utils didn't contained it. I don't see any specific documentation on how to get this ...
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On a UNIX system that is quickly running out of space (MacOS, GNU/Linux) - what is fastest way to find which process and FS path is responsible?
This is a scenario that I experienced both on MacOS and GNU/Linux - a rogue process starts eating disk space. Very fast. You can see with iostat massive writes, with df -h that percents of free space ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS + Wacom Volito tablet drivers settings (Linux/Unix/MacOs)
I connected very old tablet Wacom Volito to the Ubuntu 20.04 and it behaves correctly as tablet, out of the box (no additional drivers installed). Connected to macOS Big Sur it behaves as mouse.
Where ...
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Access Android Emulator running on host machine (mac) from Vmware fusion 12.2.1 (Linux)
I am trying to run an Android Emulator on my host machine which is a Mac OS and connect to it from my Vmware fusion guest machine which is a Linux.
I tried all network configurations and also tried to ...
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Filter stdin of process executed with socat client
My question is: is there a way to pre-process the stdin of a command executed via socat client.
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I am launching a reverse shell with socat using this command:
$> socat -T30 "openssl-...
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How to split a video into very small equal chunks using FFMPEG?
I'm trying to split a video file into 0.5s chunks. The closest command I've found is here (see command below):
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34249159/how-to-get-equal-segment-times-using-ffmpeg
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QEMU aarch64 on ARM Mac never boots and only shows (qemu) prompt
I'm trying to emulate aarch64 and/or arm using qemu on ARM/M1 macOS. However, after multiple installer isos (ubuntu aarch64, standard alpine aarch64, etc) I can't seem to get anything but a blank ...
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scp from linux to an external drive on mac
I have been using the following command to copy between a linux machine and a mac and it works fine:
scp -r /home/ubuntu/Desktop/somefolder username@ipaddress:/Users/username/Documents/somefolder
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