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SSH Permission denied when subnet is /31
I am trying to make a point to point ipv4 link with a device running Ubuntu 18.04 . if I set the device to 192.168.1.48/31 and in then OSX I set my ethernet dongle to 192.168.1.49/31, I am able to ...
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The difference between domain and server URL in macOS and Windows
Working on windows machine, I manage to gain the credentials of AD user by the following UPN user@domain, whereas in Mac I need to put the server name instead of domain, meaning user@server.
Here's ...
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Force Google Chrome (Or Chromium) to Manually Save VSphere HTML5 Password?
System Info: Running Chromium on various Linux workstations and often Google Chrome or Chromium on one of my work MacBook Pros. I'm only a Firefox user when Google isn't watching (that's a joke, they'...
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How to play CS 1.6 on MacOS Catalina
How do you play CS 1.6 on MacOS Catalina?
I'm thinking about installing a Dual Boot Linux in order to play CS 1.6 on my Macbook Pro. However, I don't have the required 25 GB HDD space for Ubuntu.
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How can a macOS SMB share be mounted on Linux so that symbolic links can be created on it?
There is lots of conflicting information about it and it seems to depend a lot on the versions of various modules, and specific mount options.
I'm not looking for the symlink "emulation" (mfsymlinks),...
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Options to manage a Win7 machine remotely from macOS/Linux [closed]
My mom lives on another continent and is very computer-illiterate, e.g. she doesn't know how to open Skype again after she mistakenly closed it so we can't talk to her for weeks (until somebody comes ...
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Is it dangerous to have /usr/local/bin ahead of /usr/bin in one's PATH?
I was reading a Stack Exchange answer here about a connected topic, and part of the accepted answer said this:
never place user-writeable PATH elements ahead of those that can only be modified by ...
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What is the “-o” argument in find command?
I am currently running this command:
find . \( -type d -name .git -prune \) -o -type f -name "*"` on my macos shell.
I found the command in a Stack Overflow thread for another problem. I do not ...
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Cross-platform tool for clipboard sharing? [closed]
I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to share the clipboard between multiple systems operating within a LAN. The requirements I have are:
It can run on Windows, macOS, and Linux
Sharing is ...
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Replace files recursively
I have a deeply nested directory called MyProject which contains dozens of git repositories. Each of those repositories contains, somewhere, a directory called utils which contains a file called ...
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Slow rsync Transfer Speed over Wi-Fi on OpenWRT
I have a USB HDD successfully mounted on my Linksys WRT1900ACS (OpenWRT installed). Laptop is a macbook (MacOS).
Both router and Mac have rsync 3.1.3 installed.
File system on USB HDD is ext4.
When ...
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Is it possible to have a file "represent" the contents of a folder?
I usually need to store different files that are logically related to each other for different projects (example pairs: data-metadata, script-configuration, run_input-run_result-run_log).
Most of ...
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How can I sign in to my VPS/shell account without having to type my password each time?
How can I sign in to my VPS/shell account without having to type my password each time? I have tried pasting a shell script including Prolog code but the password doesn't paste properly.
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Process 0 is taking 500%+ CPU time in MAC
Problem
When I boot my mac, once the login screen appears and after which everything freezes, I can hardly open any applications.
Analysis
Using activity manager, I found out, process with process ...
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Can't run glxgears using XQuartx
I am trying to run glxgears on a remote Linux server using XQuarts 2.7.11 on macOS Mojave (10.14.6), but I get the following error:
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: ...
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Moving files to matching folders on linux command line
I would like to copy or move files in to matching folders.
these are my filenames:
1-filename-aa.txt
2-filename-aa.txt
3-filename-aa.txt
1-filename-bb.txt
2-filename-bb.txt
3-filename-bb.txt
these ...
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Having trouble getting ARP requests through a QEMU VM on Mac OSX
Using Mac OS 10.14.5 Mojave and QEMU version 4.0.0
I'm trying to get an Ubuntu Server 19.04 guest running with network communication through a bridge on my Mac host. At the moment I'm struggling with ...
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How to delete a directory in MacOS from the command line?
I would like to know how to delete a directory on my MacBook. I have tried several methods such as moving it to the Trash -> Empty Trash, via the command sudo rm -rf, restarting the computer in ...
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Increase key repeat speed on Linux and MacOS
I am writing a library so trying to support multiple OS.
I am looking to increase the key repeat speed of the return key and down/up arrows. The speed looks pretty limited, maybe repeats about 8 times ...
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Wired Network Issue with Debian based system booted on Macbook Pro 2016
I dual booted my mac with Parrot OS. I have perfectly fine wireless connection but Ethernet is not recognized. When I installed the system, it said that the Ethernet card could not be identified and ...
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Is it possible to sync directory between two computers without direct connection through small intermediate storage device?
I would like to one way synchronise big directory between two machines without direct connection. Either using some cloud storage (without computing power) connected to both machines or an ...
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ssh can't connect and I can't understand why
I'm trying to connect from a mac (osx 10.14.4) to a linux machine (Ubuntu 18.04.2) through ssh. I'm not an expert in shh, this is my first attempt to use it, but what seems to happen is that the ...
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Anaconda stopped working when added DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to bashrc
I am using Anaconda Navigator version 1.9.7 on macOS Mojave 10.14.5.
I found that most anaconda-navigator, pip, ... commands stopped working when I added the following command to .bashrc.
export ...
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How does "echo $0" work?
I found out on Ask Ubuntu I can use this command to figure out what shell I am in.
echo $0
I like this because it is simple as compared to more complex solutions like this one on the Unix and Linux ...
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Unusual prompt in the terminal
I have a really unusual prompt in my Unix terminal (I'm using macOS). It looks like this:
myUserName@Galaxy-A7-2016
I've never seen the @Galaxy-A7-2016 bit before and I'm worried someone might have ...
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Can you run a Python program using Nice in Mac Terminal?
I'm trying to assign a high priority level to a Python program as soon as it runs using Terminal. I'm thinking of syntax along the lines of:
sudo nice -n -20 pythonfile.py
This returns the error: ...
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Complete install a Linux OS to the MacBook Pro
I would like to install Linux on a MacBook Pro machine. It will be a full installation and afterward, will run fully on Linux.
Please, don't ask me why, but, I'm sure I can go back and install OS X ...
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how can I get the yes command to force overwrite and to do so with new lines?
I would like cp to prompt before overwriting so I am using -i.
(I might sometimes use an alias for cp, or similar, so cp always occurs with -i).
I may want to say overwrite all. I know that's the ...
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How to use ophcrack for Mac password?
I have used ophcrack before for Windows as it uses the Rainbow tables supplied on their website.
Are there similar tables that can be loaded into ophcrack for OS X / MacOS?
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Problems installing RCPLEX
I get an error while I try to install RCPLEX on my Computer and I can't figure out what to do. There is no information what so ever on the internet regarding my problem.
R Marcel$ R CMD INSTALL --...
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