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GNU `find` error: "find: failed to read file names from file system at or below ‘/’ : No such file or directory"
OS: macOS Big Sur 11.6
I'm trying to find all files on my system that match a pattern so I can delete extraneous files after removing an application. For this purpose the application is RStudio.
I'm ...
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Cannot access website due to incorrect DNS configurations; new devices can access with updated correct DNS, but not old ones
Like said in the long title, I can't access my site hosted on AWS with AWS Route 53 Hosted Zone. When I initially configured my DNS, there may have been something wrong with the A records which ...
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Sharing a network drive over WAN with MacOS and Linux
I would like to share a network drive in a way that can be accessed from both MacOS and Linux, over the internet. I have a home Linux server, as well as one on AWS. The MacOS computer will be another ...
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sudo kill -9 pid doesn't kill softwareupdated in mac
I have a process softwareupdated which is consuming lot of data. I just want to close the process as I dont want to update .
I tried sudo kill -9 pid but it doesn't kill softwareupdated in mac.
I keep ...
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Including chmod in shell script - will it work for everyone?
I have a large wrapper.sh file which does a lot of things, but in the end runs catalina.sh tomcat.
Problem is that users who run this wrapper.sh are experiencing error: no permissions to execute ...
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“Find My Device” equivalent for Linux
I’m thinking of switching to Linux (either Debian or Ubuntu, haven’t decided) from macOS. One of the features of macOS I love is “Find My Device,” which allows me to locate my device if I lose it, ...
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Custom physical keyboard that launches apps
Is it possible to make a custom keyboard (or use one already made) and assign to each key an application to be launched when the key is pressed?
Something that works like a physical dock (for Mac ...
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How to fix broken "newline" from Mac to Windows
I have been given a set of python codes (.py) which were written on Mac. Unfortunately, when I open them on windows (pycharm, notepad, even word), there are no line breaks. I asked for .txt versions ...
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How to use one external hard drive to back up Windows and Linux as well as macOS with Time Machine?
I have an external hard disk drive I use for all of my backups.
I created an NTFS partition that I backed up Windows 10 to.
Then I created an ext4 partition and backed up Linux Mint to that.
Now, I ...
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Terminal opens with a command not found error
I checked the .bash_profile and .zprofile, but it is empty.
Also .bashrc or .zshrc do not exist in my home directory.
Terminal window
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Difficulty setting up internet sharing on Beaglebone on macOS Big Sur
I am having trouble setting up an internet to be shared on Beaglebone (BB) through the host (Mac running Big Sur OS).
When I do ifconfig on BB, I see two USB interfaces showing up (usb0, usb1) with a ...
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is there any way to install libgranite-dev on mac os?
I'm trying to get the elementary OS terminal working on mac. The installation process of this terminal is described here.
after downloading the folder with the code files and typing:
meson build --...
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Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) Error after upgrading to Big Sur [VirtualBox]
I just upgraded my Mac to Big Sur and upon starting a VirtualBox session, I get the following:
Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)
Make sure the kernel module has been loaded successfully.
where: ...
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Possible to hide the status bar for ONE particular tmux session (but not the others)?
I use a couple cheap fire tablets I have left over + ssh + tmux to run as an always up to date visual look at my taskwarrior and timewarrior status.
it works great!
but because of the limited screen ...
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Enable sharing of a folder and copy pasting between a Mac and a virtual machine
I want to enable sharing between my Mac and a virtual machine running Ubuntu image, and I see one way is to enable sharing of the folders but I keep seeing wrong fs type bad option bad superblock ...
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