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The original correct place to mount things manually was under /mnt.

/media/<username> is meant for automatic mounting. 'udisks2' mounts things there and things mounted there appear as shortcuts on the left of all the major file managers.

When a solid state storage device such as a USB flash drive becomes read-only, it means it has died. From now on you will always be able to read from it, but not write to it. Like a data CD.

I'm using xfce4-terminal 0.6.3 and changing MiscHighlightUrls=TRUE to MiscHighlightUrls=FALSE works, but the path to the file is different from what you wrote. On my computer it's ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc.

It looks like your status file is broken. Do this, then try again: sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/status ~/status.bak sudo cp /var/backups/dpkg.status.0 /var/lib/dpkg/status sudo apt-get update If this doesn't work, try one of the even older status file backups in /var/backups . You'll need to decompress the...

Input/output error

Hardware is broken.

You can try:
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo dpkg --configure -a

Have you deleted ~/.wine?

Also try sudo apt-get -f install
and sudo dpkg --configure -a

If it says 'No such file or directory' but the file is there, it means you've typed it wrong. If the file is in ~/Downloads, then first do cd Downloads.

According to the top of the 418MB file, there should be another file called 'installer-file.sh'.

Try reinstalling bash using Synaptic Package Manager. Currently behind the $ are 2 characters, the first one is obscured by my username overlapping it, but it doesn't seem to be a letter, more likely a symbol { [ | The second is ~ These two symbols are meant to be there. The first is a : and the sec...

In the network configuration, set it so that the wireless network is not connected to automatically.

... advised that VeraCrypt is more current and more secure. Main improvement of VeraCrypt is a delay in processing password, which make brute force attacks more difficult. Whether this matters depends on what sort of "adversary" you have in mind. For casual busybody security, doesn't matter. For go...

If you press Esc when the logo is displayed it will show terminal messages instead that might explain why it is not switching off.

Also, sudo apt-get purge modemmanager might fix your problem.

Good tutorial! Stickied. 11. Optional - if the disk is a solid state (SSD) you may wish to stop the system writing the time of the last file access to files when they are used. This saves on writes which add wear to the disk. To do this, edit the field that has no label but contains a bunch of opti...

There are several GUI Linux programs that offer to schedule TV recordings. I've tried Kaffeine , Me-TV , MythTV , VLC media player (via its cvlc interface) and xine . However when I tried them I found that they were either buggy or they didn't work at all. All of them except VLC media player seem bl...

That's two unexplained anomalies in one thread: first find not finding files that are there, and then rsync saying that identical files are different. Something is amiss and I suspect it's related to DropBox. I wouldn't rely 100% on these backups if I were you.

If the two directories exist, contain files, and their contents are viewable (i.e. you have permission to view the contents) then the method I gave will work. You can test the method by creating a directory, putting some files in it, copying it, then deleting a couple of files from the copy. Then co...

This is what I would do: 1. Create list of the contents of /media/tony/DropBox_A/Dropbox and write it to a file in your home directory: $ cd /media/tony/DropBox_A/Dropbox $ find -type f | sort > ~/file1 2. Create a list of the contents of /media/tony/DropBox_A/Backup_of_dropbox and write it to a sec...

It's probably a bug. The actual files corresponding to the menu entries will be in /usr/share/applications . You can compare them by opening them in a text editor. If you want to you can remove one of the entries from the menu by copying its .desktop file to $HOME/.local/share/applications then addi...

I'd be interested in trying the command line version, but I'd need some instructions on how to use it. Are there any around? thanks. To download the best quality single-file video: youtube-dl <URL> To see what different quality formats there are to download of a particular video: youtube-dl -F <URL...

It seems that VLC player could be a good substitute but I am not able to record TV program in it. Clicking on record button has no effect.

Look in your Downloads directory.