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by Pilosopong Tasyo
Tue Oct 02, 2018 10:59 pm
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Avast Antivirus
Replies: 27
Views: 6688

Re: Avast Antivirus

@wassa350: What happens inside a virtual machine, stays within the confines of the virtual machine. Since you browse the web using whatever browser you use in the Windows guest, any infection only affects the guest. Also, as long as the host machine's directories are not exposed to the VM, you shoul...
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Wed Jul 25, 2018 7:03 pm
Forum: Scripts & Bash
Topic: SCP + FIND from local [SOLVED]
Replies: 5
Views: 1687

Re: SCP + FIND from local

Use ssh to run the find command remotely that will eventually scp those files from the remote machine to the local host, i.e. ssh <user@server> <command>
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Thu Jun 28, 2018 7:35 pm
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Help for making a simple script
Replies: 5
Views: 754

Re: Help for making a simple script

... The simplest way is copy over the fonts once they're installed on the server. The fonts are in the /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts directory. Copy them over via sneakernet to the local user's $HOME/.fonts directory (which has to be created first, of course), then fc-cache -fv to force-u...
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:47 pm
Forum: Scripts & Bash
Topic: C or Bash?
Replies: 17
Views: 9749

Re: C or Bash?

I did mean a standard user. As a standard user, Bash will suffice. Every Linux user will encounter one form of shell scripting or another, sooner or later anyway. C -- although touted as a [one of several] general-purpose programming languages -- is more geared towards developing simple as well as ...
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Sat Feb 17, 2018 4:36 am
Forum: Chat about Linux
Topic: Ubuntu 18.04 data collection announcement
Replies: 4
Views: 1322

Re: Ubuntu 18.04 data collection announcement

Please continue the discussion to the existing similar topic as linked above. Thanks!
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Fri Feb 16, 2018 9:14 pm
Forum: Scripts & Bash
Topic: [Solved] Should this work?
Replies: 2
Views: 3285

Re: Should this work?

...however chromium will not open until after I close xed... There are apps and tools that won't return control to the terminal or parent script until they finish running their course, or they get 'killed off' by an external action. You might want to use the & operator to force xed to run as a ...
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Thu Feb 15, 2018 9:43 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Why does Copy&Paste remove Carriage Return?
Replies: 3
Views: 615

Re: Why does Copy&Paste remove Carriage Return?

1. I don't think copy-paste is the culprit here. Most likely when you saved the copied.txt file, you didn't notice the option to change the line ending from Unix/Linux to Windows. The default option is Unix/Linux. 2.It shouldn't be an issue. You copy-paste the text from Pluma to the website form, an...
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Mon Nov 20, 2017 9:51 am
Forum: Scripts & Bash
Topic: Script returns errors if not logged id
Replies: 6
Views: 3107

Re: Script returns errors if not logged id

2) The script is called a minute after the pc starts without logging in According to your cron table, 1.sh will get called everyday (or every weekday, if the last entry was supposed to be 1-5 instead of * -- see what the user above me wrote about correct crontab syntax) at 13:19 (1:19pm). If you wa...
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Thu Oct 26, 2017 12:09 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Audacity recordings location [SOLVED]
Replies: 4
Views: 955

Re: Audacity recordings location

So if you don't save or export anything, the recordings are lost? Imagine that you record a very long track. i want to make sure this track disappears, in order not to lose hard disk space Ah, well in that case, go to Edit > Preferences > Directories in Audacity. Any unsaved recording(s) are placed...
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Wed Oct 25, 2017 11:14 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Audacity recordings location [SOLVED]
Replies: 4
Views: 955

Re: Audacity recordings location

Once you save an Audacity project file (.aup), a folder bearing the same name appended with "_data" gets created alongside it. E.g., a project file named "my-one-hit-wonder.aup" will have a folder named "my-one-hit-wonder _data " created in the same location where the p...
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:35 pm
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Cleaning up and shrinking a PDF file
Replies: 15
Views: 7028

Re: Cleaning up and shrinking a PDF file

GS3 wrote:To the point that it is almost always better to re-scan it right. Saves time and the result will be better.
Yes. However, if you're the recipient of such a PDF file, you'll probably have to clean it up one page at a time.
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Sun Jul 16, 2017 9:24 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Cleaning up and shrinking a PDF file
Replies: 15
Views: 7028

Re: Cleaning up and shrinking a PDF file

AFAIK, a fine-grained control to shrink a PDF file embedded with scanned text (as opposed to typed text) and images is a manual and potentially laborious process. But in the end, you may end up with a smaller and cleaner PDF file suited to your exact specifications. You can use GIMP to import the PD...
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Tue Jul 11, 2017 8:06 am
Forum: Open Chat
Topic: Windows sudo shells?
Replies: 9
Views: 1326

Re: Windows sudo shells?

Usually, a short introduction to your initial post, e.g. "Hey all, I'd like to share with everyone..." makes the nature of your thread clearer to others from the get-go. Just saying.
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:32 pm
Forum: Open Chat
Topic: Is Twitter Inc Being Hypocrites?
Replies: 13
Views: 1739

Re: Is Twitter Inc Being Hypocrites?

Nipping this in the bud. Flaming doesn't add value to this thread. Move on.
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Wed Jun 07, 2017 8:03 pm
Forum: Open Chat
Topic: Sounds ominous for HP printer owners . . . . . . .
Replies: 21
Views: 2373

Re: Sounds ominous for HP printer owners . . . . . . .

...the only way to be heard is to vote with your wallet And this is what most of us did many years ago when we opted to convert inexpensive cartridge-based systems to CISS. The manufacturers started to lose their revenue in ink cartridges and when they realized their old system can't compete with t...
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Wed Jun 07, 2017 5:42 am
Forum: Open Chat
Topic: Every time I see a misspelling...
Replies: 16
Views: 1757

Re: Every time I see a misspelling...

Amii_Leigh wrote:...constantly running across people that think it's a fine thing to say 'gg' after a successful mission. I so want to slap them across the face, and say, "Speak English, or shut up!".
But it is in English, once you expand the abbreviation. :wink:
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Tue May 30, 2017 11:02 pm
Forum: Printers & Scanners
Topic: Printer is scanning but not printing documets
Replies: 4
Views: 870

Re: Epson RX640 driver needed

pdc_2 wrote:I will ask the forum moderators to move this into the sub-forum of PRINTERS & SCANNERS so look there if you can't find it in general hardware
Moved as requested.
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Thu May 18, 2017 6:46 am
Forum: Chat about Linux
Topic: Ubuntu drops Unity and moves back to GNOME
Replies: 159
Views: 19633

Re: Ubuntu drops Unity and moves back to GNOME

xenopeek wrote:...a desktop environment with (built in) endless configuration options...
This was (was being the operative word) precisely what turned me off KDE years ago.
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Thu May 18, 2017 4:03 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: installing Mobile Atlas Creator MOBAC on mint cinnamon 64 bit
Replies: 2
Views: 857

Re: installing Mobile Atlas Creator MOBAC on mint cinnamon 64 bit

...set the executable bit for start.sh e.g. by executing the following command: chmod u+x start.sh It may not be necessary to follow the command-line route as given by the instruction. You can use Nemo (the file manager) to enable the execute bit. Assuming the file is located in your home folder, r...
by Pilosopong Tasyo
Tue May 16, 2017 12:17 am
Forum: Open Chat
Topic: Kids can't use computers
Replies: 74
Views: 9443

Re: Kids can't use computers

They click 'OK' in dialogue boxes without reading the message. Truth. I can't keep track the number of times this happens when a user asks for assistance to a problem they're having on a computer. When I ask them to show me what they did in order to reproduce the problem, they go through the motion...

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