How to open the preferences dialog in Gthumb 3.4 on Linux? There seems no options to open the dialog in the menu on the toolbar. It is in the application menu of gthumb under Gnome 3. Click gthumb application icon on the top left side of you desktop and in the menu you can find
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How to get the latest commit’s hash in git?
Posted onI am looking for a better method for getting the latest commit’s hash in git. I know git log -1 can show the info of the latest commit and from the info of the latest commit I can use grep and other tools to get the hash. Is there better method supported from git? Note:
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How to configure Linux to use the scanner in an HP all-in-one printer?
Posted onHow to configure Linux to use the scanner (not only the printer) in an HP all-in-one printer? The OS is Fedora 22 and the connection between the HP all-in-one printer and the PC is through wireless. The printer is working well. You can check this post for configuring the printer and scanner of HP All-In-One
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How to advertise different gateway ip via DHCP in OpenWRT?
Posted onHow to advertise a different router/gateway ip via DHCP in OpenWRT? In general, you need to configure the DHCP option with code 3 (router). (A list of all options can be found in http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/bootp/options.htm ) For example, to advise the gateway IP 192.168.1.2, you will send this option: “3,192.168.1.2” Now, for OpenWRT, you have 2
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How to export Google Chrome password on Linux?
Posted onHow to export my Google Chrome password on Linux to a human-readable text file? In newer versions of Chrome, the passwords are stored using the encrypted password storage provided by the system, either Gnome Keyring or KWallet. We need to force Chrome to use a temporary profile folder with unencrypted password storage. Step 1. Connect
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Good free images hosting services on the Web?
Posted onSuggestions on some good free images hosting services on the Web? Two good free image hosting websites: Imgur: http://imgur.com/ Postimage.org: http://postimage.org/
How to find out the MX record for a domain on Linux?
Posted onHow to find out a domain’s MX record for Email on Linux? For example, to find which domain/IP the email to gmail.com is delivered to. You may make use of the host command. The -t option is used to select the query type. type can be any recognized query type: CNAME, NS, SOA, SIG, KEY,
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How to host multiple websites on a Apache Linux web server?
Posted onI have a Linux web server with Apache (httpd). How to host multiple websites on Apache? To host websites www.example1.com and www.example2.com on a single node with Apache2 on a single IP, you can use VirtualHost as follows. Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and add the following lines: NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /var/www/example1.com ServerName www.example1.com # Other
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How to allow websites’ .htaccess files in Apache2?
Posted onHow to allow websites to use .htaccess files in Apache2 web servers? The AllowOverride directive controls this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#allowoverride To allow AllowOverride in a directory, add the following rules to the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf or similar configuration file for your apache installation: <Directory “/var/www/www.example.com”> Options FollowSymLinks # # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
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How to force umount a NFS directory on Linux?
Posted onThe NFS server is down. It is reported “Stale NFS file handle”. I tried ‘umount’ and ‘umount -f’. But neither succeeded. # umount /mnt/store umount.nfs: /mnt/store: Stale NFS file handle # umount -f /mnt/store umount.nfs: /mnt/store: Stale NFS file handle How to force umounting the NFS without rebooting the Linux server? I usually have to
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How to redirect anything written on a file to another file in linux?
Posted onSuppose we have two files, a.txt and b.txt . If we write anything in a.txt & b.txt, it should be redirected to c.txt. tee may help for this purpose. tee: duplicate standard input You may try a command like this: echo “hello” | tee -a a.txt >>b.txt Both a.txt and b.txt will contain the “hello”.
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How to Add “nomodeset” to Grub2 in Fedora and Ubuntu
Posted onI need to add nomodeset to make my GPU card work on Linux. Latest Fedora and Ubuntu and their derives use grub2. How to add nomodeset permanently to grub2 on Fedora and Ubuntu? The parameters grub2 will use are stored in its grub.cfg file. The grub.cfg file is generated from grub’s default settings file /etc/default/grub.
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How to run firefox under different profiles simultaniusly?
Posted onFirefox has multiple profiles and I am aware of choosing them by invoking firefox with the -P option. But I find that after one firefox instance under one profile is running, even I choose another profile during starting with -P, the new instance is still running under the existing profile. How to run firefox with
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git push error
Posted on$ git push error: The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden while accessing https://github.com/HarryWei/hummer.git/info/refs fatal: HTTP request failed Replace (or add) url=ssh://git@github.com/HarryWei/hummer.git with url=https://git@github.com/HarryWei/hummer.git under “[remote “origin”]” section in ~/.gitconfig file. Reference:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7438313/pushing-to-git-returning-error-code-403-fatal-http-request-failed
How to wrap long lines in a text file on Linux?
Posted onI have some text files which contain some long lines. Now I would like to break lines to at most 80 characters. How to wrap long lines in a text file on Linux? The fold command can wrap lines. fold – wrap each input line to fit in specified width For your purpose, fold -w
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Skype crashes because it cannot read data from “C:Documents and SettingsAdministratorLocal SettingsTemp”
Posted onOn my laptop, I install windows xp because it is user-friendly for me. However, Skype cannot be open because “The system is not unavailable”. At last, I find the “Skype” directory under “C:Documents and SettingsAdministratorLocal SettingsTemp” cannot be accessed. “C:Documents and SettingsAdministratorLocal SettingsTemp” is like temporary directory for specific user under Linux OS. Actually, for
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How to enable SSH service on Fedora Linux?
Posted onHow to enable SSH service on Fedora Linux? By default, it seems ssh is not enabled. Fedora may not have sshd service installed/enabled by default. You will need to install and configure it by yourself. The following instructions is for Fedora 22 as an example. First, install the sshd server by # dnf install openssh-server
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git: how to merge upstream with fork repo
Posted onHow to merge upstream into local fork repo with git? Merging an upstream repository into your fork: https://help.github.com/articles/merging-an-upstream-repository-into-your-fork/ Merging an upstream repository into your fork: https://help.github.com/articles/merging-an-upstream-repository-into-your-fork/
Block Ads in WordPress, while mobile view
Posted onHi there, Quite recently I’ve created a native app (webview app)of my wordpress website and this wordpress site is using responsive theme as well. Now I want to publish this app at play store. The problem is that Adsense are not allowed to be shown in a native android app. So I want to know
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How to merge 2 .a libraries to one .a library on Linux?
Posted onWe have 2 static .a libraries and we would like to merge them into a single one for easier usage. How to merge 2 .a libraries to one .a library on Linux? With GNU ar, you can specify the single command-line option -M and control it with a script supplied via standard input, like the
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