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1 Day Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread Another sed question in Programming Talk

You're welcome. If you want to see more of what square brackets are and how they work when not escaped check out this link: ...

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1 Day Ago

Lars Noodén replied to a thread Another sed question in Programming Talk

You have to escape the square brackets in the first part of the regex to get them treated as individual characters. Or else sed will think you are...

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Lars Noodén replied to a thread Webmin and PROftpd in General Help

Can you connect locally on the same LAN? To connect using FileZilla file in the Host, Username, Password and Port at the top of the window. The...

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Lars Noodén replied to a thread problem in intalling R- program in ubuntu 10.04 in Absolute Beginners Section

Just to get you through to the end of the week, you might be able point your sources file to http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ where the lucid packages...

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Lars Noodén replied to a thread problem in intalling R- program in ubuntu 10.04 in Absolute Beginners Section

That would be because support for 10.04 (lucid) on the Desktop ended last week on the 9th. There won't be any software or security updates coming for...

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Lars Noodén replied to a thread Webmin and PROftpd in General Help

If it's just you connecting, then I would suggest skipping FTP and using SFTP. Unlike FTP it is secure, and unlike FTP it is easy to set up. You...

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rushikesh988 replied to a thread Best Twitter client for Ubuntu? in General Help

You can use the tweetdeck. Its a good client

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Lars Noodén replied to a thread FTP and Apache, the creation of directories and files in Server Platforms

The directories are set up right. It must be the FTP server that is overriding the permissions. Which one are you using and how is it set up? I...

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Lars Noodén replied to a thread FTP and Apache, the creation of directories and files in Server Platforms

Apache should be left alone, only the user (roy) that needs write access should be in the group webadmins. You do need to find a way to grant read...

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Lars Noodén replied to a thread FTP and Apache, the creation of directories and files in Server Platforms

If you want to use group permissions to allow read and write, you can set the GID bit. sudo chown -R roy:webadmins /var/www sudo chmod -R g+ws...

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Lars Noodén replied to a thread FTP and Apache, the creation of directories and files in Server Platforms

Welcome to the forums. The user and group www-data exists to provide an unprivileged user for the web server to run. So it should definitely not...

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Lars Noodén replied to a thread How large is Linux compared to Windows? in The Cafe

Here are two relevant quotes for that. "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not,"...

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Lars Noodén replied to a thread How large is Linux compared to Windows? in The Cafe

@evilsoup: There's a recognition even in the non-technical communities that it is Linux that powers Android: ...

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raja.genupula replied to a thread GIMP 2.8 issues... in General Help

you are saying that to smaller size , as it says if you set the picture to proper resolution then it will have the quality . If you change it you...

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Lars Noodén replied to a thread How to completely remove and block Facebook in Ubuntu? in Absolute Beginners Section

Here is how we can find what belongs to Facebook so it can be added to UFW or GUFW. We use whois to find the subnets and use sort to put them in the...

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Lars Noodén replied to a thread How to completely remove and block Facebook in Ubuntu? in Absolute Beginners Section

You're doing it wrong then. HTTPS has nothing to do with Facebook itself. Blocking Facebook only needs a list of the subnets that belong to...

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Lars Noodén replied to a thread How to completely remove and block Facebook in Ubuntu? in Absolute Beginners Section

You can easily use iptables to block Facebook and other spy sites. The main thing is to use the AS Number to look up all the subnets that might be...

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