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I have a rather interesting problem. Starting about 3 AM last night all files/directories created on my NFS mounts completely ignore the umask. I have a domain-wide umask (for all users except root)...

Thanks DrangonNinga9, the second script (post #6) fixed this for my Linux Mint 13 install (based on Ubuntu 12.04) running Linux 3.2.0-40-generic (64 bit). So, one more kernel version your script...

I got redirected to myfilestore.com when trying to visit a forum (not this one). I know it's an exploit against vbulletin, but I am worried about what it may have done to my system. What I wan't to...

I think what you are talking about is called Shade. You can right click on the title bar and it is under this menu. There are also other ways to do this. In System Settings->Window...

Not sure about the security implications but you could use a symlink. This is done with:

ln -s /home/procon/logs /var/www/mysite/shared_folder
This will essentially make it look as if all the...

You run most python scripts from the command line. So open a terminal with ctrl+alt+t and then cd to the directory your script is and run the script with:

./<your script>

However, your script...

I can't say for certain since I have the T530 (a larger version of the T430), but it should work just fine. I run Linux Mint 13 on mine (which is a derivative of 12.04).

I have the largest battery...

Are you using the regular install disk or the alternate installer. The regular installer requires more memory than you have available. That graphics card may also be an issue: here is a really old...

By default Ubuntu will use the nouveau open source drivers for NVIDIA cards.

Try this: http://www.ivegotavirus.com/how-to-fix-bumblebee-on-ubuntu-12-10/
NOTE: I don't know if it works, still running Mint 13.

I am no expert. But as far as I understand, a lot of updates are for security (especially on LTS releases such as 12.04). So I would always keep the system up to date. When you used update manager...

Can you confirm that you can edit and save the file with ssh and vi/emacs. It sounds like a permissions issue. You could also use X forwarding, depending on the connection speed, but the way you...

Not really sure since I now use KDE as my desktop environment (lots of settings by default) but you could try installing gpointing-device-settings and try some of the settings there. That's how I...

I can't identify which language you are using (almost looks like C++/Java) but how your code is written it looks like if the images are different sizes the value true will be returned. Probably not...

I would need to see the error it gave you. Try opening a terminal (ctrl+alt+t) and typing:

sudo apt-get install wine
and post any error messages here. Please use
error message tags when...

Why not install wine from the repositories?

sudo apt-get install wine

If you really need to install from source (I don't recommend this for a beginner) then try installing the X11 development...

First, 13.04 is not released yet, so it is still in development and thus if you use it you should expect your system to break often. Use 12.10 or 12.04 if you want a stable system.

Second, use...

What errors did if give you?

Also, I really recommend you install trash-cli and do it that way. Using rm with the -r flag and especially * is dangerous if you are not careful. You could erase...

You do this by enclosing in

this is code tags. Please ignore the HTML Code header. I don't know of another way to escape the code tags.

My trash folder is at ~/.local/share/Trash/ not at ~/.Trash/ so you may need to use

rm -r ~/.local/share/Trash/*
However, a safer method would be to install trash-cli with:

sudo apt-get...

In non Mac computers there is sometimes a setting in the BIOS to use the dedicated graphics card all the time. However, I am not sure how this would work on a mac since it does not have a BIOS. ...

You might be able to boot the recovery partition from the GRUB boot menu. However, if the HP recovery tools are anything like Lenovo's then using the recovery tool will completely erase your drive. ...

Here (http://www.techspot.com/guides/630-windows-8-boot-fix/) is instructions on fixing the Windows 8 MBR. It also includes instructions on how to do this without owning a Windows 8 boot disk by...

Are you saying you have an optimus graphics setup. If that is the case then you could try http://bumblebee-project.org/. It allows you to launch a program and have it's graphics handled by the...

I think you mean Clam AV.

sudo apt-get install clamav
if you want a GUI then

sudo apt-get install clamtk