Comment by Brandon Rhodes on Power on/off USB ports
The tee command will have the side effect of also printing to the screen. If you want, dd of=/sys/bus/... will write only to the file, and nowhere else.
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This might be due to some configuration difference with my system, but I got the error E: Unable to locate package virtualbox-5 and had to instead use the command apt-get install virtualbox-5.0 when...
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zless is part of the standard gzip package that is installed on all Linux and BSD systems worldwide.
View ArticleComment by Brandon Rhodes on Python: no module named datetime?
@Umair There might be something wrong with your activate script, in that case — normally, after activation, which python2.7 will show the path to the environment's Python, not return the path to the...
View ArticleComment by Brandon Rhodes on How to install watchman on Ubuntu 18.04, for...
Thank you, it worked! Users can also avoid downloading the entire repository if they instead run: curl -L https://github.com/facebook/watchman/archive/v4.9.0.tar.gz | tar xzf - then cd watchman-4.9.0.
View ArticleComment by Brandon Rhodes on Google Earth does not show any map
Thank you! I would never have run across that "is discouraged" on my own, and it fixed both Google Earth and 3D in my browser. The other answer didn't help at all, but this one is perfect.
View ArticleAnswer by Brandon Rhodes for Window is hidden but process is running
Unfortunately, no — there is generally no way to get an X Windows application to reconnect to the windowing system if it loses its connection and its window is destroyed. And windows will generally...
View ArticleAnswer by Brandon Rhodes for Pressing enter produces ^M instead of a newline
Try running stty -a to view your terminal settings. My suspicion is that your icrnl setting is not set and will be shown as -icrnl (the minus sign means that it is turned off) instead of having its...
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