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strings Useful to find printable strings in binaries.
This example prints the hidden insults from sudo:
strings /usr/lib/sudo/sudoers.so | grep -A51 Dave
Camden Phillips
Is it true that it's harder to install Linux on Kaby Lake machines?
Charles Reed
How can i make a Kali USB that can be used in any PC to boot Kali?
Ryan Gomez
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John Perez
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Luke Martinez
Why are you niggers still pushing the GNU namescheme?
Parker Nelson
Because freedom matters.
Hudson Bailey
Is there any real reason to keep coming to Sup Forums?
Nicholas Brown
This thread. I don't even bother browsing the catalog anymore.
Ryan Wright
This thread is the only reason I'm still coming to Sup Forums everyday.
Other boards I frequent like /n/ and /diy/ are so slow I can digest everything interesting posted there and not have to come back until next week.
So you know why I'm so assblasted when Sup Forumsedditors come and shit in it for their own entertainment.
Jayden Jenkins
Obscure commands, post 'em.
Juan Long
No, not even this thread yet I still come back. Maybe the networking thread? Sup Forums is absolutely terrible.
Ryder Fisher
tac
Like cat, but reversed.
Ian Bailey
Meant to quote:
Oliver Roberts
How do I change distro without having to reinstall all my programs and settings?
Tyler Butler
keep /home during installation
Blake Howard
Could you go a bit more in depth?
Samuel Cox
What version of Ubuntu is KDE Neon based off now, 16.04.1 or 16.10?
Brody Wood
keep /home during installation
Chase Howard
During the installation of a new distro keep the partition called /home untouched.
In linux all relevant files are in /home. Everything else is easily replacible garbage.
Isaiah Scott
/etc isnt hours fucking about with settings isnt "easily replaceable"
Christopher Ross
copy any config files that you need into a temporary directory in /home and when you reinstall the programs under your new distro, copy and overwrite the default configs with the ones from your old distro.
Brody Sanders
/etc keeps system-wide configuration files.
Which may be different in every distro. Trying to fit old system-wide configs into a completely different distribution completely defeats the purpose of distrohopping.
If possible any changes to the configuration of software should be done on a per-user basis.
Jaxon Wright
Will I lose files on my hdd if I partition it for dualboot? Could anyone help me find resources on how to setup dualboot with uefi? I have already looked at arch-wiki.
Adam Perry
Download kali-image and dd to flashdrivr.
Oliver Butler
Yeah no Its going to function the same way it did on any other distro, sans symlinks. Your networkmanager/mpd/ntp/XXX configs are going to be identical across the distros.
Modularity, look it up
Ian Martin
So I've installed gentoo, now what? Working on getting Firefox to install, but what wm/de should I use? Leaning towards my favorite, xfce
Christian Howard
>i installed a distro without any clue whatsoever what to use it for ebun
where do i buy such a retard?
Zachary Murphy
Is there a way to get a global menu bar in GNOME on Debian?
Eli Moore
have you tried looking for gnome addons?
Jayden Miller
Hey guys, somewhat recently I accidentally the whole hdd, and til I can get a new one I've been running Linux Mint (Cinnamon) on a USB stick
Anyways, I'm impressed with the stuff Linux has, the downside is that a lot of stuff need to be installed manually and there's tons of technical aspects which flies over my head.
Recently I've decided to pass the time playing RPGMaker games (like Yume Nikki, Ib, etc, etc), and I followed this guide to get it working, after installing Wine and updating it to v1.8: supershigi.com/forums/index.php?topic=888.0
So far I'm doing fine, except the BGM files won't play, since it's in MIDI. I've checked the installgentoo and archlinux wikis and installed timidity with freepats, but still nothing, anyone have any ideas?
Also, this is a secondary problem, but games made in the "WOLF RPG editor" (One Way Heroics, etc) are also incapable of playing bgm or music, and since there's not "Music" folder for games made in this engine, I can't verify if they're stored in .mid format.
tl;dr: Playing games through WIne, BGM won't play because it's in MIDI, wut do? Really new to this so just pointing me to a page won't really help much, pls hand hold
Colton Baker
install your favourite then why would you can about what strangers suggest
Kevin Reed
One more thing, would running the games through PlayOnLinux work instead without any problems? If anyone's tried it before I'll gladly switch to it instead of using Wine.
Brayden Powell
winehq reports sound as not working
playonlinux is a management software for wine, it's not different from wine it just makes managing multiple wine profiles/versions easier
Jackson Rodriguez
stop avatarfagging
Liam Richardson
Which keyboard layout should I use for the Ducky Shine 3? Raspbian has many choices, but for other brands such as Apple, Microsoft, and Logitech.
Grayson Wright
it's a standard us 104 keyboard
intl 105 keyboard has alt-gr instead of r-alt
Jason Phillips
I haven't found anything. Googling it only shows up things for Ubuntu where it seems to be using Unity's global menus in GNOME
Sebastian Edwards
the additional x86 keys should work regardless of layout.
Is the second one XF86Terminal?
Adrian Gutierrez
>I haven't found anything. See how much time would it save you?
Make one.
Luis Hill
Fuck that, I'll just switch to a DE that already can.
Kevin Myers
What does /fglt/ use CAPS_LOCK for?
Lincoln Smith
Caps Lock
Lincoln Johnson
locking dem caps
Noah Sullivan
How can I enable bash completion for program options?
I have bash-completions already. I don't have an single /etc/bash_completion file but I do have a dir with dbus-bash-completion.sh fcoeadm fcoemon icedteaweb-completion lldpad lldptool quilt redefine_filedir scl-completion.bash in. My bashrc file in /etc/ also has nothing about completions in it.
Matthew Gray
I'm My main problem is that my alt keys weren't working for the regular web browsing shortcuts, but I think that had less to do with the layout and more with the option to do alt-gr using "both alt keys" that I overlooked. I set alt-gr to "none/no alt-gr" and my keys work now. Thanks!
I've been using manjaro for a little while but predictably something has broken since the last update and new xorg version. Getting tired of this, starting to seem not worth the effort. Should I go back to Neon?
Elijah Ortiz
>explain gnu in 1 word
Jayden Phillips
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Liam Rodriguez
I'm thinking about installing a distro in my main PC, but I haven't used linux since KDE 4.0 was new and so unstable it was unusable. What has changed since then, and what would be a good distro for someone who wants something that werks without too much tinkering but it's not ubuntu-tier computer illiterate?
Nathan Williams
ubuntu or derivatives
stop trying to appear cool because your particular linux flavour has a different logo that appears when you run screenfetch
noone fucking cares
if you want a distro that works and doesn't require tinkering Ubuntu fucking LTS
Chase Turner
kde neon
Cooper Harris
Isn't ubuntu an amazon botnet nowadays? Also gnome looked too "childish" to me back then, I'll check out if it has changed now. I don't care about being "cool" user, I was just memeing.
I'll check it out, thanks user.
Jaxson Harris
Bumping my question.
Christian Morales
what does your script do
Easton Myers
whats a very light wm?
Noah Gray
dwm, cwm
Chase Brown
What do you mean startup? That usually means you want to run something once when your computer first starts up. But it sounds almost like you want to run it every time you open a terminal window. So which is it?
Bentley Scott
strace
Ever asked yourself WTF IS HAPPENING? strace will tell you.
What the fuck happens when you replace some text in a file with sed -i?
What rolling release distro are (You) using, Sup Forums?
Jason Carter
(4U) obviously gen2
Josiah Evans
>natural scrolling/reverse scrolling Sorry, but that's not quite what I meant. Before having to use libinput, I could hold down my middle click button and move pages up and down via trackball.
How do I do this with libinput?
Matthew Green
Rate my uptime dick, post yours. uptime | perl -nE '/p (\d+)/;say+8,"="x$1,D'
Colton Flores
will this delete system32?
Colton Cox
IO have a home computer not a server why would I have so much uptime? I only leave my NAS on if it's torrenting otherwise that gets shutdown when I'm not around too.
Xavier White
found the shorty
Juan Moore
Y-you're leaving your computer alone? ;_;
Wyatt Nelson
pretty much this they're the only ones i can really stand
Levi Rivera
>mfw using the terminal all the time to do things in debian but it's mostly copy pasting from forums and I'm learning nothing
Angel Butler
install gentoo
Adam Moore
>I only leave my NAS on if it's torrenting otherwise that gets shutdown when I'm not around too.
Dude you don't automate your downloads?
Carson Sullivan
wow, how did you made that your tripcode is a word??? look pretty cool to be honest
Michael Thompson
forgot to ask: what's with these chinese(?) characters? do they have a deeper meaning? pls respond
Noah James
nah I don't follow enough currently airing things to worry about it.
my poor little NAS has 2x 4 year old wd greens in it. the old girl needs needs a break every now and then. soon she'll rest forever too but we try not to think about that.
David Rivera
Roughly translated it means "I have severe autism". I could be wrong
Dominic Rodriguez
I'm also interested. Looks pretty 1337.
Josiah Cox
thats "hexspeak", the language hackers are speaking
Carson King
holy crap p-please dont hack me
Hudson Hernandez
Anyone?
Hunter Roberts
I have USB headset that I'd like to have set as the default device when it's plugged into my arch laptop. As it is now, I have to set it as the default device manually so that when I press the volume up/down keys the audio going to the headset is affected rather than the onboard speakers.
does anyone know what I need to do to make this happen? Also, is there a way for me to set the onboard speakers as the default device once I've unplugged the headset?
David Parker
In my file manager, my .torrent files are of the type: Unknown. I'm positive that before they were of the type Bitttorent Seed or something like that. How do I change that? I know about mime types but have no idea how to change it.
Help!
Jacob Thomas
gen2
William Lopez
I've spent the last few days mucking around in Debian using apt-get. apparently aptitude is b better when used in the command line with it's autoremoval of uneeded dependencies and whatnot. Is it fine to just start using aptitude? or should I start over?
Christopher Miller
So I just updated my system and Infinality seems to have been removed from Arch for reasons unknown which has somehow completely broken my GTK theme and icon theme. I've uninstalled everything to do with Infinality and removed the repo from pacman.conf, to no avail, so I had to uninstall my GTK and icon themes because trying to switch to them wasn't having any effect at all. But now when I try to build the GTK theme (Numix) I'm getting this: /usr/lib/ruby/2.4.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:308:in `to_specs': Could not find 'sass' (>= 0.a) among 13 total gem(s) (Gem::MissingSpecError) Checked in 'GEM_PATH=/home/myusername/.gem/ruby/2.4.0:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0', execute `gem env` for more information from /usr/lib/ruby/2.4.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:320:in `to_spec' from /usr/lib/ruby/2.4.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_gem.rb:65:in `gem' from /usr/bin/scss:22:in `' make: *** [Makefile:17: css] Error 1 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package(). Aborting... ==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build numix-themes-archblue-git. ==> Restart building numix-themes-archblue-git ? [y/N]
Anyone know how to fix this shit? I don't know how Infinality could've even caused this.
Elijah Morgan
>execute `gem env` for more information
Daniel Rodriguez
>Could not find 'sass' (>= 0.a) among 13 total gem(s)
Looks like it's missing a dependency.
Eli Brown
Oh great, and the fucking icon theme which did actually build properly is still not working. What the fuck.
This might just be the straw that breaks the camel's back and drives me to another distro.
That was the problem. I had to install ruby-sass from the AUR.
Okay, so the Numix GTK theme builds fine now and works, but the icon theme, as I mentioned before, isn't working at all. When I try switching to it, nothing happens.
