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What version of Python do I have?
How can I find out what versions of Python I have?
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr).
sigdelsanjog
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Change niceness (priority) of a running process
Is it possible to set a new nice level of a running process with a known id?
Does this operation require root access, or just being the owner of the process?
Adam Matan
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Get absolute path of files using 'find' command
Is there a way to get absolute path of a file that is being searched?
For example:
find .. -name "filename"
It gives me results like ../filename but I want the full path.
What I need is to find in the parent directory and its children, for a…
JorgeeFG
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How can I check disk space used in a partition using the terminal in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I was wondering if there is a command that can tell the space used in a partition using the terminal. Like I want to use the su command to change to a user called admin (it is named admin). So I typed :
su…
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How to stop Ubuntu from talking to me?
The title may sound silly, but on Ubuntu 13.10, I'm getting frequent audible notifications using text to speech.
Is this the "speech dispatcher" and how can I disable it?
ljs.dev
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Unable to format USB drive with Disks (udisks-error-quark, 0)
Upon trying to make a startup disk (USB) for Ubuntu 12.04, the system prevented boot loader installation. I'm getting message:
Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (udisks-error-quark, 0)
Can I still use the startup…
Ramesh Sukumaran
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How to restart WiFi connection?
I think I do not have problem with hardware. Sometimes the WiFi connection simply disconnects, apparently. So this is not necessarily the same as this case, I might not need to reload any modules.
But how to just restart wlan0? I tried restart…
wifan
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How do I install Python 3.3?
I have downloaded Python 3.3 from the official site but no idea how to install it.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04
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How to network two Ubuntu computers using ethernet (without a router)?
How can I network two Ubuntu computers, so that they can "see" each other at an IP address?
James
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How to search for strings inside files in a folder?
Is there any utility to make searches for a string inside ASCII files to avoid command line searches?
How to make a command line search, for example for the string "test" inside all files in the directory /var/x/?
Nuno
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How to reinitialize a terminal window instead of closing it and starting a new one?
When I make some changes to the shell/bash behavior, such as setting up an alias, is there a quick command to reinitialize the terminal window instead of closing and opening a new window?
NES
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How to disable built-in Wi-Fi and use only USB Wi-Fi card?
The built-in Wi-Fi card in my laptop (Dell XPS M1330) is crap, pretty much. I have an Asus USB Wi-Fi card, which is significantly better and works fine.
What I'd like to do is disable the built-in Wi-Fi card.
Is there a way to do this without having…
Matt
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How to remove wine completely
How can I remove the wine folder and all the applications in that folder?
I've tried via synaptic but it keeps showing up in the application menu.
peter
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How can I install on a non-PAE CPU? (error "Kernel requires features not present on the CPU: PAE")
After burning Ubuntu 12.04 to a CD, I tried booting and got the message:
This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU:
pae
Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU.
What does this mean?
oshirowanen
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Systemd logs (`journalctl`) are too large and slow
My journalctl is keeping over 300 MB of logs as revealed by journalctl --disk-usage. Everything appears to be in order when I run journalctl --verify:
$ journalctl --disk-usage
Archived and active journals take up 328.0M on disk.
$ journalctl…
WinEunuuchs2Unix
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