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How do you monitor the progress of dd?
dd is a wonder allowing you to duplicate a hard drive to another, completely zero a hard drive, etc. But once you launch a dd command, there's nothing to tell you of it's progress. It just sits there ...
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Mouse text selection to paste buffer using middle click
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I have a Logitech Marble Mouse Trackball, with its scrolling ability configured as follows:
#!/bin/bash
dev="Logitech USB Trackball"
we="Evdev Wheel Emulation"
xinput set-int-prop "$dev" ...
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Can I make a second startup USB by simply coping the contents of existing one?
I'm trying to setup a bootable firewire device. For some reason the startup disk creator keeps crashing. I already have a bootable USB. Can I just copy and paste the files from the USB to the firewire ...
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copying files to usb stick never finished
I tried to copy 3.3GB iso file into a 64GB usb stick, the progress bar show completed but the copying operation windows doesn't closed after almost an hour now and still hanging not closed.
I'm using ...
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How do I move .doc and .xls files to a new folder?
Situation: I finally convinced my dad to let me install Xubuntu on his desktop, since Windows XP had become extremely bloated, old - it's a mess. So I installed Xubuntu 12.10 alongside the Windows ...
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Copying to ntfs from ubuntu slower than ext4 - why?
Is copying to ext4 faster than copying to ntfs, because I was making new containers today on ext4 speed was 45Mb on ntfs same container size speed 14Mb, both containers where madden from ubuntu with ...
