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ImaginaryRobots

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186 Answers

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149 votes

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How can I undo the last cd command?

answered Jul 16, 2012 at 18:22

75 votes

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How do I determine the uncompressed size of a zip file without decompressing it?

answered Jan 28, 2013 at 22:28

62 votes

Do I need to have antivirus software installed?

answered Nov 2, 2010 at 18:12

31 votes

apt-get or aptitude equivalent to yum whatprovides

answered Aug 17, 2010 at 15:58

23 votes

Create fillable or editable fields in a PDF

answered Jul 23, 2012 at 21:11

22 votes

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How can I close a root process "unknown TCP" that shows up in nethogs?

answered Jan 6, 2014 at 22:33

21 votes

How does Middle Click paste work?

answered Jul 24, 2012 at 16:24

19 votes

How do I change the computer name?

answered Dec 6, 2010 at 17:20

18 votes

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What does it mean "Processing Triggers for..." after installing/Uninstalling?

answered Aug 21, 2012 at 20:05

18 votes

How can I install Visual Studio?

answered Oct 1, 2012 at 20:18

18 votes

Why shouldn't /var/www have chmod 777

answered Oct 29, 2012 at 17:39

12 votes

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Is it possible to mirror the apt repositories?

answered Oct 27, 2010 at 20:05

12 votes

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Need to move my swap partition to let my root partition grow. How?

answered Oct 23, 2011 at 17:38

11 votes

GTK+ in Kubuntu apps look bad

answered Dec 22, 2011 at 17:34

10 votes

Opening the file browser of the remote machine via terminal and moving files around?

answered Oct 25, 2012 at 20:11

8 votes

Where are all the major log files located?

answered Sep 10, 2012 at 19:09

8 votes

Picture of a spaceship occasionally appears on my monitor when switching monitors

answered Oct 25, 2013 at 17:33

7 votes

How does the fstab 'defaults' option work? Is relatime recommended?

answered Jul 9, 2012 at 16:53

7 votes

Is there an offline command-line dictionary?

answered Sep 20, 2012 at 22:36

7 votes

cat command - will it overwrite?

answered Mar 29, 2011 at 16:14

7 votes

How can I install and download drivers without internet?

answered Oct 20, 2010 at 20:30

7 votes

GUI for iptables?

answered Aug 4, 2010 at 20:22

6 votes

How can I record my screen?

answered Apr 5, 2011 at 17:35

6 votes

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From where can I download the source code of the original kernel developed by Linus Torvalds?

answered Aug 27, 2012 at 17:03

6 votes

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Why does my .desktop file execute via double click but not from the menu?

answered Dec 14, 2012 at 20:02

5 votes

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How to safely back up the "Private" folder?

answered Aug 29, 2012 at 15:27

5 votes

How to add a "Show desktop" icon to the launcher?

answered Oct 17, 2011 at 17:26

4 votes

How to make folder writable to 2 users in different groups?

answered Apr 10, 2011 at 18:11

4 votes

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What are e2fsck and fsck and how do I use them?

answered Aug 30, 2012 at 15:41

4 votes

Couldn't find package dd

answered Oct 30, 2012 at 16:37

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