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Unable to use NTFS partition for Dropbox in Linux

- by Cristian

Dropbox won't let me choose the sync folder inside a NTFS partition. First thought I had was mounting and its permissions (the Dropbox installer does let me choose my linux home as the Dropbox home). After searching and trying several other lines, the partition is mounted via fstab with these settings: /dev/sda5 /mnt/documents ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=100,dmask=027,fmask=137 0 0 I can read and write in the partition, here is a ls output: 24 drwxr-x--- 1 tuxcayc users 24576 Sep 2 06:42 documents I'm using an Arch-based distro (Manjaro) and Dropbox installed via yaourt. I guess it's still some issue with mounting permissions. Any help is appreciated, Thanks.

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firefox raided?

- by dschinn1001

ubuntu 12.10 with firefox 17.0 firefox is now suddenly not starting any more ? (since I tried something with virtualbox and win7 firefox seems to be raided somehow ? - then after next boot virtualbox with win7 did not work any more and had message like here: Premature end of data in tag VirtualBox line 8. Location: '/home/$user/VirtualBox VMs/V12/V12.vbox', line 86 (8), column 2. /home/vbox/vbox-4.2.4/src/VBox/Main/src-server/MachineImpl.cpp[724] (nsresult Machine::registeredInit()). Fehlercode: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) Komponente: Machine Interface: IMachine {22781af3-1c96-4126-9edf-67a020e0e858} ) this happened all - after win7 made an update and virtual hard-disk with size of normally 25 Gibi exceeded to 26.8 Gibi I plugged (when I created virtualbox with win7) usb-hard-disk with 500 Gibi, but somehow win7 was not installed on disk with 500 Gibi - instead only virtual-harddisk with default 25 Gibi was created - and smaller harddisk with maximum of 120 Gibi was restless stuffed out. This created then the problem with "raided" firefox and firefox cannot start any more. After I delelted virtualbox with win7 - there are 12 Gibi free space back on the smaller harddisk - but firefox remains after reboot out-of-function and does not start.

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How To Access Your eBook Collection Anywhere in the World

- by Jason Fitzpatrick

If you have an eBook reader it’s likely you already have a collection of eBooks you sync to your reader from your home computer. What if you’re away from home or not sitting at your computer? Learn how to download books from your personal collection anywhere in the world (or just from your backyard). You have an eBook reader, you have an eBook collection, and when you remember to sync your books to the collection on your computer everything is rosy. What about when you forget or when the syncing process for your device is a bit of a hassle? (We’re looking at you, iPad.) Today we’re going to show you how to download eBooks to your eBook reader from anywhere in the world using a cross-platform solution Latest Features How-To Geek ETC How to Use the Avira Rescue CD to Clean Your Infected PC The Complete List of iPad Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials Is Your Desktop Printer More Expensive Than Printing Services? 20 OS X Keyboard Shortcuts You Might Not Know HTG Explains: Which Linux File System Should You Choose? HTG Explains: Why Does Photo Paper Improve Print Quality? Sunrise on the Alien Desert Planet Wallpaper Add Falling Snow to Webpages with the Snowfall Extension for Opera [Browser Fun] Automatically Keep Up With the Latest Releases from Mozilla Labs in Firefox 4.0 A Look Back at 2010 Through Infographics Monitor the Weather with the Weather Forecast Extension for Opera Orbiting at the Edge of the Atmosphere Wallpaper

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VirtualBox : increase hard disk size of the virtual machine

- by wim

I have run out of space on my WinXP virtual machine, which I only gave 10 GB space for when I created it. Is there an easy way to increase it to, say, 20 GB? I can't see any obvious option in VirtualBox settings. edit: the suggestion below gives this error wim@wim-ubuntu:/media/data/winxp_vm$ VBoxManage modifyhd wim.vdi --resize 20000 VBoxManage: error: Cannot register the hard disk '/media/data/winxp_vm/wim.vdi' {46284957-2c09-4e70-8a49-bfbe0f7f681d} because a hard disk '/home/wim/VirtualBox VMs/winxp_vm/wim.vdi' with UUID {46284957-2c09-4e70-8a49-bfbe0f7f681d} already exists VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057), component VirtualBox, interface IVirtualBox, callee nsISupports Context: "OpenMedium(Bstr(pszFilenameOrUuid).raw(), enmDevType, AccessMode_ReadWrite, fForceNewUuidOnOpen, pMedium.asOutParam())" at line 210 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp edit2: removing the .vdi from VirtualBox before calling VBoxManage command, then adding it back in, was successful. But now I can't boot the virtual machine, I get this worrying screen: By the way, it says FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted. edit3: The vdi must be reattached to the VM after VBoxManage command. Further, the partition will need to be resized from WITHIN windows, because you will have this empty space: I was able to resize the partition easily using a bit of freeware called EASEUS Partition Master 9.1.0 Home Edition.

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Can't boot into Ubuntu from CD, or from Acronis True Image recovery disk

- by ChrisA

I can boot my computer off a home-burned-from-ISO-image Windows 7 (x64 or x86) installation CD, without problems. It's a Quad 6600, 4GB RAM, 8800GT and most of the time runs Win7 with no problems. However, if I boot off a CD containing Ubuntu (10.04 or 9.something IIRC), or a recovery disk created with Acronis True Image Home 2010, it: boots starts to load the OS from the CD then hangs ... and I have to reset. I've tried all these CDs on another computer, and they boot up into Ubuntu or Acronis respectively with no problems at all. Any ideas what to look for? Sorry this is a little vague but I have no idea where to start, really ... if there's more information needed I'll edit the question. TIA!

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Save Website To Disk

- by Christian

Hello everyone! I have a very poor internet connection when I'm living at home. The only time I have a good internet is at college. When I get home, the most mundane task like opening a web-page becomes a five minute stress-test. So what I was thinking was to download the web-page, for example superdickery. I was wondering what the best method would be to download the entire image archive of the page? Would this be illegal, if I did this? It's just that I don't want to be frustrated every time I just want to load a simple jpeg image.

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Mac OSX Server 10.6 DNS Issues

- by dallasclark

The server was upgraded from 10.5 from 10.6, during the upgrade the Reverse Zones were lost so I tried to recreate these but found that it's best to delete all zones, definitions and start again. So I've started again and Reverse Zones are appearing but I'm still having issues. I receive the following errors (if they help) 01-Nov-2010 12:52:01.254 client 192.168.1.52#57051: view com.apple.ServerAdmin.DNS.public: query (cache) 'server.dev.home.gateway/A/IN' denied 01-Nov-2010 12:59:24.487 client 192.168.1.52#52858: view com.apple.ServerAdmin.DNS.public: query (cache) 'earth.server.dev.home.gateway/A/IN' denied At the moment I have the following setup in the DNS 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. Reverse Zone 192.168.1.100 Reverse Mapping MacPro-Server.local. server.dev. Primary Zone server.dev. Machine 192.168.1.100 earth.server.dev. Alias server.dev.

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What to look for in a good cheap color laser printer?

- by torbengb

My old color inkjet is giving up, and I'm considering laser to replace it. There are several good questions about color laser printers, but none of them summarize the pro's and con's. So here goes: I am looking to buy a color printer for home use, mostly for photos (at least medium-quality) and also for low-volume b/w text. Duplex would be neat but not a must. One aspect per answer, please: What aspects should I consider, what should I look for, what should I avoid in a home color laser printer? I'll make this a community wiki because there won't be one single definite answer. I'll post a few ideas of my own but I'm hoping to get many useful insights.

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Install VLC 2.0.7 in CentOS 6.4?

- by raaz

I am keep failing in the installation process I have tried. I have started process as follows. yum install gcc dbus-glib-devel* lua-devel* libcddb wget http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/2.0.7/vlc-2.0.7.tar.xz tar -xf vlc-2.0.7.tar.xz && cd vlc-2.0.7 ./configure in the configure I am getting the error as follows configure: WARNING: No package 'libcddb' found: CDDB access disabled. checking for Linux DVB version 5... yes checking for DVBPSI... no checking gme/gme.h usability... no checking gme/gme.h presence... no checking for gme/gme.h... no checking for SID... no configure: WARNING: No package 'libsidplay2' found (required for sid). checking for OGG... no configure: WARNING: Library ogg >= 1.0 needed for ogg was not found checking for MUX_OGG... no configure: WARNING: Library ogg >= 1.0 needed for mux_ogg was not found checking for SHOUT... no configure: WARNING: Library shout >= 2.1 needed for shout was not found checking ebml/EbmlVersion.h usability... no checking ebml/EbmlVersion.h presence... no checking for ebml/EbmlVersion.h... no checking for LIBMODPLUG... no configure: WARNING: No package 'libmodplug' found No package 'libmodplug' found. checking mpc/mpcdec.h usability... no checking mpc/mpcdec.h presence... no checking for mpc/mpcdec.h... no checking mpcdec/mpcdec.h usability... no checking mpcdec/mpcdec.h presence... no checking for mpcdec/mpcdec.h... no checking for libcrystalhd/libcrystalhd_if.h... no checking mad.h usability... no checking mad.h presence... no checking for mad.h... no configure: error: Could not find libmad on your system: you may get it from http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/. Alternatively you can use --disable-mad to disable the mad plugin. [root@localhost vlc-2.0.7]# So I went to libmad http location and downloaded it and while doing make it gave me the errors.There are no errors at ./configure with libmad but make not going through. [root@localhost libmad-0.15.0b]# make (sed -e '1s|.*|/*|' -e '1b' -e '$s|.*| */|' -e '$b' \ -e 's/^.*/ *&/' ./COPYRIGHT; echo; \ echo "# ifdef __cplusplus"; \ echo 'extern "C" {'; \ echo "# endif"; echo; \ if [ ".-DFPM_INTEL" != "." ]; then \ echo ".-DFPM_INTEL" | sed -e 's|^\.-D|# define |'; echo; \ fi; \ sed -ne 's/^# *define *\(HAVE_.*_ASM\).*/# define \1/p' \ config.h; echo; \ sed -ne 's/^# *define *OPT_\(SPEED\|ACCURACY\).*/# define OPT_\1/p' \ config.h; echo; \ sed -ne 's/^# *define *\(SIZEOF_.*\)/# define \1/p' \ config.h; echo; \ for header in version.h fixed.h bit.h timer.h stream.h frame.h synth.h decoder.h; do \ echo; \ sed -n -f ./mad.h.sed ./$header; \ done; echo; \ echo "# ifdef __cplusplus"; \ echo '}'; \ echo "# endif") >mad.h make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/home/raja/Downloads/libmad-0.15.0b' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/raja/Downloads/libmad-0.15.0b' if /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -DFPM_INTEL -DASO_ZEROCHECK -Wall -march=i486 -g -O -fforce-mem -fforce-addr -fthread-jumps -fcse-follow-jumps -fcse-skip-blocks -fexpensive-optimizations -fregmove -fschedule-insns2 -fstrength-reduce -MT version.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/version.Tpo" \ -c -o version.lo `test -f 'version.c' || echo './'`version.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/version.Tpo" ".deps/version.Plo"; \ else rm -f ".deps/version.Tpo"; exit 1; \ fi mkdir .libs gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -DFPM_INTEL -DASO_ZEROCHECK -Wall -march=i486 -g -O -fforce-mem -fforce-addr -fthread-jumps -fcse-follow-jumps -fcse-skip-blocks -fexpensive-optimizations -fregmove -fschedule-insns2 -fstrength-reduce -MT version.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/version.Tpo -c version.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/version.lo cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-fforce-mem" make[2]: *** [version.lo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/raja/Downloads/libmad-0.15.0b' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/raja/Downloads/libmad-0.15.0b' make: *** [all] Error 2 how can i resolve the issue and install VLC in my Centos ? I am using CentOS 6.4 . Thank you.

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Does SpinRite do what it claims to do?

- by romandas

I don't have any real (i.e. professional) experience with Steve Gibson's SpinRite so I'd like to put this to the SF community. Does SpinRite actually do what it claims? Is it a good product to use? With a proper backup solution and RAID fault tolerance, I've never found need for it, but I'm curious. There seems to be some conflicting messages regarding it, and no hard data to be found either way. On one hand, I've heard many home users claim it helped them, but I've heard home users say a lot of things -- most of the time they don't have the knowledge or experience to accurately describe what really happened. On the other hand, Steve's own description and documentation don't give me a warm fuzzy about it either. So what is the truth of the matter? Would you use it?

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What are the risks of installing a "bad quality" package?

- by ændrük

When I try to install sonic-visualiser_1.9cc-1_amd64.deb via the Software Center the following warning message is displayed: The package is of bad quality The installation of a package which violates the quality standards isn't allowed. This could cause serious problems on your computer. Please contact the person or organisation who provided this package file and include the details beneath. Lintian check results for /home/ak/Downloads/sonic-visualiser_1.9cc-1_amd64.deb: Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"HOME"} in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/lintian line 108. E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/ 1000/1000 E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/bin/ 1000/1000 E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/bin/sonic-visualiser 1000/1000 E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/ 1000/1000 E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/applications/ 1000/1000 E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/applications/sonic-visualiser.desktop 1000/1000 E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/doc/ 1000/1000 E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/doc/sonic-visualiser/ 1000/1000 E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/doc/sonic-visualiser/CHANGELOG 1000/1000 E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/doc/sonic-visualiser/COPYING 1000/1000 E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/doc/sonic-visualiser/README 1000/1000 E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/mimelnk/ 1000/1000 E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/mimelnk/application/ 1000/1000 E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-sonicvisualiser-layer.desktop 1000/1000 E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-sonicvisualiser.desktop 1000/1000 E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pixmaps/ 1000/1000 E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pixmaps/sv-icon-light.svg 1000/1000 E: sonic-visualiser: wrong-file-owner-uid-or-gid usr/share/pixmaps/sv-icon.svg 1000/1000 I understand that this means the package doesn't meet Debian policy and I know how to override the warning and install the package anyway. What are the risks of doing so?

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Sharing internet connection over VPN in Windows XP

- by Nigel Hawthorne

How can I share my internet connection with VPN clients using the Windows XP built-in VPN server? I want to be able to use my home internet connection (on an XP machine) from my anywhere using my laptop (Windows 7 machine). The built-in VPN server in XP and the VPN client in Windows 7 seem to do a great job of giving me access to both machines securely over the internet, but I cannot find a way to use ICS in conjunction with the incoming connection to give access to my home internet connection to my laptop remotely. Is there a way to do this? or is there an alternative VPN server software that is not limited to only local access?

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Highlight current page tab [migrated]

- by Jose David Garcia Llanos

I am making a website, currently i am setting the highlight tab for current page, a particular page is not highlighting its tab and i have checked the code about 5 times but i cant find anything wrong with it. the website is auto-sal.es Here is the code: style.css body#home a.hometab, body#cars a.cartab, body#feedback a.feedtab, body#contact a.contacttab, body#members a.memberstab {background: #7D0000;} contactus.html <body id="contact"> navigation <ul id="menu"> <li><a href="index.html" target="_self" class="hometab">Home</a></li> <li><a href="cars.html" target="_self" class="cartab">Cars</a></li> <li><a href="feedback.html" target="_self" class="feedtab">Feedback</a></li> <li><a href="contactus.html" target="_self" class="cotacttab">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a href="members.html" target="_self" class="memberstab">Members</a></li> </ul> Again, the issue is that it is not highlighting the tab for contact us

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WP E Commerce Safe Mode restriction error [on hold]

- by Mustafa Kamal

I have my online shop, created with WP Ecommerce getting broken after I moved it to another server. I could be sure that the problem comes from WP Ecommerce because when I disable that plugin. Everything run as expected. This is the exact error message Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 515 is not allowed to access /tmp owned by uid 0 in /home/mikalu/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/wpsc-core/wpsc-constants.php on line 17 Fatal error: session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: Failed to initialize storage module: files (path: ) in /home/mikalu/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/wpsc-core/wpsc-constants.php on line 17 I've tried to turn off safe mode on my php configuration. nothing happens. the error's still there. I thought it was some kind of permission issue, so I tried to change /tmp permission to 777. Nothing happens. I googled it some more and suspect it might have something to do with fastCGI configuration and stuff. Which I totally don't understand. My googling result mostly suggest me to consult the web hosting provider or even to move to another host. But in this case, I am the owner of the server (VPS with cPanel/WHM). And I don't have any idea how to solve this kind of problem.

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How do I add and/or keep subtitles when converting video?

- by JoeSteiger

I have a mkv video I want to convert to mp4, but every which way I try and convert it (Handbrake, WinFF, ffmpeg, mencoder,...I lose the video's subtitles. How can I convert the video,keeping the subtitles, or add a subtitles.srt? I also would like 2 pass encoding with a video bitrate of 4054 and audio bitrate of 160. Thanks. I was asked for the ffmpeg -i: joe@joe-Leopard-Extreme:/media/Elements/Home Folder/Videos$ ffmpeg -i iron.mkv ffmpeg version 0.8.3-4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the Libav developers built on Jun 12 2012 16:52:09 with gcc 4.6.3 *** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED *** This program is only provided for compatibility and will be removed in a future release. Please use avconv instead. [matroska,webm @ 0x1a319a0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'iron.mkv': Metadata: title : Iron Duration: 02:06:01.67, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1280 kb/s Chapter #0.0: start 0.000000, end 546.170622 Metadata: title : Chapter 00 Chapter #0.1: start 546.170622, end 1080.579489 Metadata: title : Chapter 01 Chapter #0.2: start 1080.579489, end 1609.941667 Metadata: title : Chapter 02 Chapter #0.3: start 1609.941667, end 2101.849733 Metadata: title : Chapter 03 Chapter #0.4: start 2101.849733, end 2595.259333 Metadata: title : Chapter 04 Chapter #0.5: start 2595.259333, end 3158.488667 Metadata: title : Chapter 05 Chapter #0.6: start 3158.488667, end 3564.644400 Metadata: title : Chapter 06 Chapter #0.7: start 3564.644400, end 4052.423356 Metadata: title : Chapter 07 Chapter #0.8: start 4052.423356, end 4304.300000 Metadata: title : Chapter 08 Chapter #0.9: start 4304.300000, end 4711.206489 Metadata: title : Chapter 09 Chapter #0.10: start 4711.206489, end 5080.575489 Metadata: title : Chapter 10 Chapter #0.11: start 5080.575489, end 5700.111067 Metadata: title : Chapter 11 Chapter #0.12: start 5700.111067, end 6269.346400 Metadata: title : Chapter 12 Chapter #0.13: start 6269.346400, end 6811.471333 Metadata: title : Chapter 13 Chapter #0.14: start 6811.471333, end 7561.679000 Metadata: title : Chapter 14 Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, s16, 640 kb/s (default) Metadata: title : 3/2+1 Stream #0.2(ita): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, s16, 640 kb/s Metadata: title : 3/2+1 Stream #0.3(eng): Subtitle: pgssub (default) Stream #0.4(eng): Subtitle: pgssub Stream #0.5(eng): Subtitle: pgssub Stream #0.6(eng): Subtitle: pgssub At least one output file must be specified joe@joe-Leopard-Extreme:/media/Elements/Home Folder/Videos

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Setting up nginx as proxy to apache; All good, but nginx doesn't serve media

- by becomingGuru

I have set it up such that nginx proxies request and sends django requests to apache and serves media itself. Following documents my setup: Nginx Configuration: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf user www-data; worker_processes 1; error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log; pid /var/run/nginx.pid; events { worker_connections 1024; } http { include /etc/nginx/mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream; access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log; sendfile on; tcp_nopush on; #keepalive_timeout 0; keepalive_timeout 65; tcp_nodelay on; gzip on; include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*; } ===== ngnix proxy /etc/nginx/proxy.conf ============ proxy_redirect off; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; client_max_body_size 10m; client_body_buffer_size 128k; proxy_connect_timeout 90; proxy_send_timeout 90; proxy_read_timeout 90; proxy_buffer_size 4k; proxy_buffers 4 32k; proxy_busy_buffers_size 64k; proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k; =========== Nginx server file: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/some-name.txt ========== server { listen 208.109.252.110:80; server_name netconf; autoindex on; access_log /home/site/server_logs/nginx_access.log; error_log /home/site/server_logs/nginx_error.log; location / { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:80/; include /etc/nginx/proxy.conf; } location /site_media/ { root /home/site/folder/static; } } ========== Nginx very well proxies the request and passes to apache, the required requests, but doesn't serve the media. In the last server file, location site_media is not served, at all. :( Everything seems perfect to me. What is wrong? Thanks in advance.

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Delete file then run file at startup

- by Henry Gibson

I'm running the music player Foobar2000 through Wine at startup. For some reason when I shutdown Ubuntu the Foobar2000 process is ended abnormally in Wine and when it runs next time I get an annoying "start in safe mode?" message. Not a huge problem, but I'd like it fixed. The safe mode message only appears if a file called "running" is present when Foobar2000 starts (if it isn't deleted when closed properly). So by deleting "running" then starting Foobar2000, the message doesn't appear. I thought it would be easy enough to enter this as a startup command, however it doesn't want to work. The command I am using is rm '/home/henry/.wine/drive_c/users/henry/Application Data/foobar2000/running';'/home/henry/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/foobar2000/foobar2000.exe' which works fine if I just run it from terminal, the file is deleted then foobar2000 runs. Does anyone know why this isn't working at startup? Also, will this run with a terminal visible? How can I make just the gui appear? Thanks

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Boot linux off hard drive and then switch to run from usb flash disk

- by Jesse

I have an older laptop that I want to use as a simple media server on my home network. I would like to avoid using the internal hard drive except for booting (BIOS does NOT support booting from USB). My thought was to mirror the hard drive (currently has current install of Arch Linux) onto the flash drive and then after booting switch over to run everything from the flash drive. I read the following article about using a RAM disk (HOW-TO: Boot OS into RAM for speed and silence) but ran into problem because the USB subsystem does not seem to be initialized soon enough (I create root and home paritions on the flash disk and modified fstab to pick those - didn't work). Any thoughts?

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capture login screen-not sucssecful

- by yinon

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 . If more information is needed, please tell me. I Tried some guides to cature my login screen: How can I take a screenshot of the login screen? http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-take-a-screenshot-of-your-login-screen I tried the first one, but after running: $ sudo bash /tmp/shot.sh >/tmp/shot.xwd I'm getting this: No protocol specified No protocol specified xwd unable to open display ':0' and i'm getting an xwd file in my tmp folder. running the other commands giving errors. tried the second one, after running: chvt 8; sleep 5; XAUTHORITY=/var/gdm/:0.Xauth DISPLAY=:0.0 import -window root /tmp/gdm-login-shot.png I got: No protocol specified No protocol specified import: unable to open X server ':0.0' @ error/import.c/ImportImageCommand/366 Many Thanks for helping (: EDIT to vine_user: here the output from the terminal-I cacked it from within the system while I'm looged in: ubuntu@PrecisePangolin:~$ echo 'sleep 5; DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=/var/run/lightdm/root/$DISPLAYDISPLAY xwd -root' > /tmp/shot.sh ubuntu@PrecisePangolin:~$ sudo bash /tmp/shot.sh >/tmp/shot.xwd bash: /tmp/shot.xwd: Permission denied ubuntu@PrecisePangolin:~$ sudo su root@PrecisePangolin:/home/ubuntu# sudo bash /tmp/shot.sh >/tmp/shot.xwd No protocol specified No protocol specified xwd: unable to open display ':0' root@PrecisePangolin:/home/ubuntu# EDIT 2!: HERE IT IS!: just uploading-this uploadong site is better than other iuset to use (: :

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Dualboot 12.04/windows 7 After installation from USB reboot straight to Windows with no option to select ubuntu and no boot loader

- by Alkatraz

windows 7 home premium intel i5 2500k CPU ASUSP8Z68-V PRO Motherboard GeForce GTX 570 GPU corsair 120Gb SSD (windows 7 os) WD 1tb HDD I select the USB drive in the BIOS and boot to it and choose install. i select to manually configure partitions, partition the 200gb of unallocated space on my 1Tb HDD into 16Gb swap file 30Gb / extf4 and 154Gb /home extf4. I make sure that the boot loader is installed to corsair 120Gb SSD (where the windows boot is) and installation goes smoothly. When i reboot after install it runs through bios strait into windows. I have tried upwards of a dozen times and i have also tried with linuxmint. I have also redownloaded the ISO and used two different programs to create the live usb. the installation seems to go well as i can see the partitions i have created in the windows device manager after install http://imgur.com/Wp0V1 I currently run lubuntu on my laptop but it is not a dual boot. i'm assuming this is a boot loader issue and i am assuming that inside those partitioned files in my screenshot there is a working OS of ubuntu 12.04 i just have no way of getting to it.

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File/folder permissions and groups on Linux with Apache

- by phobia

I'm trying to learn about permissions on linux webserver with apache. Some clues to the system: The server I have to play around with is Fedora based. Apache runs as apache:apache. To allow for e.g. php to write to a file the file needs to be chmod 777. 755 is not sufficiant. What I'm wondering is basically how set up permissions like they should be on e.g. a "shared web host". My main problem is that if I set a permission so that one user cannot access anothers home folder, then apache can't read from the public_html folder either. To keep the users out I need to set chmod 700. But to let apache to read I need to have at least execute on world, so a 701 basically works, but won't let some users in. So I'm really stuck on what to do. Have been concidering adding the apache user to the frous grours below to avoid having to add the world execute flag, but is that a bad thing? Should it be the other way around, the users in the groups below should also be in the apache group? I was aiming at having 4 groups: 1. webapp same as dev_int, but is the only one that can go inside the webapp/live folder to e.g. do an update from the repo. 2. dev_int can read,write and execute everything in the "web root", including the two below, but nothing outside of the web root 3. dev_ext can read write and execute in all client folders, but cannot access anything outside of the webapp root 4. clientsBasic ftp accounts. Has a home folder with a public_html, but cannot access any other home folders An example of folder structure: webroot no users in the aforementioned groups can go outside of here some_project :dev_int only webapp live :webapp only staging :dev_int and :dev_ext clients :dev_int and :dev_ext client_1 :dev_int, :dev_ext and client1:clients public_html dev developer_1 developer_1:dev_int OR :dev_ext public_html

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Can .htaccess slow down a site?

- by Cody Sharp

I'm working with a client on an e-commerce website. I implemented clean URLs using .htaccess. I also used .htaccess to solve canonical issues such as redirecting www to non-www and removing index.php from the URL. The website recently began to slow down dramatically, sometimes not even loading. The site is hosted on GoDaddy, and when the client called GoDaddy they told him it was the .htaccess file slowing down the website. I find this highly unlikely because of my past experiences, but I'm not 100% sure. My thinking is that the client's website is most likely on a shared server with a busy neighborhood, thus slowing down the site. It's not always slow, but rather sporadic throughout the day, loading fast at some points and slow at other points in time. Can the .htaccess file slow down a website to a crawl? If so, are there better ways to solve these problems with different rewrite rules and such? Here is what the actual .htaccess file looks like: Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.net [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.net/$1 [L,R=301] RewriteRule ^products/([0-9a-zA-Z\_\-]*)\.htm([l]?)$ index.php p=product&product_code=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^catalog/([0-9a-zA-Z\_\-]*)\.htm([l]?)$ index.php p=catalog&catalog_code=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^pages/([0-9a-zA-Z\_\-]*)\.htm([l]?)$ index.php?p=page&page_id=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^index\.htm([l]?)$ index.php?p=home [L] RewriteRule ^site_map\.htm([l]?)$ index.php?p=site_map [L] RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^p=home$ RewriteRule (.*) ? [R=permanent] I'm a .htaccess and regex novice, so any pointed out mistakes would also help. Thank you.

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Why is my system waiting for google-analytics?

- by mikeroosa

When I go to certain websites that have google analytics, they never load up. One example is www.jquery.com. I tried in firefox, chrome, safari and explorer. Chrome & safari, flash the home page then it disappears and the screen goes white. Firefox never loads anything and the spinner just keeps spinning. Loads fine in explorer. Any ideas of what may be going on? If I use my laptop, on my same home internet connection, it works fine. This is not happening on all sites with analytics, just certain ones.

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Why is my system waiting for google-analytics?

- by mikeroosa

When I go to certain websites that have google analytics, they never load up. One example is www.jquery.com. I tried in firefox, chrome, safari and explorer. Chrome & safari, flash the home page then it disappears and the screen goes white. Firefox never loads anything and the spinner just keeps spinning. Loads fine in explorer. Any ideas of what may be going on? If I use my laptop, on my same home internet connection, it works fine. This is not happening on all sites with analytics, just certain ones.

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Share files from Windows XP to Mac Snow Leopard

- by sympleko

Hi, I have a Windows XP desktop and a MacBook Pro on my home network. I would like to mount my "home directory" (My Documents, or whatever they call it in Windows) onto my MacBook's filesystem. So far I have been able to do this with the Shared Documents folder, using the excellent howto at Maclive. But I'd like to be able to authenticate using my Windows XP username and password, and access my files remotely without exposing them to everyone on the nextwork. Any clues or good links?

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