I am trying to compile Apache Open Office 4.1.15 from source because I can’t find a precompiled package for Solaris 10. I am running Solaris 10 x86. I am following the readme instructions in main. I first run autoconf to generate the configure file, then I run the configure file […]
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I seem to be failing at one fundamental concept of linux. I have a second hard drive, that is mounted at /media/drive1/ and is owned by owner fu. On that drive, the directory database (/media/drive1/database) is owned by owner bar. Somehow, if I set myself as bar i cannot cd […]
In a directory, I have 3 files, all with the incorrect file extension jpgJPG. When I type dir *.j I get no results, as expected. When I type dir *.jp I get no results, as expected. But when I type dir *.jpg it lists the 3 files, even though the […]
How can I use ffmpeg to extract the frames of a video that have no motion blur? Using ffprobe -f lavfi -i "movie=mymovie.mov,blurdetect[out0]" -show_entries tags=lavfi.blur -of default=nw=1 -v quiet I have learned that the lowest lavfi.blur values of my video are in the range 7-8. For my video, there are […]
When I start Thunderbird, I get a standard icon* in the task bar, but then sometimes the icon changes. The icon changes when a child window is opened. It produces two icons, both related to the child window. It seems to me to be a bug that the icon does […]
Navigate to https://app.y.gy/docs and scroll down the page and notice what it says: Alternatively, y.gy allows URL shortening and QR code generation directly from the landing page without requiring sign-in or account creation. Then navigate to https://app.y.gy/ Do not sign in. I see a input field for the long URL […]
A more in depth explaination would be found here. The use case of what I’m trying to do is: You login to your desktop Linux computer. You start a script and as input you give to it a time in the future, like 2 hours from now. Then the script […]
To give some context, I have a desktop computer that, for the past few weeks, has been experiencing network problems at certain times during the day (often every 30 minutes, but sometimes not for 3 to 5 hours). The connection to any type of network is lost for 1 to […]
Ever since I updated to iOS 18, my iPhone often fails to switch bluetooth audio devices. Mostly this means that after I have used my AirPods at the health club (and then put my buds in their case) it does not connect to my Toyota Prius speakers. And after I […]