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 | So I've had a media server for a while using Plex as the software with a Terra Master as the hardware. I've become dissatisfied with both for various reasons and I'd like to make my own, but I'm also open to Plex alternatives recommendations. What I want to do is …  |
| | I've got a Windows 11 laptop but I need to set it up as a dual boot for Windows 10. The only dual boot I've ever done was Linux/Windows, I've never done a dual boot windows/windows. Should I expect any issues? After installing the additional windows 10 will I still … |
| | I've recently gotten my first ID job as a PHP programmer but one of the tasks that bites my is JS/jQuery, I don't know JS/jQuery but now i'm having to use it. I'm taking a course on udemy.com but I'm having issues, sometimes the code executes and sometimes noting happens …  |
| | My daughter has a desktop computer and she needs more memory to run some of her applications. I've checked it out as best as I know how but all I can come up with is that the memory in it is 8 GB of ADATA XPG memory, and she has …  |
| | I was going fair on my Udemy networking course until I go to lesson 47. Subnetting Large Networks Part 2, my brain started smoking. Up to this point I had been dividing the network/hosts on the forth octet. And when counting the bits that I was going to borrow from … |
| | I'm taking a Cisco course on Udemy.com and doens't assume any prior network knowledge. Although I can maintain my home network usually without a hassle (at least before my supid !@#$ bought a mesh system that MUST be maintained with an app) I don't have any larger network knowledge. I … |
| | I don't do a lot on my computer anymore and on the odd change that actually play a game on it it's usually and older game so there's not problem. However there is one part of the game Dieing Light that I can't play because the game becomes too choppy, …  |
| | ERROR 1054 (42S22): Unknown column 'Firstname' in 'field list' I'M gettin the above error when I enter: mysql> insert into people (fname, lname) -> VALUES (Firstname, Lastname); Here's the table: mysql> desc people; +-------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | fname … |
| | I have an iBasso DX50 high res digital music player and the auxiliary ports are wearing out. How can I pop these off without damaging the device and what will I need to attach the new ones that I just got from Amazon? Image attached...disregard that I don’t see a … |
| | I’m looking for a music app to play my music library for Android, here’s what I do and don’t need. I don’t use monthly pay services or use DRM is encumbered music Files. I have a library on my computer consisting of mp3, flacc, and wav files. I want to … |
| | This may not be the best room to post this in but I didn't see any room that really jumped out at me for this, and since I'm doing all this on Linux desktop it made sense. I'm having trouble placing the meta data (artists, album, title) for a .wav … |
| | My dad has an older laptop that I intalled Linux Mint on a long time ago and he loves his Linux Mint. For Father's Day I got him an SSD but when I would get to the part of the installation where it needs to format the drive it would … |
| | My daughter is into making youtube videos but she's been pretty disapointed in the camara/software that came with her laptop. I just purchased her an independant web cam but I need some suggestions on software for her to use for capturing and making her youtube videos. I can't remember if … |
| | Linux Mint So I'm trying to learn French but I'm running into some complications when it comes to finding a good keyboard layout. Here are the layouts that I've tried so far: English (US) English (international Alt Gr dead keys) English (UK, international with dead keys) English (UK, extended WinKeys) …  |
| | I'm wanting to build a new computer but I'm having trouble, it's been a long time since I've built one and my head is starting to spin just looking at the options for motherboards. So you know what I'm working with this is my empty tower -> NZXT Source 210 … |
| | My brother has a Windows 10 laptop. I use Linux so I'm a little out of the loop when it comes to Windows. He's having problems and wants me to wipe it out and re-install it. Will I need to load the OS onto a USB drive first? If so …  |
| | I have an adroid phone, it's a descent phone and it's not that old yet several times here lately I have ran into problems installing or updatinga a few apps because my version of android is not supported. I think I need to upgrade but I've never done this before. … |
| | Re: Linux and gaming There are actually a lot of AAA games on Steam. Pretty much everything Valve ever produced is available on Steam, all the Half-Life titles (the original Half-Life, all the spin offs, Half-Life 2, Team Fortress Classic / 2, Portal 1 & 2, etc...) Metro Last Light, Dying Light was released … |
| | A while ago I had a file on my windows desktop with a lot of my email accounts that I use for very specific purposes like online forums or shopping, and each one's password. I don't know what on earth has happened but I can't find that file anywhere. I … |
| | I just installed a new WD HDD. All I did was physicaly place the HDD in the computer and turn it on, now I'm getting this error. Imaged attached, any ideas? Thanks. |
| | I need a recomendation for a good motherboard and accompianing CPU. Here's what I'm looking for. Compatible with Linux plenty of USB ports plenty of sata ports, may be a dual boot Linux/Windows/SteamOS Although I don't currently do a lot of high end gaming, or gaming at all, but I … |
| | I have a router in one room of my house and wires running through the house into my bedroom where it's connected to a switch that further connected to several different computers in my room. What I am wanting to know is how the traffic flows from one computer to … |
| | I have recently discovered that my music directory and the micro sd card that's in my hand held media player (iBasso DX50) are not in sync, I don't have any idea how that could have happened. There are songs in both my music directory that are that are not on … |
| | I recently purchased Terra-Master F4-220 but I can not sign in via ssh. I thing is I don't think it's on the TM end, I think it's on my debian server's end. When I do try and connect this is what I get. $ssh [email protected] /etc/ssh/ssh_config: line 55: Bad configuration … |
| | I am looking to buy a motherboard and I'm looking for lots of USB and sata ports, it should fit in this case -> item# N82E16811146077 on newegg.com and will work well with Linux for my main desktop, and a windows and SeamOS drives as well for gaming? Will this … |
| | I've downloaded the file "qt-unified-windows-x86-3.0.0-online.exe" and installed Qt and I've also downloaded and unpacked the file "PyQt5_gpl-5.9.zip". I'm using Python 3.6 but I can't figure out where to drop the extracted PyQt5 files. I can't find a Python directory anywhere on my C: drive except for under my home directory. … |
| | I recently created a post thinking I had blown up my bootloader but I've actually narrowed the problem down to the SSD on which my home directory is mounted. The reason my computer has not been booting is because my system is not mounting my home directory's SSD. This started …  |
| | Today I just put a new SSD in my desktop. I did have a little trouble booting up the OS because I had plugged the DVI into the wrong port, when I couldn't see the monitor I did end up turning off the computer several times before I finally found … |
| | I've been using rsync and or luckybackup for a while now to sync my desktop's music library to my micro sd card for my digital music player. Today I noticed that my music player wasn't showing one of my albums so I've started investigating and I've found that it's not … |
| | I'm having trouble mounting my android's micro sd card. When I run lsusb I see the entry for the card `lsusb` - > `Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 multicard reader` I have also validated that the device is sdf. me@mothership ~ $ sudo mount …  |
| | I recently built a crypto currency miner and I'm using Linux Mint as my OS for the miner. I manually turn on the miner by navigating to ~/Desktop/claymore and running ./start_only_eth.bash and my miner starts mining. So i palced this line `./home/ethereum/Desktop/claymore/start_only_eth.bash` in the /etc/init.d/rc.local file but I don't think … |
| | A while back I built a computer with an Asus motherboard, a SSD, and two milk creates for a cheap case, and I had Xubuntu installed on it. I have tried to install Xubuntu on it again several times today but it always fails to create the partitions. I keep … |
| | I have been downloading old kid's readio stories and trying to burn them onto mp3 CDs for my daughter. The problem is that when she plays the CDs on the mp3 CD player in her room the tracks are not in order. I have edited the meta-data and labeld every … |
| | I recently purchased a new Vizio 55" LED 1080p tv but I'm having trouble connection my Nintendo 64 to it. The red & white audio cable are working fine and I'm getting all of the audio but there is not yellow port on my new tv for the N64's yellow … |
| | I recent created a .vimrc file in my home directory because in addition to syntax highlighting and auto indention I also wanted my tabs to be four columns wide and to be tabs and not spaces but now that I have my file setup I am unable to use backspace …  |
| | [Linux Mint] Linux Mint I'm following a book on Django and it has this -> https://hellowebapp.com/setup/ accompanying website. Take a look below at what I'm getting when I get to the "Start your Django project" section of the link. Here's a peak at my terminal input and feedback. (venv) user@mothership … |
| | I'm trying to reset my mariadb password following this site -> https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-reset-your-mariadb-root-password/ but when I enter `mysql -u root` I get the following error: `ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2 "No such file or directory")` Any ideas? Thanks. |
| | `grep -v "#EXTINF:" All.m3u | sed 's#../##'g` I'm using the line above to try and make the playlists that I export from Banshee compatible with my digital music player. When I run the sed portion of this script I'm trying to remove the portion of the path up to where … |
| | I just purchased an 240 GB SSD for my older Toshiba Satellite. I would rather not go through trying to save the files from the HDD and install the Linux Mint Debian Edition and then move all the files back, I would like to just be able to clone the … |
| | Linux Mint (Ubuntu). I'm looking for a way to encrypt some of my external HDDs. I was looking this option over -> https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/encrypt-your-data-with-encfs-on-ubuntu/ but I'm not sure how well this would work. I read this on the top portion of the site -> "It is a pass-through filesystem, not an … |
| | I have an older Toshiba Satellite laptop with Linux Mint OS installed. It pretty old and it's starting to show as it's getting slower. It's got a bigger screen and it's even got the num pad on the right of the keyboard in addetion to the numbers at the top. … |
| | My daughter has a Samsun Android tablet that has ran out of space so I purchased an sd card. The card is mounting and I reformatted it from the Android device but the device is still claiming to be full when she tries to install new apps. I tried this … |
| | After running rsync with the `-a --delete source dest` arguments on my music library to my sd card I am getting the following errors. default_perms_for_dir: sys_acl_get_file(Tears For Fears/Donnie Darko, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT): No such file or directory, falling back on umask rsync: mkstemp "/media/garrett/MUSIC-SD/Tears For Fears/Donnie Darko/.Mad World.mp3.yr2Xyc" failed: No such file … |
| | File drop database if exists contacts create database contacts; use contacts; create table names ( ID mediumint not null auto_increment primary key, firstName varchar(20), lastName varchar(20) ); create table addresses ( ID mediumint not null auto_increment primary key, nameID mediumint not null, addr1 varchar(30), addr2 varchar(30), city varchar(30), state varchar(10), …  |
| | I've tinkered with php in the past but I'v also enjoyed playing around with python. I have been wanting to give python a try as a possible alternative to php but I haven't had much luck. All of the videos I find on the subject are about setting up Django … |
| | python3 pythonscript.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "pythonscript.py", line 1, in <module> import pysftp as sftp File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pysftp/__init__.py", line 12, in <module> import paramiko File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/paramiko/__init__.py", line 30, in <module> from paramiko.transport import SecurityOptions, Transport File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/paramiko/transport.py", line 32, in <module> from cryptography.hazmat.backends import default_backend ImportError: No module named … |
| | I use firefox from Linux and Firefox keeps dropping my downloads, I don't know if this issue is specific to the Linux version or not. Is anyone else having this problem? Also, I looked through the settings but I don't see an option to limit the number of downloads that …  |
| | I'm trying to get my Mint desktop computer's home directory and my Debian media server's movies/shows directoiries backed up. When this is all said and done I'll be backing everything up to a 5 TB external USB HDD with it's own powers source connected to a Raspberry Pi 2 stored …  |
| | I've been wanting to build a backup server for my Mint desktop as well as for my Debian media server for a while now. To save money I purchased a Raspberry Pi 2 and I'm going to store it at a friends house who owns an ISP and thus has … |
| | My brothers laptop recently died, I believe due to a failed hard drive because when you turned it on you couldn't get out of the BIOS. I unscrewed the laptop's bottom from it's keyboard and replaced the hard drive but now it won't even turn on at all, I can't … |
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