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[PROBLEM] I've tried to "import" an already existing Virtualbox VM-client to a new setup: Copy the VM-client folder as-is from old setup to the folder where your VBox VM-clients reside. Add the machine: "Machine > Add" Then selected the ".vbox" file. Worked like a char...

Star Trek is based on things like: high standards /helping others / believing in good Free Software / Open Hardware Interoperable systems Repairable hardware Adjustable software No patents Beyond any commercial mindset "a few courageous people can make a difference" (Enterprise S02E19) It'...

Just ran into a related error message:

fusermount: user has no write access to mountpoint /mnt/xxx

The message pretty much includes the solution

I couldn't really find any documentation about the "quirks parameter" of the "usbhid" Linux kernel driver module :( However, I've located the related file in the sourcecode where the valid options (and their hex-values) are listed: They're located in " include/linux/hid.h &q...

Volumio 2.x:

I'm pretty sure I've written this down already in the past, but I can't find it - and I always forget which commands provide a "GUI" (text-based ;)) for viewing/enabling/disabling which startup-scripts (from /etc/init.d) are started/stopped in which runlevel. This information applies more ...

[PROBLEM] Setting up a new Burp backup server/client scenario. I ran into the following error when I tried to connect a client to get a list (or any other 'burp action'): $ burp -a l "Could not find ssl_cert /etc/burp/ssl_cert-client.pem: No such file or directory" Although client connect...

[PROBLEM] On Debian Jessie (8.6), whenever I want to install any new package (using "apt-get"), I get the following warning about my locale settings obviously being quirky. :? Can't set locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct! perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Ple...

[PROBLEM] It's a known thing, but sadly the change to "light locker" since Xubuntu 14.04 causes audio/music playback to be turned off when the session is locked :( It's (partially) on purpose, but... *sigh* The page about "Screen locking on Xubuntu 14.04" (xubuntu.org) lists 3 wo...

[PROBLEM] Avahi is a nice, but strange animal: If it works it's convenient - but if you want to tell it what to announce and where, things get a bit "undocumented"... I've got a CUPS printing server running on Raspbian 8 (Jessie), and there are no ".service" files in /etc/avahi/...

Here's an option for disabling USB devices permanently from waking up (resuming) from suspend: (Xubuntu 16.04.3) Add the following lines to " /etc/rc.local ": echo "USBE" > /proc/acpi/wakeup echo "EUSB" > /proc/acpi/wakeup Thanks to a blog article by Thomas Monaco for t...

[PROBLEM] Synaptic on Xubuntu 16.04.3: Trying to install/upgrade some packages, I got the following error message: W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/root/.synaptic/tmp//tmp_cl' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) [SOLUTION] Seems it's just...

[PROBLEM] I'm using Docky on XFCE4. After doing some updates and changing configurations, I suddenly had a weird visible "line" at the bottom part of my screen. Seemed like a graphical glitch, but windows would snap to it, so it was somewhat "real" :? [SOLUTION] In XFCE's settin...

The command is this: pandoc -so output.pdf input.md Where you replace "output.pdf" and "input.md" with your destination and source file respectively. In order to generate PDF documents from Markdown (.md) files, you need the following packages installed: (This list should work fo...

This HowTo explains how to be able to suspend a (X)ubuntu machine using a keyboard shortcut. (That's super convenient. I loooove it! :D ) This method was tested on Xubuntu 12.04 and 16.04, but should work on all GNU/Linux distros that offer a shell-command for suspend. You need to configure your use...