TECH TIPS
How To Check If You’ve Been Hacked Within Seconds
Even if your password is a bit more complicated that “qwerty,” your information is always out there in the big, bad world of the Internet. Just this week, it was revealed that hundreds of millions of account details had been stolen from many popular email services and...
Tech Solutions: How can I vet poor answers from expert answers?
Stack Exchange gathers all the best tech forums (i.e. Stack Overflow) as well as some random forums and lists the top-rated experts in each tech category.
Why doesn’t rc.local run all my commands, and what can I do about it?
rc.local doesn't tolerate errors. rc.local doesn't provide a way to intelligently recover from errors. If any command fails, it stops running. The first line, #!/bin/sh -e, causes it to be executed in a shell invoked with the -e flag. The -e flag is what makes a...
Creating an Init Script in Ubuntu 14.04
In Ubuntu, you create init scripts using the SysV init system. Details are here. In this article, I will create a very simple script to start and stop Tomcat. In this tutorial, our goal is to start and stop Tomcat as the user “joe”. First, we will create a script...
Ubuntu: How to disable the touchpad?
Q: I want my touchpad to be disabled when I use my mouse. How can I do that? touchpad-indicator has stopped working on 11.10. It used to work on 11.04. Gnome3 is not a solution as I don't like it and find it buggy. A: Run the following command in a terminal: xinput...
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