How to find a wireless adapter‘s speed in Linux? ethtool does not show the speed of the wireless adapters. For finding the configured speed of wireless adpaters in Linux, you can use the iwconfig tool. iwconfig: configure a wireless network interface For example, to find the speed of the wireless adapter wlp8s0: # iwconfig wlp8s0…
After I installed XEN hypervisor, the tty0 (CTRL+ALT+F1) prints “powernow-k8 transition frequency failed” to STDOUT continously, how to solve it? sudo rmmod powernow_k8 From https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/01/msg00754.html How to make the settings persistent (take effect after reboot)? 1, Create script file ‘/etc/init.d/stop_pwoerk8.sh’ as follows. harry2vera@node1:/etc/init.d$ cat stop_pwoerk8.sh #! /bin/sh rmmod powernow_k8 2, Add the full PATH of…
What is the implementation of strstr in glibc? Implementation of STRSTR in glibc (string/strstr.c): /* Return the first occurrence of NEEDLE in HAYSTACK. Return HAYSTACK if NEEDLE is empty, otherwise NULL if NEEDLE is not found in HAYSTACK. */ char * STRSTR (const char *haystack_start, const char *needle_start) { const char *haystack = haystack_start; const…
How to disable the reverse DNS lookup by the SSD server on Linux? To turn off reverse DNS lookups of the SSH daemon, log on the server and add UseDNS no to /etc/ssh/sshd_config. And remember to restart the sshd service by service sshd restart or systemctl restart sshd.service or other commands depending on your system.
Gmail’s SMTP is convenient. You “sender” needs not to be always your Gmail address (but the emails will include your Gmail address in the header “send by”). I am wondering how many emails at maximum can I send each day through Gmail’s SMTP. Here there a nice recent list of the sending limits of the…
When you replace dynamic IP to static IP, you may need to restart your netwrok on Debian as follows. $sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart … …. reconfiguring network interfaces…rtnetlink answers file exists … However, error happens here “rtnetlink answers file exists”. How to solve it??? Run following commands could solve this problem # ip addr flush dev…
Vim itself is very fast. But it turns to be slow after enabling some plugins. How to find which plugin leads the slowness of Vim? You may use the profiling mechanisms in Vim. Please check a tutorial on profiling Vim. For profiling Vim startup: vim –startuptime profile.log For profiling certain actions in Vim: :profile start…
How to exclude last N columns of a string in bash? The point is that the number of columns in each line is uncertain (but > N). For example, I would like to remove the last 2 columns separated by ‘.’ in the following lines. systemd.3.gz systemd.mount.3.gz systemd.mount.f.3.gz The simple cut command cut -d’.’ -f1…
I cannot login desktop in Ubuntu Precise. It told me following errors: Could not write bytes: Broken Pipe… Check Battery Satte Actually, I tried many ways to solve this problem. It seems that something wrong with my lightdm software so, at last, I use gdm software to replace lightdm to kill this problem. Just install…
How to sort all the files in a directory and subdirectories recursively by modification time on Linux? You can make use of find (GNU find, or plus stat), sort and sed together to achieve recursively sort files by modification time: find . -type f -printf ‘%T@ %pn’ | sort -k 1 -n | sed ‘s/^[^…
YouCompleteMe for Vim on Fedora 21 reports this error: [zma@laptop:~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe]$ ./install.sh — The C compiler identification is GNU 4.9.2 — The CXX compiler identification is GNU 4.9.2 — Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc — Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc — works — Detecting C compiler ABI info — Detecting C compiler ABI info…
Where can I find a list of all Xen hypervisor command line options that can be passed to Xen hypervisor during boot? This page lists all options of Xen hypervisor: Xen Hypervisor Command Line Options
I recently changes the media aspects. The problem is that the existing thumbnails are not changed to the new aspects. How to make WordPress regenerate the thumbnails after I changing the media aspects? The “Regenerate Thumbnails” works like a charm for me: https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/ . It allows you to regenerate your thumbnails after changing the thumbnail…
I want to submit my paper to NAS 2015 but I am confused about its double-blind review 盲审又包括单盲审（Single-Blind Peer Review, SBPR）和双盲审（Double-Blind Peer Review, DBPR）。双盲审是审者与作者之间互相都不知道彼此身份的匿名评审。在双盲审的过程中，中间组织者的规范和保密工作很重要。单盲审一般是审者知道作者的身份，而作者不知道审者是谁。 计算机有不少会议实行双盲评审。 Reference: http://emuch.net/html/201104/3022021.html
I have made some eps figures for my paper but now I wanna modify them. How to edit them now? You may try inkscape on Linux: https://inkscape.org/en/ It can edit eps files.
My program reports that the port is already used. How to find which program or process is listening on a certain port in Linux? You can use netstat to do this. netstat can print network connections. For example, to find which program is listing on port 9999 netstat -pln | grep 9999 You will need…
Unfortunately, my C: drive is almost full. Most of the space are used by the user home under C:Users. How can I move the home directory to another drive while not affecting the user’s usage of Windows. On Linux/Unix, moving the directory to another drive/partition and then keeping a softlink is enough. But how to…
How to redirect WordPress search query to Google CSE? You can configure Google CSE to read the query variable (by default, it is q). Then, in your WordPress’s .htaccess file, add these 2 lines RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^s=(.*)$ RewriteRule ^ https://www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=xyz&q=%1 [R,L] Here, “https://www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=xyz” is your CSE’s public URL or the webpage that contains the Google…
VitualBox is installed on Fedora 21 by # yum install VirtualBox The following packages are installed kmod-VirtualBox-3.18.7-200.fc21.x86_64-4.3.20-4.fc21.4.x86_64 VirtualBox-4.3.20-3.fc21.x86_64 There is the kernel modules package installed. However, when running virtualbox (after reboot), it reports: [zma@laptop:~]$ virtualbox WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module available for the current kernel (3.18.7-200.fc21.x86_64) or…
I am using a shared network and scp to upload files. I do not want to use most of the bandwidth available. How to limit the network rate used by scp in Linux? You can use the -l option of scp to limit the rate of bandwidth. -l limit Limits the used bandwidth, specified in…