How can I recover deleted photos from samsung? You may try PhotoRec. A step by step tutorial can be found here. There are similar software. You can google them. Have you retrieved your lost photos from Galaxy? If not, you can follow the steps below to get some back. Hope it helps you somewhat. Stop…
When should the authors anonymize themselves in a paper submitted to a conference for review? Several general concepts: Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work (peers). — Wikipedia Single-blind describes experiments where information that could introduce bias or otherwise skew the…
When we design a system, we may want our systems to be consistency, scalability and so on. Currently, there are some famous consistency algorithms. How to understand them easily. 1, Paxos and its extensions 2, Replicated State Machine mechanisms 3, Quorum Welcome to adding other famous consistency algorithms and its understanding ;-) Reading text books…
Do you know how to display chinese character in lxterminal? I tried to install lxterminal on my workstation and it seems display Chinese characters well: FYI, my Linux system is Fedora 21. The lxterminal version: $ rpm -q lxterminal lxterminal-0.1.11-10.fc21.x86_64 Not sure what’s the reason why it does not work for you. You may check…
How to measure the execution time of a function, say f: ‘a -> ‘b in OCaml? This small OCaml function is handy: let time f = let t = Unix.gettimeofday () in let res = f () in Printf.printf “Execution time: %f secondsn” (Unix.gettimeofday () -. t); res ;; The gettimeofday returns a float representing…
How to filter RSS items and leave only certain items that I want? Rules may be like: satisfies all or any rules { contains keyword; does not contain keyword } or etc. Two sServices that I find working well for me: Yahoo Piples: https://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/</s> Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup…
How to log connections hitting certain rules in iptables on Linux? Like the one that are dropped because of too frequently creating SSH connections. You can create a new chain named LOGNDROP that log the connections and drop them, then pass the connection to be redirected to the LOGNDROP chain. $tables -N LOGNDROP # Connections…
What is a good basic iptables config? Basic rules needed: Allow incoming TCP to 22 for SSH but blocks all others. Allow outgoing TCP/UDP connections. You may consider using the following rules as a start: for tables in iptables ip6tables ; do # Flush existing rules $tables -F # Default policy $tables -P INPUT DROP…
How to list all running system service on Linux Mint 17.1? You can use initctl to list all services: initctl list
How to configure iptables and make the configuration persistent across system restarting on Linux Mint 17.1? You can use the ‘iptables-persistent’ tool. To install iptables-persistency pachage: sudo aptitude install iptables-persistent The you can manipulate the iptables by the ‘iptables’ command. To save the current iptables rules: sudo /etc/init.d/iptables-persistent store It will store the rules for…
How to use iptables to limit rates new SSH incoming connections from each IP on Linux? For example, at most 6 SSH connection attempts every 60 seconds. You may use these rules (skip the first one, if you have set the basic rules): for tables in iptables ip6tables ; do # Allow established inbound connections…
ELPA manages packages for Emacs nicely. But, how to upgrade packages installed by ELPA in Emacs? Within Emacs, list all packages by M-x list-packages and it will automatically refresh the archive contents. Then, press U to mark all upgradable packages to be upgraded. Last, press x to perform the new updates. Emacs will then download…
Alt key seems not work in xterm. Alt is important for Emacs. How to make Alt key work in xterm? Put this in your ~/.Xresources file: XTerm*eightBitInput: false XTerm*eightBitOutput: true Remember to make it take effect after you change the ~/.Xresource without restarting the X server by xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
How to find the available packages’ versions with aptitude on Linux? With aptitude, you can use this command to show the available versions of a package: aptitude versions <package name> In the console GUI, aptitude also show the versions. You may also simulate installation of a package and see which version will be installed: aptitude…
How to install musl libc on Linux Mint 17/Ubuntu 14.04? You can install musl libc on Linux Mint 17 by sudo aptitude install musl musl-dev musl-tools One note: If you want to install a newer version of musl libc than the one from Ubuntu repo, you can use this ppa: https://launchpad.net/~bortis/ archive/ubuntu/musl by sudo add-apt-repository…
How to find the number of files in each sub-directories of a directory on Linux? For example, . ├── a19 ├── a8 ├── d2 ├── ecfddd └── t1 The number of sub-directories can be quite large. How to find the number of files in each sub-directories here? You can use this piece of script to…
Currently, I have created my branch dev-harry but I cannot pull it successfully as follows. harryxiyou@common_vm ~/forest/kvplus/kvplus $ git branch * dev-harry master rc harryxiyou@common_vm ~/forest/kvplus/kvplus $ git pull You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you want to merge with, and ‘branch.dev-harry.merge’ in your configuration file does not tell me, either….
How to exclude directories with certain names like “cache” from rsync on Linux during backup? The “cache” directory may in many different paths, such as file1/cache/ or file2/cache/, and adding all “cache” directories to rsync command is not a doable way. You can use rsync with –exclude=cache/ like rsync -avxP –exclude=cache/ /path/to/src/directory/ /path/to/dst/dir/
How to play 3D movies in MPlayer on normal screen (2D)? You can play 3D movies on 2D screen by mplayer -vo gl_stereo=3 your.movie.file For the gl:stereo=3 option, check MPlayer man page: stereo=value Select a method for stereo display. You may have to use -aspect to fix the aspect value. Add 32 to swap left…
Cant read or write to files on usb stick or move or copy them. Could you provide the dmesg output? It will help to understand your question. If it is formated on Windows, you may need to install the ntfs-3g package to write to the usb disk.