User xenoterracide

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What happens when you delete a hard link?

answered Oct 8, 2012 at 5:18

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Why is there a big delay after entering a wrong password?

answered Sep 16, 2010 at 5:24

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Difference between /bin and /usr/bin

answered Jan 15, 2011 at 10:53

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What are the pros and cons of Vim and Emacs?

answered Aug 22, 2010 at 7:05

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iptables: allow certain ips and block all other connection

answered Apr 23, 2011 at 9:41

35 votes

How to determine Linux kernel architecture?

answered May 2, 2011 at 18:04

35 votes

Why do Unix-heads say "minus"?

answered Sep 18, 2010 at 18:39

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make my zsh prompt show mode in vi mode

answered Aug 22, 2010 at 19:07

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How to enable killing Xorg with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace

answered Aug 13, 2010 at 0:04

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What is sport and dport?

answered Sep 11, 2011 at 6:29

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What are the pros/cons of Upstart and systemd?

answered Jan 20, 2011 at 15:56

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Easy incremental backups to an external hard drive

answered Aug 17, 2010 at 3:23

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Any options to replace GNU coreutils on Linux?

answered Jan 20, 2011 at 14:19

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Where should I put software I compile myself?

answered Aug 10, 2010 at 20:09

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Why do some commands have man pages and other commands use --help?

answered Sep 10, 2010 at 5:00

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What directories do I need to back up?

answered Aug 23, 2010 at 14:00

21 votes

How do I switch from an unknown shell to bash?

answered Aug 30, 2010 at 2:27

17 votes

What if 'kill -9' does not work?

answered Jan 11, 2011 at 9:57

15 votes

How to find which processes are taking all the memory?

answered Dec 19, 2010 at 10:17

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Rock-stable filesystem for large files (backups) for linux

answered Aug 31, 2010 at 17:02

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CLI interace to KDE's notifier

answered Sep 2, 2010 at 15:45

13 votes

How do I quit from vi?

answered Oct 20, 2010 at 23:25

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How to reset all iptables settings?

answered May 25, 2011 at 13:21

12 votes

What is the Linux equivalent to C:\Program Files?

answered Sep 11, 2011 at 9:09

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What's the progress regarding improving system performance/responsiveness during high disk I/O?

answered Jan 9, 2011 at 4:03

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Can I connect to or view abandoned ssh sessions?

answered Aug 17, 2010 at 20:34

12 votes

Do we have an undo in Linux?

answered Aug 22, 2010 at 8:17

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Where to search for more info if I don't have Internet?

answered Aug 21, 2010 at 9:42

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Running continuous jobs remotely

answered Aug 23, 2010 at 6:34

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How to give a normal user permission to change root password

answered Aug 23, 2010 at 8:40

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132 Answers

What happens when you delete a hard link?

Why is there a big delay after entering a wrong password?

Difference between /bin and /usr/bin

What are the pros and cons of Vim and Emacs?

iptables: allow certain ips and block all other connection

How to determine Linux kernel architecture?

Why do Unix-heads say "minus"?

make my zsh prompt show mode in vi mode

How to enable killing Xorg with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace

What is sport and dport?

What are the pros/cons of Upstart and systemd?

Easy incremental backups to an external hard drive

Any options to replace GNU coreutils on Linux?

Where should I put software I compile myself?

Why do some commands have man pages and other commands use --help?

What directories do I need to back up?

How do I switch from an unknown shell to bash?

What if 'kill -9' does not work?

How to find which processes are taking all the memory?

Rock-stable filesystem for large files (backups) for linux

CLI interace to KDE's notifier

How do I quit from vi?

How to reset all iptables settings?

What is the Linux equivalent to C:\Program Files?

What's the progress regarding improving system performance/responsiveness during high disk I/O?

Can I connect to or view abandoned ssh sessions?

Do we have an undo in Linux?

Where to search for more info if I don't have Internet?

Running continuous jobs remotely

How to give a normal user permission to change root password