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Background: Linux Mint Debian running in Mate Environment Prior to verify the model of you wireless Network Controller, it is important to ensure that Network Manager(which is default in Gnome and Mate) is running. Issue command: sudo lshw -C network Please note that *-network UNCLAIMED is shown prior to installing the required package listed below. Ensure that your /etc/network/interfaces file is clean as mine: source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d auto lo iface lo inet loopback The most you need to add are the three lines above. From the above the model is RT3090 Wireless 802.11n  PCIe. Required package:  ' firmware-ralink ' and ' wireless-tools ' package Install the ' firmware-ralink ' driver (perhaps ' wireless-tools ' too if not already installed) to provide support for RT3090 driver. Issue command: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firmware-ralink Important: ensure no Ralink RT28xx driver i

Preliminary As the maintainer for ffDiaporama is not maintaining the project, i decided to try out the development version which tends to be ahead of the stable version.  Select the Linux button from ffDiaporama Landing site ( http://ffdiaporama.tuxfamily.org/?page_id=3635 ) . We shall see this page. There is a script for Fedora, but i can't seem to get it to work. Hence, i downloaded the zip files found under the section "Other cases". Download the three files, Resource package – Source files package , Application package – Source files package, Texturemate extension – Source files package. Installing Qmake and other prequisites   Go for Qt5 Installation prerequisites:       sudo dnf groupinstall development-tools      sudo dnf install gcc-c++      sudo dnf install qt5-qtbase-devel qt5-qttools-devel qt5-qtsvg-devel qt5-qtbase qt5-qttools qt5-qtsvg qt5-qtimageformats qt5-qtmultimedia-devel qt5-qtmultimedia qt5-qtdeclarative-devel      sudo dnf i

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Safe Removal of Hdd/Thumbdrive Safely remove Hdd/Thumbdrive on Linux Mint Debian Edition Sometimes the eject option is not available to safely remove a external storage device, the way to do it manually is to issue the following command: udisks --detach /dev/sd* Installing Oracle VirtualBox Resolving gpg-keyserver error updating VirtualBox Advice: follow the instruction on https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads to update the repository list in your /etc/apt/sources.list NB: An error likely to surface when updating Oracle VirtualBox on Debian-based distribution (including Ubuntu):  "Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file. File: does not exist." 1) Simply delete the previous version folder in /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/ for e.g. (/var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.X.XX) 2) issue the command "sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup" and the error is gone. < Follow my blog with Bloglovin

This short tip is to check your harddisk to check if it is active or in standby mode using smartctl  command:  sudo smartctl -i -n standby /dev/sdx Note: x = a letter representing the device you are checking Update: In addition, the following command helps using hdparm which should works if your drive is in 'sleep' state without waking the drive: sudo hdparm -C /dev/sdx Happy holidays! Follow my blog with Bloglovin

I support Wiring for its modern approach to teaching schoolchildren the basics of computing. It is a shame that Arduino has appropriated the ideas of Wiring. The purpose of writing this post is to lend support to Hernando Barragán the original creator of concepts behind Arduino. Full Story can be read here :  http://arduinohistory.github.io/#what-is-programma2003-and-how-is-it-related-to-you-or-to-wiring Follow my blog with Bloglovin

This article is about installing TWRP on Kindle Tate and still use your stock ROM using Android SDK and with TWRP 2.8.7. Using the following commands after going to /path/to/Android/Sdk folder: ./platform-tools/adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0boot0 of=/sdcard/boot0block.img" ./platform-tools/adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/boot of=/sdcard/stock-boot.img"  ./platform-tools/adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/recovery of=/sdcard/stock-recovery.img" ./platform-tools/adb shell su -c "dd if=/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/system of=/sdcard/stock-system.img" We can verify the system integrity of my Kindle Fire 7 HD (in this article aka Kindle Tate). Next, we can proceed to backup the partitions with the following commands: ./platform-tools/adb pull /sdcard/boot0block.img ./platform-tools/adb pull /sdcard/s

One of the stable FOSS program for defragging Linux/GNU driven hard drive and formatted with the common FS like ext2/3/4 is defragfs . Download and extract the zip file and copy the "defragfs" perl script file to /usr/local/bin. The command to use: cd /usr/local/bin sudo perl ./defragfs /path/you/want/defrag An example is the following defragmentation of a activated drive on my PC. Follow my blog with Bloglovin