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    Marked Solved Status for encrypting an external drive

    Linux Mint (Ubuntu). I'm looking for a way to encrypt some of my external HDDs. I was looking this option over -> https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/encrypt-your-data-with-encfs-on-ubuntu/ but I'm not sure how well this …
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    Thanks, I'm also trying gnome-disks but it's taking forever to format my extern so I'm sure it's even working. I'll check that out. Thanks again.
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    Linux Mint (Ubuntu). I'm looking for a way to encrypt some of my external HDDs. I was looking this option over -> https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/encrypt-your-data-with-encfs-on-ubuntu/ but I'm not sure how well this …
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    Linux Mint (Ubuntu). I'm looking for a way to encrypt some of my external HDDs. I was looking this option over -> https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/encrypt-your-data-with-encfs-on-ubuntu/ but I'm not sure how well this …
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    I just purchased an 240 GB SSD for my older Toshiba Satellite. I would rather not go through trying to save the files from the HDD and install the Linux …
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    Thanks.
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    I just purchased an 240 GB SSD for my older Toshiba Satellite. I would rather not go through trying to save the files from the HDD and install the Linux …
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    I just purchased an 240 GB SSD for my older Toshiba Satellite. I would rather not go through trying to save the files from the HDD and install the Linux …
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    Marked Solved Status for Hardware for my Toshiba Linux Mint Laptop

    I have an older Toshiba Satellite laptop with Linux Mint OS installed. It pretty old and it's starting to show as it's getting slower. It's got a bigger screen and …
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    Thanks for your help.
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    I havent putchased a lot of hardware for a laptop and I just want to make sure that I get RAM that is compatible with this computer. I figured if …
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    Noted. What about the RAM, if I wanted to go ahead and put some new ram in it? What do I need to look for?
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    Created Hardware for my Toshiba Linux Mint Laptop

    I have an older Toshiba Satellite laptop with Linux Mint OS installed. It pretty old and it's starting to show as it's getting slower. It's got a bigger screen and …
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    I have an older Toshiba Satellite laptop with Linux Mint OS installed. It pretty old and it's starting to show as it's getting slower. It's got a bigger screen and …
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    You take it I'm not going to read from the past. Did you notice that I did post a url where I was trying to get help via web search …
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    Created Android tablet, using sd card

    My daughter has a Samsun Android tablet that has ran out of space so I purchased an sd card. The card is mounting and I reformatted it from the Android …
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    My daughter has a Samsun Android tablet that has ran out of space so I purchased an sd card. The card is mounting and I reformatted it from the Android …
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    Yes, many band names, artits, album names and song names have spaces in them.
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    The sd card is formatted to FAT32 and it has an exact copy of my music foler. So it looks like this. artist1/album1/musicFile1.flac artist1/album1/musicFile.2flat artist1/album2/musicFile1.flac artist2/album1/musicFile1.flac etc...
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    I don't think it's read only. My music library is syncing from my computer to the sd card fine except that I always get these two errors.
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    Created rsync error

    After running rsync with the `-a --delete source dest` arguments on my music library to my sd card I am getting the following errors. default_perms_for_dir: sys_acl_get_file(Tears For Fears/Donnie Darko, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT): …
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    After running rsync with the `-a --delete source dest` arguments on my music library to my sd card I am getting the following errors. default_perms_for_dir: sys_acl_get_file(Tears For Fears/Donnie Darko, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT): …
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    Marked Solved Status for error sourcing file, MariaDB/MySQL

    File drop database if exists contacts create database contacts; use contacts; create table names ( ID mediumint not null auto_increment primary key, firstName varchar(20), lastName varchar(20) ); create table addresses …
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    Created error sourcing file, MariaDB/MySQL

    File drop database if exists contacts create database contacts; use contacts; create table names ( ID mediumint not null auto_increment primary key, firstName varchar(20), lastName varchar(20) ); create table addresses …
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    Began Watching error sourcing file, MariaDB/MySQL

    File drop database if exists contacts create database contacts; use contacts; create table names ( ID mediumint not null auto_increment primary key, firstName varchar(20), lastName varchar(20) ); create table addresses …
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    Replied To a Post in With Python

    Well, it's a bunch of independant instructors. Some do and some don't respond. I'm trying there too. Thanks.
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    Replied To a Post in With Python

    Im using a digitaloceans account because I'm following along with a coure on Udemy.com and that was part of the course. So I'm not punching localhost into my browser I'm …
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    Here's my script. #!/usr/bin/env python3 from flask import Flask app = Flask(__name__) @app.route('/') def homepage(): return "Hell World" if __name__ == "__main__": app.run() When I try and run it outside …
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    Marked Solved Status for With Python

    I've tinkered with php in the past but I'v also enjoyed playing around with python. I have been wanting to give python a try as a possible alternative to php …
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    Replied To a Post in With Python

    Thanks Gribouillis, I'll check that out. snippsat, I actually like the LAMP stack and I wanted to use Python instead of PHP in my LAMP stack. I was open to …
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    Replied To a Post in With Python

    Yea that's what I'm going to do. I like python and I wanted to give it a try at web programming but the setup and management is too difficult. I'll …
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    Replied To a Post in With Python

    I have always heard a LAMP stack refered to as Linux, Apache, MySQL (or MariaDB) and PHP. Since Python also starts with a p the term LAMP would still work …
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    Created With Python

    I've tinkered with php in the past but I'v also enjoyed playing around with python. I have been wanting to give python a try as a possible alternative to php …
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    I've tinkered with php in the past but I'v also enjoyed playing around with python. I have been wanting to give python a try as a possible alternative to php …
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    Created Python PySFTP

    python3 pythonscript.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "pythonscript.py", line 1, in <module> import pysftp as sftp File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pysftp/__init__.py", line 12, in <module> import paramiko File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/paramiko/__init__.py", line 30, in …
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    Began Watching Python PySFTP

    python3 pythonscript.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "pythonscript.py", line 1, in <module> import pysftp as sftp File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pysftp/__init__.py", line 12, in <module> import paramiko File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/paramiko/__init__.py", line 30, in …
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    Replied To a Post in Using backuppc

    Thanks. backuppc was actually recommended to me by another very experienced Linux administrator after I told him I was planning on using rsync. It's at his house that I'll be …
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    Created Using backuppc

    I'm trying to get my Mint desktop computer's home directory and my Debian media server's movies/shows directoiries backed up. When this is all said and done I'll be backing everything …
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    I'm trying to get my Mint desktop computer's home directory and my Debian media server's movies/shows directoiries backed up. When this is all said and done I'll be backing everything …
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    I'm going to look into this cubieboard thing, that sounds ineteresting. I've got the PI 2 and a 5 TB external HD with it's own power source. What I want …
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    I haven't used it yet but as of right now I'm still planning on using backuppc. I have many TBs to backup most of that up locally before deploying the …
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    I have been trying to learn to program for years. I've played around with C, C++, Python, & PHP but I would not dare call myself a programmer. I want …
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    Created hard drive options for a raspberry pi 2 backup server

    I've been wanting to build a backup server for my Mint desktop as well as for my Debian media server for a while now. To save money I purchased a …
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    Began Watching hard drive options for a raspberry pi 2 backup server

    I've been wanting to build a backup server for my Mint desktop as well as for my Debian media server for a while now. To save money I purchased a …
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    Marked Solved Status for laptop will not start

    My brothers laptop recently died, I believe due to a failed hard drive because when you turned it on you couldn't get out of the BIOS. I unscrewed the laptop's …
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    Update, I reformatted the USB stick and instead of buring the Mint image on it I burned the Ubuntu image on it and now it's working fine. Go figure. Thanks.
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    I'm googling UEFI right now. If it was a UEFI issue would that be a problem with the USB stick or the laptop? I did notice that when I tried …
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    update It was an issue with power button/motherboard ribbon cable. I have now fixed that issue but I'm still having problems. The laptop has a new 250 GB Samsung SSD …
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    I'll give that a try rproffitt. No rubberman, it's like that power button isn't even connected to anything, absolutly nothing happens when you press the button.
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    Created laptop will not start

    My brothers laptop recently died, I believe due to a failed hard drive because when you turned it on you couldn't get out of the BIOS. I unscrewed the laptop's …

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