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Hello. I'm new to the whole Linux thing and I have something for a topic. In Windows you can produce characters with accents via a shortcut. For example: " followed by e brings forth ë. I miss this in Linux. Somebody told me that I should ask for help writing …

About 3 days ago. My laptop started behaving strangely (I'm on it, right now). I let it fall couple of times, but that was really some time ago about 3 months. Everything worked fine, no errors, crashes, "instant deaths". But recently, as said, 3 days ago. Laptop popped me out …

[Linux Mint] Linux Mint I'm following a book on Django and it has this -> https://hellowebapp.com/setup/ accompanying website. Take a look below at what I'm getting when I get to the "Start your Django project" section of the link. Here's a peak at my terminal input and feedback. (venv) user@mothership …

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 ( ID mediumint not null auto_increment primary key, nameID mediumint not null, addr1 varchar(30), addr2 varchar(30), city varchar(30), state varchar(10), …

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 but I haven't had much luck. All of the videos I find on the subject are about setting up Django …

Hi, i still learning about python. Now i study learning convert ***bandwidth*** (**Byte**) from `ifconfig eth0`to **Kbps** The problem is, my pc using **os windows 7** not **linux/ubuntu** I dont know how to using command `ifconfig eth0` using win7. Any other way to solved this problem?

I keep getting "List index out of range" when trying to execute this code, but for the life of me I cannot figure out why, If anyone has any experience coding linux gDesklets this would help. File: StockWatcher.display [code] ... parser.dataSet = stockInfo.html ... [/code] stockInfo.html is an object containing …

I get the following in my web browser when I try to connect to my mariaDB database. `Error!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user ''@'localhost' (using password: NO)` It also doesn't matter if I use mariaDB root or a regular users credentials, I get the same thing. The error above …

Linux Mint I logged into phpmyadmin and set the password option to 'no password' and now I can't log in. If I enter the password I was using I get this error -> `#1045 Cannot log in to the MySQL server` and if I don't user a password at all …

Hello, I'm a python beginner & I'm learning it on my own. So, I've few (dumb) questions about it. - Where should I host a python project on linux? I'm sure there'd be multiple choices. So, Where would you host it & on what circumstances? - I understand that `virtualenv` …

import java.io.*; public class testprog { public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException, InterruptedException { String command="find BEL/ -type f | wc -l"; Process p=Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command); p.waitFor(); BufferedReader reader=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream())); String line=reader.readLine(); while(line!=null) { System.out.println(line); line=reader.readLine(); } System.out.println("Done"); } } It's return null value. plz help me

I just installed phpmyadmin with `sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin` but now I can't figure out how to get it started. The installation did place a phpmyadmin directory in /etc/ but I don't have anything in /var/www/html/ . I installed this several years ago and it placed a start icon in …

Hi. Has anyone maybe found this miraculous software. That I could install on Windows/Linux machine (server) and client on my own computer let it be Windows/Linux. And have really great response time and quality? The server would be at 100Mbps, my connection would be at around 50Mbps. If my machine …

[Linux] When using gcc and or g++ is there a way I can have two output files, one with and one without debugging symbols in one gcc/++ command? I don't want to have to write `g++ --Wall program.cpp -o program`, then have to immediately run `g++ --Wall -g program.cpp -o …

Any good beginner books on python? I want to learn python easy and fast.I have coded some basic programs in c,c++,Java. Wanna learn python for scripting in linux.

Hello everyone. I am new to c++ and I just wrote a program. I am on linux so just saying. This is the code. What keeps happening is all the commands just keep coming. here is an example. Welcome to the Calculator. Please enter your operation. addition Please enter your …

as the title states, on on linux (Wine32) it works perfectly: http://lh3.ggpht.com/-heB_VObWcwE/VUgfS4bkLkI/AAAAAAAAJAA/tHZzjq2RElw/s642/SIDE_firstPort.png but on windows (synced code) I get this: Python 2.7.9 (default, Dec 10 2014, 12:24:55) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >>> ================================ RESTART ================================ >>> C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My …

Hi I am trying to provide access to a folder of photos. The website is Unix based so I can change permissions. I am using WISE-FTP 8 as my FTP program. I created a directory on the server and intend to upload about 40 photos to it. I uploaded one …

I've just started learning C++ on Linux. I have written a very small program which compiles but I get run time errors everytime I run it. The code is shown below: #include<iostream> int DoubleOf(int n); int main() { std::cout << "Double of 5 is " << DoubleOf(5); return 0; } …

I have to write program in c linux for operating systems class - communicator using fifo which has to work like that: ./Speak create name (to create user) ./Speak send from to (to send msg from user to user) ./Speak history name (to read all msgs sent to user Every …

So... this happened at a LAN party. A friend was pestering me for Linux Mint. For some reason YUMI wouldn't recognize my flash drive, so I did it the manual way. sudo dd if=./linuxmint-17.1-cinnamon-64bit.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M However, it should have been: sudo dd if=./linuxmint-17.1-cinnamon-64bit.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=1M It's an ADD/mental auto-pilot …

Hello. I'm using Linux OS, Python 2 and the last version of Kivy framework. Here i have 2 files that i have typed them exactly as what i watched on a kivy tutorial video. Fist file is "main.py": from kivy.app import App from kivy.uix.scatter import Scatter from kivy.uix.label import Label …

Hi. How can i open a mp3 file and play it in python? There is a mp3 file on my Linux desktop and i want to open it from a python file and play it. What should i do?

Hi, I have ubuntu installed on my pc with openjdk 8 but as i want to lern java ho can i create programs by openjdk or which is the place to write the coding. Plz suggest me with easy words Thanks,uxama

Hi, I want to learn java as young but i use Arch linux since i was kid so how can i get the emulator or what required softwares.I have java 7 installed. Reply as soon as possible to noob guy. Thanks,uxama

Hi everybody. I'm using python to create sql database. I created a test.db file and then made a table on it with the name "fims" and inserted some data on it.... title text, year text and director text. And then set values for them. Now when i type "sqlite3 test.db" …

Hi everybody. How can i install ttk module on linux? When i try to import and use it on my Tkinter window, the error says sth like there is no module named ttk. So it means i should install it right?! I'm using python 2. I want to use ttk …

On my Raspberry Pi computer I did a search for PIL and matplotlib with apt-cache search python but could not find anything close in the list. Is PIL/Pillow and matplotlib available for Linux and what is it called? The Raspberry Pi has Python27 and Python32 installed.

Hey guys, I have this script that does count one year of files, 2014, but when it comes to this year, everything messes up. How could I count properly for each year in the same script ? In the attached screenshot it's obvious that I would only need 2014 - …

How can I find the width of a command line window from a GNU C++-program ? I'll use this information to display a progress bar when copying files, so I need to know the width to be able to display the progress bar correctly.