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There are loads of IRC clients in the repositories and I don't wan......Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:29:31 -0400https://pop.com.sg/install-ubuntu-or-kubuntu-on-a-external-usb-drive.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/install-ubuntu-or-kubuntu-on-a-external-usb-drive.htmlI have a few external hard drives (SSDs and Platters (SATA), is this possible that I can install Kubuntu 10.10 x64 or Ubuntu 10.10 x64 onto one of these external hard drives? My System supports boo......Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:25:44 -0400https://pop.com.sg/14-04-inside-docker-term-environment-variable-not-set.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/14-04-inside-docker-term-environment-variable-not-set.htmlI am running an ubuntu 14.04 inside a docker container. 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So I wonder if there's a possibility to automatically log in at home and password ...Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:19:34 -0400https://pop.com.sg/how-do-i-resize-an-ext4-partition-beyond-the-16tb-limit.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/how-do-i-resize-an-ext4-partition-beyond-the-16tb-limit.htmlWhen attempting to resize and old ext4 Partition that was created without the 64bit flag, resize2fs 1.42 will fail if the new size is or exceeds 16TiB. $ resize2fs -p /dev/mapper/target-device res......Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:18:09 -0400https://pop.com.sg/booting-paravirtualized-kernel-on-bare-hardware.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/booting-paravirtualized-kernel-on-bare-hardware.htmlI been reading dmesg and i found the line " Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware " but I am not using Ubuntu in visualization I am using it on my laptop DELL N5110 the only OS I have on ......Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:16:16 -0400https://pop.com.sg/kdenlive-snap-version-doesn-039-t-render-in-ubuntu-18-04.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/kdenlive-snap-version-doesn-039-t-render-in-ubuntu-18-04.htmlWhen I'm trying to render a project, it just stuck on 'Waiting' and render never starts. Console log contains next error: starting kdenlive_render process using: "/snap/kdenlive/26/usr/bin/...Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:16:07 -0400https://pop.com.sg/i-can-039-t-find-a-select-drive-option.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/i-can-039-t-find-a-select-drive-option.htmlI'm running into some problems with installing ubuntu (ubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso). The problem. I found a few tutorials that told me that I can select a drive to install ubuntu on, but I can't......Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:12:44 -0400https://pop.com.sg/open-a-specific-workspace-on-i3-when-launching-a-specific-app.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/open-a-specific-workspace-on-i3-when-launching-a-specific-app.htmlThis week, I finally deciced to write in my i3 config file. 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Background W......Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:01:57 -0400https://pop.com.sg/installed-mysql-but-still-says-command-not-found.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/installed-mysql-but-still-says-command-not-found.htmlI downloaded MySQL's rpm bundle from the site, converted it to a .deb file using alien and installed it by saying sudo dpkg -i mysql-server_5.6.14-2_amd64.deb. However, when I say mysql in the comm......Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:49:35 -0400https://pop.com.sg/unable-to-select-nvidia-proprietry-driver-greyed-out.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/unable-to-select-nvidia-proprietry-driver-greyed-out.htmlI have just completed a fresh installation of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I am using a minimal install and enabled the use of proprietary drivers during installation. Upon boot and logging in my resolution w......Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:48:56 -0400https://pop.com.sg/how-to-concatenate-files-found-by-the-find-command-in-bash.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/how-to-concatenate-files-found-by-the-find-command-in-bash.htmlSearching for files using the bash find command, I would like to concatenate the resulting files into a new file. For example, if the find command yields: find . -name "configuration_dev.txt" ./tmp/...Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:41:08 -0400https://pop.com.sg/can-039-t-open-a-obj-file.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/can-039-t-open-a-obj-file.htmlI am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I downloaded a zip file online which contains codes for Abaqus. The UMAT code, named CMSG.obj . 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I got these errors: E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to acquire th......Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:49:56 -0400https://pop.com.sg/how-to-play-protected-youtube-videos-in-mpv.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/how-to-play-protected-youtube-videos-in-mpv.htmlMpv is not playing all video files from youtube anymore, even though youtube-dl has no problem downloading them. I've tried with streamlink+vlc and it says that the video is protected so it gave me......Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:46:52 -0400https://pop.com.sg/is-there-a-way-to-try-out-a-netplan-configuration-without-altering-the.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/is-there-a-way-to-try-out-a-netplan-configuration-without-altering-the.htmlI work on remote servers, and its a painfull process to go into Rescue Mode everytime I screw something up when it comes to network configuraitons. 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