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How do I send text messages with KDE Plasma on Mobian? I am sure I am missing it.
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I would like to know what process is meant to write Timestapms (and other parts of Log messages) in Syslog protocol. In other words, is it Syslog that sets timestamp of log message (exact time of ...
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Hopefully, this is a simple question regarding hardware I'm just now learning how to use: the TPM. My laptop has a TPM 2.0, and I need to become familiar with some basic functionality offered by the ...
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I have a mixed set of computers on my work environment here, comprsed of a few Fedora Workstations, CentOS servers, Windows 2016 servers and Windows 10 Workstations. Now when I need to update a ...
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I'm using pidgin Jabber client (pidgin-2.13.0-alt6 on ALT Sisyphus), and I'd like to set XMPP priority in pidgin. The reason: I'm also connecting to my Jabber account with another client from mobile ...
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PROBLEM: I have a program written in bash that does a lot of stuff like install new software on the system. One of the programs it installs has an extravagant message appear where you get some info ...
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I want that for a given number of system boots (say, 1 or 2 system boots), a message will appear. I will store the message somewhere, maybe in a variable: message='If you finished testing, make sure ...
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If I try to talk to a user on a machine on the local network, I get: ~ % talk toothrot@othermachine [Service connection established.] Error on write to talk daemon: Invalid argument I'm running Arch. ...
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I asked similar question in superuser, no satisfying answer. Re-post here with some update. I mount a remote host to my system during debug because the source code is on that host, but after I do the ...
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I want to send sSMS periodically to certain Mobile numbers (Indian mobile numbers.) Is there a way I can send an SMS with my own cellphone number or by creating an account on a site like way2sms?
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This one is similar to Sending messages to another user except that I want to accept messages over network. If there is a way to just unblock the port to receive messages, that would be fine. If ...
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I have jabber clients on my computer (pidgin) and on mobile phones (im+). For now each message is received by arbitrary one of them (or so it looks). For instance, if a person sends two messages one ...
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Is it possible to send text messages between two users of the same LAN, but the first running Windows with cmd and the second running Linux/Unix? I am not looking for an instant messaging service. I ...
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I have downloaded g2ipmsg from http://www.ipmsg.org/archive/g2ipmsg-0.9.6.tar.gz While installing this package, it is causing some error. checking for G2IPMSG... configure: error: Package ...
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Is there any command to send messages through the Linux shell to other people on the same network? I'm using write user and then write the message itself. But there's any command that doesn't show my ...
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I have been trying to migrate to Linux from Windows during the past one year. Until I completely deleted my windows and I have been using Linux mint 15 for the last 30 days. I am really satisfied. I ...
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Back in the stone ages, when men were men and women were women and Unix's competitor was VMS, Unix had a lovely talk (or ntalk, or ytalk) split screen IM command where you could talk and both parties ...
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I am currently using wall to show a message on a remote machine when an activity is started and finished. But this is intrusive, as it will write across an editor they might have open etc. What I ...
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