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I know when I run tail -n $someBigNumber ./someBigFile, it is not much memory intensive. (correct me!) Because it reads the file in backward direction from the EOF until it se...

I have two network interfaces, each connected to a different ISP. There's an app that should prefer the first ISP only. What's the easiest solution? For example, is there any...

The default SMS app of my phone is the worst one, and I wanna replace it. But I don't find any SMS app in f-droid. Should I worry about closed-source and non-free SMS apps?

In my project, there's a file which gets modified once and forever (like changing http://myProdAddress to 127.0.0.1 blah blah), and I don't want to see this file in the change...

Can I forward ports (including the SSH port) between two machines without SSH? I know I can forward SSH server port from machine A (which blocks all requests by firewall) to ...

VLC is a good sftp/smb video browser (and player, obviously!), for Android. But it starts/seeks videos with a big delay which I know can be avoided technically. Material Files...

I have a problem, and I don't even know what I should check. Bluetooth woks well, except for some headset devices. The problem is not bluetooth version incompatibility with t...

So, other Linux users mostly use terminal + vim + emacs for remote server administration? No GUI file managers, no double click to edit file in local notepad, no drag and drop...

I don't understand why some people get surprised when they find someone using eclipse, rather than Intellij Idea. How's that surprising? (if it is surprising for you, at all)

Have anybody used a Linux desktop always with a sudoer user? A GUI session with root user for example. Without the need to reentering the root password everytime you need a sh...

Why do we need to read documentations when the speed of learning things by search, stackoverflow, etc. is much higher? Isn't it wasting time to read books? Also add the fact ...

Looks like long messages are forbidden in the chat group, yeah?

Is there any solution/android app to see all the current IP addresses of the phone? I know Settings > about shows the IP, but it doesn't show the IP when hotspot is enabled.

For plural/singular nouns, I follow every German grammar rule and correctly use their corresponding pronouns, article forms, verb forms, adjective forms, etc., while I ignore ...

The only thing that I know I should've checked, is the versions. Are there anything else left to check?

As far as I have understood, in Maven, there are some predefined project build and packaging templates. A user can modify them to reach the required template. I wanna know whe...

Thunderbird doesn't let the user set values more than 999000 (about 20 minutes) for alerts.totalOpenTime I know Scriptable Notifications plugin helps me creating my own notifi...

Because vsftpd and other similar tools are integrated with OS users. They cannot have a separated user definition file. Can they?

But why is it specific? I think it is a common use case: Customer #1 reports a problem. The dev connect to the server #1. Modifies ServerSettings.xml And opens putty to restar...

In Eclipse, is there any shortcut for navigating to diffs (jumping to next/previous changed line) in the editor window? I didn't find any plugin for this purpose.