… is user for unidirectional inter process communication on a single machine. In the following example a pipe gets created
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Audio on Linux
Creator: Yihui Xiong The red szenario – Using ALSA without any sound server – Just one source per sink is
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The shell provides the user a way to interact with the OS. It’s called shell, because it’s the outermost layer
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Windows You always have to create a totally new process via a CreateProcess(…) call. Linux You can either just copy
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Depending on the value of the following registry key Windows caches the last X numbers of logins. This makes it
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If you can’t access the UEFI during the bootup (e.g. via F1, F2, F8, F10, Del or Esc), it’s possible
Continue reading(Un)pack and (De)compress a directory (Linux)
Pack tar -cvf archive.tar /path/to/folder Compress gzip archive.tar bzip2 archive.tar Pack & Compress tar -czvf archive.tar.gz /path/to/folder tar -cjvf archive.tar.bz2
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