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I was having a 120 second delay in shutdown of my Linux Mint 17 Mate.…

http://askubuntu.com/questions/34074/how-do-i-change-my-username mkdir ~/home/<newname> -p <password> sudo adduser -U <newname>:<newnamegroup> cp ~/home/<usertocopy ~/home/<newname> sudo — usermod …

First, a bit off track, but here’s a gui to help create launchers for script …

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html also see sed and awk see cut the following will get the last two …

Nice list of six video editors http://filmora.wondershare.com/video-editor/free-linux-video-editor.html

Most useful sticky note for windows, linux and mac http://globonote.info/ List of Features Platform Independent…

I want a linux symlink to resolver to the parent directory rather than the directory …

For now, a few links http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/35832/how-do-i-get-the-md5-sum-of-a-directorys-contents-as-one-sum http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/ http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/318530/generate-md5-checksum-for-all-files-in-a-directory  

Linux Mint 17 Mate To get rid of the slow shut down I changed open…

This works in Wine. $40 for a pro version that shows video as well http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/…