<div dir="auto">True. And yet, in my personal experience, when there is a really urgent cry for help, it usually gets answered pretty quicker than I'd expect. You don't get that in microsoft land.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 Jul 2017 04:32, "Guang Chao" <<a href="mailto:guang.chao.1974@gmail.com">guang.chao.1974@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Joao Monteiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmonteiro257@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmonteiro257@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">That's true, Guang, and I'm quite happy that this xubuntu community is top notch nice.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I know that some are hard on beginners because most beginners - let's face it - just want everything done for them with little or no effort on their part... but if they were a bit more tolerant, they'd soon pinpoint those who can't be bothered to help themselves and just focus on helping the ones who genuinely try...</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There is downside also. Because no one is paid, sometimes you need to be patient before help comes.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But hey... we're all different being all equal.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Personally, I love this community and it is only a matter of time before I can get some stability in my life and have the time I need to give back some contribution within my rookie means... which I'm slowly working on already ;)</div><span class="m_5584564640232445331HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Joao</div></font></span></div><div class="m_5584564640232445331HOEnZb"><div class="m_5584564640232445331h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 Jul 2017 01:41, "Guang Chao" <<a href="mailto:guang.chao.1974@gmail.com" target="_blank">guang.chao.1974@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 12:13 AM, Joao Monteiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmonteiro257@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmonteiro257@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Er... no, Guang, I wasn't referring to that. That we can also do it with the cmd in DOS. By being light years ahead of microsoft, I was referring to the prompt and vast cooperation within the Linux community, to help, assist and share their knowledge.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Whereas the Linux world is open to all and welcoming and receptive to all equally, Microsoft is a typical corporate beast whose only goal is financial profit.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I guess it is because Linux has no support for the masses, so we need to help each other. Whereas if we buy a product, we have the rights to create ticket to vendor. </div><div><br></div><div>But for helping each other, it really depends case to case per community. Some are really very very nice to everyone. Others are hard on beginners.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sharing and the very concept of "free" are Microsoft's worst nightmares and enemies.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Whereas around 99% of Linux and Linux based software have the source code readily available out in the open for all to grab, study and use, Microsoft doesn't release its source code - at least not to my knowledge, so if I'm wrong on this one, I also hereby leave my apology to microsoft for this negative criticism.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In any case, even if they already make their source code freely available, they are years behind Linux, hence I stand by my original statement that Linux is light years ahead of microsoft.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Just to clarify, that's all :)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards to all</div><span class="m_5584564640232445331m_-5009640506301551220m_-3847067367074558895HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Joao</div></font></span></div><div class="m_5584564640232445331m_-5009640506301551220m_-3847067367074558895HOEnZb"><div class="m_5584564640232445331m_-5009640506301551220m_-3847067367074558895h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 Jul 2017 05:23, "Guang Chao" <<a href="mailto:guang.chao.1974@gmail.com" target="_blank">guang.chao.1974@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 5:27 PM, Joao Monteiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmonteiro257@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmonteiro257@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">And this is what puts Linux world light years ahead of microsoft world....<div dir="auto"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>the pipes and the simple command line utilities, plus some bash scripting can do wonders. And add cron to that, which is also very simple, will help you automate everything so easily too.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto">Folks, thank you so much for all your input on this, truly appreciated.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm busy to my eyeballs with loads of private life crap on my plate and I don't always have the chance to reply straight away, but have no doubts that I always read it all and am deeply grateful of all your replies... hec, I always get more than what I could bargain for with you guys, he he...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I will look into the GUI option as well of course, but right now, as a new/rookie linus user, I'm trying to carve my teeth into the cli as much as possible... and enjoying every bit of the learning curve.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So, thank you again for this... really really appreciated.</div><span><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kind regards to all</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Joao Monteiro</div></span></div><div class="m_5584564640232445331m_-5009640506301551220m_-3847067367074558895m_-9006882604146360298m_-3618281063111397160HOEnZb"><div class="m_5584564640232445331m_-5009640506301551220m_-3847067367074558895m_-9006882604146360298m_-3618281063111397160h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 Jul 2017 01:34, "Guang Chao" <<a href="mailto:guang.chao.1974@gmail.com" target="_blank">guang.chao.1974@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">For general backup to copy your files from one folder to another, or one folder to another machine, rsync is great. Just this one tool and a single command can do many wonders. Very efficient too as it transfer only files that have changes. For more complex stuff, there are many scripts available on github that compress and rotate stuff. For me, if all I need to backup are small files, I actually use git, because it is historical.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 10:05 PM, Joao Monteiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmonteiro257@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmonteiro257@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi folks,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Upfront "thank you" for your patience and understanding with a happy ex-windows-slave, linux-rookie-free-man...lol...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Question:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Windows versions aside, I was used to use the command prompt to select which files I wanted to backup both from my own as well as from any other user of the same machine and/or network.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In Linux, though, I haven't yet figured how to do such a selective backup as a "batch-like" manner...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I won't ask anybody to painfully type the instructions for me... I just ask that someone please post a link to "where" can I read and learn about how to do it, as I'm sure there's such a way in linux...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On a slight different note... I have been reading all the recent problems from various users... and I'm lost...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Coz I'm running xubuntu xfce on 4 different machines right now - 3 laptops, 1 custom tower with intel core i7, ATI Radeon, Asus motherboard - and I don't have ONE single glitch anywhere....</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That said... after every install on each one of them, I go to a page that I saved (google "10 things to do after installing xubuntu xfce"), I do everything therein suggested/recommended, and voila... no glitches... just blissfully beautiful working machines...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Oh... yes... screen tearing... not in the 10 things to do... But a search on screen tearing in xibuntu xfce brings up a script with full explanation and voila... screen tearing's gone.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kind regards to all</div><span class="m_5584564640232445331m_-5009640506301551220m_-3847067367074558895m_-9006882604146360298m_-3618281063111397160m_-5904582374620427800m_-2776816721932651772HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Joao Monteiro</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></font></span></div> <br>--<br> xubuntu-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm<wbr>an/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_5584564640232445331m_-5009640506301551220m_-3847067367074558895m_-9006882604146360298m_-3618281063111397160m_-5904582374620427800m_-2776816721932651772gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div class="m_5584564640232445331m_-5009640506301551220m_-3847067367074558895m_-9006882604146360298m_-3618281063111397160m_-5904582374620427800m_-2776816721932651772gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://javadevnotes.com/java-double-to-string-without-exponential-scientific-notation/" target="_blank">Guang</a></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div> <br>--<br> xubuntu-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm<wbr>an/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a><br> <br></blockquote></div></div> </div></div><br>--<br> xubuntu-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm<wbr>an/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_5584564640232445331m_-5009640506301551220m_-3847067367074558895m_-9006882604146360298m_-3618281063111397160gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div class="m_5584564640232445331m_-5009640506301551220m_-3847067367074558895m_-9006882604146360298m_-3618281063111397160gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://javadevnotes.com/java-float-to-int/" target="_blank">Guang</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div></div> <br>--<br> xubuntu-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm<wbr>an/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a><br> <br></blockquote></div></div> </div></div><br>--<br> xubuntu-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm<wbr>an/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_5584564640232445331m_-5009640506301551220m_-3847067367074558895gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div class="m_5584564640232445331m_-5009640506301551220m_-3847067367074558895gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://javadevnotes.com/java-print-array-examples/" target="_blank">Guang</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div></div> <br>--<br> xubuntu-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm<wbr>an/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a><br> <br></blockquote></div></div> </div></div><br>--<br> xubuntu-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm<wbr>an/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_5584564640232445331gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div class="m_5584564640232445331gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://javadevnotes.com/check-if-java-array-contains-a-certain-value/" target="_blank">Guang</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div></div> <br>--<br> xubuntu-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a><br> <br></blockquote></div></div>