This year, I finally made the switch to Ubuntu Linux. *  One of my elves (who knows a thing or two about computers) helped me migrate from my old Windows Me computer to a newer machine with Ubuntu installed.  I don't know anything about databases or spreadsheets or anything like that. I used to use Notepad to keep track of who's been naughty or nice. My elf friend recommended gedit as a replacement for Notepad (elves like Gnome for some reason...) and I was able to open and edit the files (naughty.txt and nice.txt) no problem.  As I was checking my email this morning, I encountered the following message:    Naturally, I copied-and-pasted the command into a terminal and ran it. It asked for my password, which I carefully entered. After a few minutes, everything stopped working. My elf friend came over and muttered something I couldn't understand and quit his job on-the-spot.  So now Santa is stuck. Can you please help me recover the lists? Time is starting to run out since I need the files back by December 24.  Anything would be appreciated. In exchange for assistance, I am willing to accept removal requests for the naughty.txt list.  * If I'm going to represent charity to the world, I ought to reflect that in my choice of operating system, no?
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I normally dual-boot with 12.04 and Win XP pro sp3 on a Thinkpad R60.  I needed to reinstall windows because of problems piling up, so I ran the computer's built-in hard-disk recovery software.  I told it not to mess with the other partitions, but somehow it deleted the Linux partition.  That's what I was using to backup all of my windows files, so now everything I have is gone.  I just ran the USB setup with linux, and the partition is deleted - it just shows it as empty space.    Is there ANY way to get all of my files back?
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I don't know much of Ubuntu, but is Ubuntu able to decode these sort of things? Or do I need to install some program? If I don't, how do I use Ubuntu to read the file?
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I'm new to Linux. I got the "Unix And Linux System Administration Handbook" It speaks of several verisons of linux and unix, and the commands for viewing linux man pages and not specific to ubuntu.   How do I view the manpages?
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I know this is something I shouldn't do, but it happened(Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS) as a root user I deleted /usr/lib folder. Any ideas how to restore it?
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My computer got encrypted by the Petya ransomware. After a long search I could not find a solution other than using file recovery software.  This helps a bit, but I am wondering if there is a way to completely restore my disk. I am not going to pay.
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is a todo list, and apparently they now have Linux support. How do I install it?
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No, this is not a , nor is it a solicitation on  to backup or  and only a little bit about Where to backup and When to do it.  This is basically a strategy question: what, where and when all together. "How" is not really relevant: there are tons of back-up programs out there and they all do the same basic thing: make copies of data.  But the real question is: are these back-up programs making copies of the data important to you?  How should you install&amp;run Ubuntu while safeguarding your data?  There is no "one size fits all" when it comes to computers, Ubuntu versions or a backup strategy, therefore I've split this up into 5 basic user types with each their own answer:       (or you're running in UEFI mode!)   And as the above does not fit everyone, one for the impatient:   !    So click one of the above links and go to your user type!  P.S. If you're running a server farm and you've read this question so far, I'm sorry: this is about a single PC, not a network, nor a server farm.
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I updated notepad++ and it started writing to the screen.  I quickly closed it not knowing what it was, but now I'm curious do I have a 'hacked' copy of notepad++?
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I'm working on a Ubuntu system, and my client has completely forgotten his administrative password. He doesn't even remember entering one; however it is there.  I've tried the suggestions on the website, and I have been unsuccessful in deleting the password so that I can download applets required for running some files. Is there a solution?
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Debian users have a kind of "wayback machine":  , which is really great.  There are regressions sometimes, and if I don't have local deb package with old version, I'm getting sad sometimes. Having a wayback machine like this is very helpful.  I can't find analogue of it for Ubuntu. Have I missed it?
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fg, bg and jobs are used for job management. And for some reason (maybe it's just me), I'm not able to find where their binaries are nor their manpages (whereis prints no information). which gives no output. The commands themselves work just fine, though.  I ran commands like find /bin bg, but with no hits. I also ran find / bg to cast a wide net.
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I have found a guide for that but doesn't sure if it will work or it is safe to use. The guide:  I am asking if is these introductions safe and will work? If not, is there any other solutions for that? I am using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Thank you.
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How can I find all files I can not write to?  Would be good if it takes standard permissions and acls into account.  Is there an "easy" way or do I have to parse the permissions myself?
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Unfortunately, our hosting provider experienced 100% data loss, so I've lost all content for two hosted blog websites:       (Yes, yes, I absolutely should have done complete offsite backups. Unfortunately, all my backups were on the server itself. So save the lecture; you're 100% absolutely right, but that doesn't help me at the moment.  Let's stay focused on the question here!)  I am beginning the slow, painful process of recovering the website from web crawler caches.  There are a few automated tools for recovering a website from internet web spider (Yahoo, Bing, Google, etc.) caches, like , but I had some bad results using this:   My IP address was quickly banned from Google for using it I get lots of 500 and 503 errors and "waiting 5 minutes…" Ultimately, I can recover the text content faster by hand   I've had much better luck by using a list of all blog posts, clicking through to the Google cache and saving each individual file as HTML. While there are a lot of blog posts, there aren't that many, and I figure I deserve some self-flagellation for not having a better backup strategy. Anyway, the important thing is that I've had good luck getting the blog post text this way, and I am definitely able to get the text of the web pages out of the Internet caches. Based on what I've done so far, I am confident I can recover all the lost blog post text and comments.  However, the images that go with each blog post are proving…more difficult.  Any general tips for recovering website pages from Internet caches, and in particular, places to recover archived images from website pages?  (And, again, please, no backup lectures. You're totally, completely, utterly right! But being right isn't solving my immediate problem… Unless you have a time machine…)
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I'm looking for a program that saves the recent clipboard items (plain text would be enough) for Ubuntu 14.04.  Thanks for any help !
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Pages has crashed, my file is now corrupted and I'm trying to get the text from this file.  if I Right click on the file > Show package content > open index.zip , I can see a bunch of .iwa files which seems to contains my original text, especially "Document.iwa".  If I "$ nano Document.iwa" (because "$ file" only returns "data") I can see some of my text, but the overall seems crypted.  Does anyone know how to decode/read this kind of .iwa file or recover corrupted files?
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I'm now going on vacation, and I won't be having Internet connection there. I was thinking it would be a good time to browse through the Stack Overflow data dump. However, it's all in XML and I'd have to write a client to make it readable. Is there any existing client?