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How to determine the type of file from its contents

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There have been many questions here at Experts Exchange along the lines of, "How can I tell the type of file from its contents?", as well as, "What kind of file has the XXX extension?" Sometimes the situation is that a file does not even have an extension. This article addresses those issues.
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My Recent Experiences with Linux!  As a staunch Windows OS…

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My Recent Experiences with Linux!

As a staunch Windows OS supporter, it's been quite a few…
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Mariadb blew up... why? What is causing this?

byMike
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We've been chasing a mariadb problem for months and eliminated all we could to the point of staring

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Raid 1 and Raid 6

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Dear Experts:

We are planning  setup small infra for CFD  Computational Fluid Dynamics project where

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Does a US Ubuntu archive exist?

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archive.ubuntu.com resolves to:

91.189.91.81

185.125.190.39

91.189.91.82

91.189.91.83

185.125.190.36

and

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I've been using phantomjs to convert HTML pages to PDF.  On …

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I've been using phantomjs to convert HTML pages to PDF.  On my Mac, everything was OK.  But, on a …
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Find the location and size of my MariaDB database on a Centos server

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My EC2 server is using a Centos-like distribution. Is there a single BASH command that I can type to

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ubuntu same session has same output vm.

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Hi expert,

In vmware vsphere i have ubuntu desktop (jammy 22.04)

I create an 3 users how to make all

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linux  webserver stops working after Nydus Installed

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Dear Experts:

We have hosted applications running on lamp stack on godaddy VPS , all of a sudden

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I can't say I am surprised but I am REALLY disappointed :( …

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I can't say I am surprised but I am REALLY disappointed :( Microsoft is apparently our last hope for…
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This is a good approach to teaching. Start with simple …

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This is a good approach to teaching. Start with simple questions about how to reach an end goal. …
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Share same vlan subnet with VM server and a physical server

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Hello, let me start by saying that I am not a network engineer. I need some help with the below.

I

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If you ever want to play bash on hard mode, install suicide …

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If you ever want to play bash on hard mode, install suicide linux. It sudo rm -rf / 's your machine …
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Got a Reddit account? Change your password and take a read …

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Got a Reddit account? Change your password and take a read of this..

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move email server to outlook 365

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I have an old Linux email server and recently I can no longer send email to gmail. I would like to

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Cannot see connected hdd in Esxi

byeemoon
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Hi ESXi installed in dell R620. For expanding storage, an additional HDD is attaced to the host, but

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