How to list certain installed packages on Debian Linux.

The dpkg command can be used to list all installed packages. I wanted to list the language packs installed with Firefox. So the command below is perfect. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ dpkg –list firefox-locale-* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============================-====================-====================-================================================================== ii firefox-locale-de 75.0+build3-0ubuntu0 amd64 German language…

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4chan depicted in a TV show, and they get it so wrong.

This is how 4chan is depicted in a television show, each post has the same post numbers for god`s sake. They cannot even get this right. But that is how this works in television shows. She posts a comment and then gets a reply immediately, as if it is a…

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How to list the indexes in a MySQL database table.

How to list the indexes in a MySQL database table. Easily done using the show command. mysql> show index from customer; +———-+————+——————-+————–+——————–+———–+————-+———-+——–+——+————+———+—————+ | Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | Index_comment | +———-+————+——————-+————–+——————–+———–+————-+———-+——–+——+————+———+—————+…

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