Change the name of your Ubuntu machine
In order to rename your Ubuntu box, replace all occurences of the the old name in the following two files:
/etc/hostname/etc/hosts
After a reboot your hostname is changed. If you don't want to reboot your Ubuntu box you have to execute hostname your.hostname.
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Use Socket.gethostname. So for a machine whose hostname is "happycat", it will look like this:
>> Socket.gethostname
=> "happycat"
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requi...
Show the name and version of your Linux distribution
To list the name and version of your Linux distribution, type the following:
cat /etc/*-release
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As described by the linked Stackoverflow answer, run these commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa -y
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
git --version
This will get you Git 2.6.4 (as of Dec 2015).
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How to change the locale of a PostgreSQL cluster
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