...version 2.x of Thunderbird and upgraded to 3.x (for example through an Ubuntu release upgrade) you might notice that Thunderbird will not show any of your old e...
...This works on linuxes who use the Perl version of the rename command (like Ubuntu): rename 's/\.foo$/\.bar/' * You can also use this to rename other parts of the...
Use this snippet by Achu from Ask Ubuntu: ping hostname.tld | while read pong; do echo "$(date): $pong"; done This gives you lines like: Wed Nov 4 10:32:31 CET...
...vim /etc/mysql/my.cnf In the [mysqld] section, add: log=/var/log/mysql.log Restart your MySQL daemon. On Ubuntu: sudo service mysql restart Note that your MySQL performance will suffer. But when you need...
This site contains 29761 parsed manpages from sections 1 and 8 found in Ubuntu's manpage repository. A lot of heuristics were used to extract the arguments of each...
Ubuntu lets you mount an SSH shell into Nautilus from Places -> Connect to server (select "SSH" as server type). In order to copy a file over SSH from a shell...
In Ubuntu your ALT key is locked when you're working in VirtualBox. There are two workarounds for this: Press the Windows key in addition to the ALT key
...across many more platforms. I just didn't want to use Dropbox... I use Ubuntu One to automatically sync confidential files between my machines. The encryption is done via encfs...
...ll sync is ~/sync. You can set it up like this: Sign up with Ubuntu One (found under SystemSettings on a ubuntu box) or any other cloud storage. We assume...
...with multiple pages that can be printed and turned into one big poster. In Ubuntu, you can install it with sudo apt-get install pdfposter Scaling to the desired size...
...found for the language "de" Solve it by installing the proper package, e.g. on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install aspell-de
I've encountered a Ubuntu 16.04 today, where localhost resolved to ::1 instead of 127.0.0.1. This will not usually make a difference, but could be relevant for firewall policies...
...small always-on-top window in a corner of one of my screens. On Ubuntu, you can use a PPA to install: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mitya57/ppa
On Ubuntu, you can scroll horizontally with your mouse wheel when holding the Shift key while scrolling. It does not work in all applications, but many support it...
If you're on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install ruby-dev On other platforms: Look for a package containing ruby header files. On Red Hat that's "ruby-devel" likely...
...pidgin IM fails to connect to ICQ, you may need to update it. The ubuntu default sources are usually outdated. Just follow the instructions 1-4 and 1-3 on...
...group chat issues with non-linux clients. If you have previously installed skype via ubuntu packages, you need to remove those fist via sudo apt-get remove skype skype-bin...
Upgrade seems to work fine. If you installed your old skype from a Ubuntu repository, you need to remove it first using: sudo apt-get remove skype
For newer Ubuntu versions we currently need to install the patch level version 1.8.7-p375, otherwise the dev dependencies from openssl will cause the installation to fail.
...version. If you're installing RubyMine for the first time, see install RubyMine under Ubuntu. You might also consider installing RubyMine with snap, so it can receive automatic updates (also...
...walkthrough on how to get a browser testing suite for free on OSX or Ubuntu...
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NVM provides you more convenient way to manage and set up your Javascript(Node.js) environment. First install NVM, note git...
...current nginx installed with: nginx -V you will see something like nginx version: nginx/1.6.2 (Ubuntu) TLS SNI support enabled configure arguments: --with-cc-opt='-g -O2 -fPIE -fstack-protector-strong...
/usr/share/nginx/sbin/nginx -V output will be like nginx version: nginx/1.9.9 built by gcc 4.9.2 (Ubuntu 4.9.2-10ubuntu13) built with OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014 TLS SNI support enabled...