How to use your iPhone's internet connection on your Ubuntu machine via USB

Boot partitions from installations prior to the 16.04 era are terribly small. When you install updates and encounter errors due to a full /boot partition, consider risizing it.

If you can't do the steps described below, ask someone experienced ...

So you want to know if you are on natty, precise, quantal, or something else? Check /etc/lsb-release.

$ cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS"
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This note describes how to setup a box running Ubuntu to share its Internet connection with another PC.

• You will need two network interfaces to do this. One will connect to the Internet (e.g. UMTS card), one will share the connection with the o...

Capistrano 2 brings the shell command which allows you to run commands on your deployment targets.
There is also invoke to run a command directly from your terminal.

Both commands allow running Capistrano tasks or shell commands, and scope to...

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).

Troubleshooting...

I really love to use the shortcuts CTRL+Alt+ Arrow Left and CTRL+Alt+ Arrow Right to navigate through the code. It worked great on Ubuntu 18.04 and MATE but after migrating to my new notebook with GNOME and Ubuntu 20.04, I realized tha...

By convention, common protocols use a defined port, like 80 for HTTP or 443 for HTTPS.

You can use nmap to find out what service is running behind a given port, and most often see some details about it. This can be helpful if servers don't offe...

In Slack, the settings dialog only offers a fixed selection of fonts. You can use any font you like using the /slackfont command.

Fonts need to be installed on your machine. Webfonts beyond those provided by Slack won't magically work unless yo...

Sometimes you want git to ignore certain files that appear on your machine. You can do this in 3 ways:

• Per project, in the project's .gitignore file
• Per project, in [a local exclude file](https://makandracards.com/makandra/3201-how-to-ignor...

If you want to have an English Ubuntu UI, but still see dates, money amounts, paper formats, etc. in German formats, you can fine-tune your /etc/default/locale like this:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.U...