Here is a good explanation for zombie processes. Quote: If you have zombie processes it means those zombies have not...
Put the attached files into your home directory and enjoy. .irbrc defines interesting_methods, which is essentially all methods without...
Sometimes sound breaks for me and speaker output is completely broken. This helped: pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload
Our development process makes us deploy very often. As the number of releases grows, junk clogs up the hard drive...
Good article that tells you how to change behavior of certain keys via xmodmap (with the help of exv if...
No chance you would have ever guessed it... sudo palimpsest
Option 1: Creating a self-signed certificate with the openssl binary As igalic commented on this gist. openssl req -new...
Authentication is hard: there are many edge cases, and most users (including yourself) usually only go the "happy path" once...
We have often felt the pain where our models need to serve too many masters. E.g. we are adding a...
Create a directory mkdir ~/.aws Initialise git repository cd ~/.aws && git init Create a git branch with a name you...
We ran into trouble when adding additional compute units to our railscomplete Hosting environment lately. VM-instances on the new...
tl;dr: Ruby's Bundler environment is passed on to system calls, which may not be what you may want...
Usually, the logrotate service takes care of renaming log files each night or so to avoid logs becoming huge. That...
When you use heredoc, string interpolation is enabled by default: x = "Universe" <<-MESSAGE Hello #{x} MESSAGE # => "Hello Universe"
Here is a hacky way to load dumps directly from the source server, without fully copying them over and extracting...
tl;dr: Do not use merge! for session hashes. Use update instead. Outline Let's assume you're modifying the...
So you want to know if you are on natty, precise, quantal, or something else? Check /etc/lsb-release. $ cat /etc/lsb-release
If others on a call (Skype, SIP, ...) can not hear you loud enough, your volume levels are probably too low...
Microsoft provides virtual machines for different Internet Explorer versions. The images are available for various virtualization solutions, including VirtualBox...
Upgrade the offending gem. If you cannot or don't want to upgrade, lock rake to 0.8.7.
I needed a way to make my apps full screen from bash scripts. There is no super-easy way, but...
I was unsatisfied with the existing memory status applets for the Xfce panel, so I wrote a little shell script...
The bash offers control over the behavior of autocompletion. The most primitive example is this (just run it in your...
Our old solution for cronjobs, the "craken" plugin, is no longer maintained and does not work on Rails 3.2+.