After a recent Ubuntu update I didn't see the main menu bar of the RubyMine IDE (File | Edit | View...

I experienced a lot of issues with google chrome that made it almost impossible to work with it. Here are...

When you have many changes, and you want to spread them across different commits, here is a way to stage...

Embedding videos on a website is very easy, add a tag to your source code and it just works...

Because colors improve readability so much. On Ubuntu 18.04 you can install it with sudo apt install grc

Im using the terminator terminal with the keyboard shortcut Control+Shift+E for splitting the terminal. I got used to...

Travis changed their default distribution from Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) to 16.04 (precise). This might break your test setup for new...

Ubuntu has decided to disable PDF processing because ImageMagick and the underlying Ghostscript had several security issues. When your Ghostscript...

Boot partitions from installations prior to the 16.04 era are terribly small. When you install updates and encounter errors due...

You might have some trouble running a Rails LTS 2 app with MySQL 5.7. If you don't want to...

On your local system that only hosts non-critical development data and only you have access to, you can store...

We're usually running Ubuntu LTS versions. Sometimes newer hardware requires packages from more recent Ubuntu releases that only come...

While the hardware mute button of my Lenovo x230 worked on Ubuntu 14.04 out of the box, it does not...

On my Ubuntu MATE machine, switching applications with ALT + TAB was impossible, because it took nearly 2 seconds. The culprit...

You need to disable "Bluetooth low energy", then follow these core steps: Make sure the headphones are in pairing mode...

You can configure a Ubuntu system as a gateway in order to share it's internet connection (maybe via WLAN...

Ubuntu might create several keyrings for you. Note that keyring passwords are initially set to the user password but do...

Luckily, this is simple. Just install three packages: sudo apt install ipheth-utils libimobiledevice-dev libimobiledevice-utils

Add the following to /etc/rc.local: (sleep 3 && echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth)& Bluetooth icon will be active for a few seconds, then...

To create a 10 GB file: fallocate -l 10G huge_file.dat

You may know the double asterisk operator from Ruby snippets like Dir['spec/**/*_spec.rb'] where it expands to an arbitrary...

Run dconf-editor (as your user) Go to org / mate / panel / objects / clock / prefs Change the key format to custom...