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When using gnome-open (i.e. double-clicking a file, telling to browser to open a download, etc.) on Ubuntu you...
My front audio output would not work even though the front mic input did fine. The Pulse Audio mixer (= Ubuntu...
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You know there is the du command to fetch the disk usage of a directory (“.” in this example). By default...
If you want to enforce soft tabs (spaces instead of tabstops) in Vim put this into your ~/.vimrc (Linux) or...
When running an executable, ALWAYS use bundle exec. In some cases, running executables without bundle exec may work, if the...
Deprecated ways to execute shell code in Ruby This is just a reference for legacy code. For new code, always...
You probably already manage servers you often connect to inside the ~/.ssh/config file. What is nice: you may define alias...
When your cucumber features grow massively over time, the test execution can take a lot of time.
One of the more controversial changes in the Ubuntu 10.04 beta is the Mac OS-inspired change to have window...
If you copy the data files of a VirtualBox machine to another PC without exporting it as an .ova appliance...
Soon after having written our shell-for script, we wanted to easily get dumps of our productions machines, too. This...
After having written useful scripts into makandra notes for a long time, we’ve now tied them into a powerful...
Since May 2011 we are cutting new gems using Bundler, which is less painful than cutting gems using Jeweler. You...
Today I needed to execute a ruby gem executable with sudo. But, surprisingly, bash would tell me command not found...
Before installing chef, make sure curl is installed and sudo finds your gems setup chef-client: follow this guide
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When you simply want to get to know Puppet, follow puppetlabs’ Learning Puppet Docs. They give you a handy introduction...
Install Ubuntu Server Download an image from this site Select File > New… to and follow the instructions, choose the .iso...
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After a new system installation, Ubuntu One starts automatically and seems to try to sync your complete home directory. This...
When you want to quickly boot from a drive or image in a virtual machine you do not need to...