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 few releases back, Chrome started using a Material Design UI on desktop. If you don't like it (on...
On OSX (real or inside Browserstack), you need different keystrokes for your favorite special characters than you'd use on...
By convention, common protocols use a defined port, like 80 for HTTP or 443 for HTTPS. You can use nmap...
So you downloaded a theme for Chrome a while ago and don't remember which one it is?
I had an issue with icons from an icon font aligning differently on Linux, iOS and Windows (seemingly browser-independent...
Processes in Linux might be put into Swap ("virtual memory") occasionally. Even parts of a single process might be removed...
Many of our developers love to use the "awesome" window manager on Linux. However, RubyMine dialogs occasionally defocus while typing...
Instead of using this hack you might want to use MariaDB 10.x which can work with both old and...
Chrome has discontinued support for 32-Bit Linux builds and this might break your apt-get update.
If you are on a Linux shell and want to open a file with whatever default application is configured for...
The following sums up all connections (ESTABLISHED, TIME_WAIT, FIN_WAIT, etc.) and sorts it: netstat -n | awk ' $5 ~ /^[0...
You login to a Linux server with a performance issue: what do you check in the first minute? uptime
The nokogiri gem provides different packages for several platforms. Each platform-specific variant ships pre-built binaries of libxml2, e.g...
When you make a simple TCP connection to a remote server (like telnet), your client won't normally notice when...
Article shows how to make a script that fakes one kind of content when printed with cat, but uses different...
PhantomJS has no binary builds for Linux, and building it yourself is painful. However, you can install it through npm...
I recommend install Node.js using nvm. This way you can have multiple Node versions in your ~/.nvm. You also won...
After adding a vdisk to an ESXi linux guest you will assert that you can't find a new device...
There are some frontends available, but they all suck, are no longer maintained or are hard to install.
This is useful to kill processes like ruby my-script.rb: pkill -f my-script.rb With great power comes great responsibility.
If you get this error (probably because you want to load some modules): # modprobe xt_comment FATAL: Could not load...
Traveling Ruby is a project which supplies self-contained, "portable" Ruby binaries: Ruby binaries that can run on any Linux...
Adobe no longer supports their PDF reader on Linux and the official page does not offer it for download. \