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...
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...
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There are some frontends available, but they all suck, are no longer maintained or are hard to install.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. \
Option 0: Download from the official page (preferred) Open https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/ In Section "Stable" > chromedriver / linux64 > Download ZIP from...
tlmgr is the TeX Live Manager and responsible for the TeX installation on your (Linux) machine. If you're getting...
When your system is not running on English, you may sometimes want to run some applications and not use your...
curl http://ipecho.net/plain; echo
Skype has been updated to 4.3 on Linux. This fixes group chat issues with non-linux clients.
See screenshot here. This is great news because network throttling is very painful in Linux. The features are already in...
When you tell rbenv to install a Ruby it does not know about, you will get an error message.
Sometimes you may want to print files from the command line, especially when you have lots of them.