To get your F12 key back for other shortcuts, stop Tilda: killall tilda To prevent Tilda from starting on boot...

I've encountered a Ubuntu 16.04 today, where localhost resolved to ::1 instead of 127.0.0.1. This will not usually make...

For some years Google Chrome has allowed you to add desktop icon for any web page by going to Tools...

To add a new panel in MATE: Right-click on an existing panel and choose New Panel

Edit /etc/default/bind9 and change OPTIONS="-u bind" to OPTIONS="-u bind -d 50 -g" Restart BIND and you'll see...

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...

Awesome is a very good tiling window manager that provides neat features like automatic layouting of windows, good multi-display...

Enter any command into explainshell and it will explain it to you: split into separate commands (if present), with each...

If you are on a Linux shell and want to open a file with whatever default application is configured for...

Cause logstaglia is so cool you may want to record a video. We're lucky: Logstalgia has a parameter for...

As described by the linked Stackoverflow answer, run these commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa -y

From time to time, RubyMine suddenly did not accept any keyboard input and felt crashed, while mouse interaction was still...

Use this snippet by Achu from Ask Ubuntu: ping hostname.tld | while read pong; do echo "$(date): $pong"; done

PhantomJS has no binary builds for Linux, and building it yourself is painful. However, you can install it through npm...

First install Node.js / npm. Then you can install Bower through npm: sudo npm install -g bower

I recommend install Node.js using nvm. This way you can have multiple Node versions in your ~/.nvm. You also won...

CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + N Search for any symbol in your application, like CSS classes, Ruby classes, methods, helpers etc...

sslscan is a nice tool to show details about TLS/SSL connections: ~> sslscan some-host-at.makandra.de Testing SSL server some-host-at.makandra.de on port 443...

I was annoyed that RubyMine's autocompletion did not work via Ctrl+Space for me. In fact, it did not...

dmesg shows the kernel ring buffer containing low-level system messages. Per default, dmesg shows a timestamp:

There are some frontends available, but they all suck, are no longer maintained or are hard to install.

I couldn't successfully execute a simple iptables command and got this error on an Ubuntu server: # /sbin/iptables -I INPUT...

Make sure you have libcurl3-dev installed: sudo apt-get install libcurl3-dev gem install typhoeus