Font Awesome 4 has renamed all icons. What the fuck. Check the attached link for an icon list for the...
Today I ran into trouble installing therubyracer on Ruby 1.8. The installation failed with *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile...
Ubuntu has a package mysql-sandbox that lets you install multiple MySQL versions into your user home: Install mysql-sandbox...
For all late night coders: The program "redshift" changes your monitors' white balance according to your position on the planet...
I had some problems with Git and the file spec/fixtures/ČeskýÁČĎÉĚÍŇÓŘŠŤÚŮÝŽáčďéěíňóřšťúůýž. After pulling the latest commits, it would show that...
$RANDOM on bash returns a random integer between 0 and 32767. echo $RANDOM 9816 echo $RANDOM 30922
Sometimes sound breaks for me and speaker output is completely broken. This helped: pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload
Good article that tells you how to change behavior of certain keys via xmodmap (with the help of exv if...
Option 1: Creating a self-signed certificate with the openssl binary As igalic commented on this gist. openssl req -new...
Usually, the logrotate service takes care of renaming log files each night or so to avoid logs becoming huge. That...
If others on a call (Skype, SIP, ...) can not hear you loud enough, your volume levels are probably too low...
I am talking about development speed. When your application starts growing and you start adding gems, it starts to take...
There is no reason to leave trailing whitespace characters in your project's files, so don't add any.
This article describes how to reset MySQL's or MariaDB's root password on your workstation. It's meant for...
There are many fun Unicode characters like ▲ or ☯. You might be tempted to use them for graphical elements in lieu...
Every now and then, Java is subject to security issues where code can break out of Java's sandbox and...
There was a bug in Skype that could cause messages to be sent to incorrect recipients (anyone, not only people...
If you need the initial user which you used to login to your Linux system or the time when you...
Copy and paste at will, they're free! German quotation marks: „ “ (Ubuntu-Hotkey: AltGr+v and AltGr+b) English quotation...
Also works on Gnome 2 Much prettier than Skype notifications Better visibility
LibreOffice Impress, Writer, etc. doesn't embed most fonts into the PDFs it generates. This means if you share a...
Promises unified window for all chat conversations, better call quality. Upgrade seems to work fine. If you installed your old...
If you are using VNC to run Selenium tests, it may be hard to see what's going on since...
i686 means 32-bit.