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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...

If bower complains about a missing node binary, do not install Ubuntu's node package. Instead, you need to create...

Google Calendar integration into Thunderbird suddenly did not work any more for me. Thunderbird kept asking me for my password...

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Put the font files (e.g. ttf) into ~/.fonts Run fc-cache -v Or, if you prefer to use the GUI...

Firefox 5.0.1, which we were using for most Rails 2.3 projects, does not run on Ubuntu 14.04 any more. Here...

Just install the texlive-xetex package: sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex Running integration tests without texlive-xetex will produce...

When your system is not running on English, you may sometimes want to run some applications and not use your...

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We will be installing rbenv and ruby-build from our own fork, not from the Ubuntu sources. Installing rbenv

Getting rid of your old LibreOffice Remove your old LibreOffice: sudo apt-get remove libreoffice* You probably also want to...

If you get an error like this: An error occurred while installing pg (0.17.1), and Bundler cannot continue.

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Skype has been updated to 4.3 on Linux. This fixes group chat issues with non-linux clients.

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MuPDF is a PDF reader that renders very quickly, yet still correctly. It supports PDF 1.7 and all the fancy...

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Sometimes you may want to print files from the command line, especially when you have lots of them.

On Ubuntu, you can scroll horizontally with your mouse wheel when holding the Shift key while scrolling.

Your development machine is usually on a very good network connection. To test how your application behaves on a slow...

Rbenv won't compile REE 2011.03 properly on Ubuntu 12.04, failing with an error in tcmalloc.cc. If you want to...

In /etc/rc.local add: service bluetooth stop

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64, Ruby 1.8.7, Rails 2.13, PDFKit 0.5.4, Phusion Passenger Apache 2 I ran into this, when I...

Ubuntu has a package mysql-sandbox that lets you install multiple MySQL versions into your user home: Install mysql-sandbox...

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For all late night coders: The program "redshift" changes your monitors' white balance according to your position on the planet...

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$RANDOM on bash returns a random integer between 0 and 32767. echo $RANDOM 9816 echo $RANDOM 30922

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Sometimes sound breaks for me and speaker output is completely broken. This helped: pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload

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Good article that tells you how to change behavior of certain keys via xmodmap (with the help of exv if...