If you get an error like this: An error occurred while installing pg (0.17.1), and Bundler cannot continue.
When your file manager sorts file case-sensitively after a distribution upgrade, you probably need to reconfigure your locale settings...
In older Ubuntu releases you could ALT+drag any panel bar to another position and/or monitor. In Ubuntu 11.04 Natty you need to perform the steps from the attached article...
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback or (alias) sudo apt-get install gnome-panel from a terminal.
On my Ubuntu MATE machine, switching applications with ALT + TAB was impossible, because it took nearly 2 seconds. The culprit appears to be an "UX improvement" gone bad: MATE renders...
You can use fold: fold -sw 60 You can now paste your texts. fold will echo them back, word-wrapped...
Just install the texlive-xetex package: sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex Running integration tests without texlive-xetex will produce...
DeaDBeeF is one of the better music players for Linux. You can find installation instructions here.
When doing a presentation you may want to hide your desktop icons. You can switch them off (or back on...
PhantomJS has no binary builds for Linux, and building it yourself is painful. However, you can install it through npm...
Put the font files (e.g. ttf) into ~/.fonts Run fc-cache -v Or, if you prefer to use the GUI...
Add the following to /etc/rc.local: (sleep 3 && echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth)& Bluetooth icon will be active for a few seconds, then...
When you drag a file from a Nautilus window into a terminal window, the file's path will be pasted...
Edit /etc/default/bind9 and change OPTIONS="-u bind" to OPTIONS="-u bind -d 50 -g" Restart BIND and you'll see...
$RANDOM on bash returns a random integer between 0 and 32767. echo $RANDOM 9816 echo $RANDOM 30922
This will install a printer called "PDF": sudo apt-get install cups-pdf Files will be put into ~/PDF/ without...
You need to install the following packages before you can build the Paperclip gem: sudo apt-get install imagemagick librmagick...
You need to install the following packages before you can build the Nokogiri gem: sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev...
First install Node.js / npm. Then you can install Bower through npm: sudo npm install -g bower
Then turn on the "Personal Hotspot" in iPhone settings, connect it to your Ubuntu machine via USB and you should be up and running...
New way to install an actual puppet version on ubuntu
...apply some optimizations. With this I can now properly watch fullscreen HD videos under Ubuntu...
Ubuntu natty introduced new "invisible" scrollbars for GTK programs such as gEdit or Nautilus. If you do not like them: sudo apt-get purge liboverlay-scrollbar-* In order to have...
...blueprint sees is stored in Git to be diffed and pushed. It runs on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 and newer...