This is one possibility to do this. There are other and maybe even better ways to do this.
TeamViewer 6 and lower had an issue where they would see a multi-monitor Linux setup as a single wall...
Sometimes you need to restart the Gnome panel, e.g. when you installed a new Gnome panel widget but the widget...
SkypeTab-NG (NG stands for Next Generation) is a tool that adds tabs to Skype for Linux. Besides providing a...
When Rack::Bug has been added to your project and your Apache2/Passenger only replies with an Error 500 (Internal Server...
Web fonts are awesome. After being restricted to Arial for two decades there is finally a cross-browser way to...
When you install Type 1 fonts (like makandra's corporate typeface), they won't show up in OpenOffice. OpenOffice requires...
When using the screen tool you may be unable to start a screen session but instead encounter an error:
The colors in Rails log files are helpful when watching them but, since they are ANSI color codes like ^[[4...
This will reduce the filesize of foo and bar to 0 bytes: truncate -s0 foo bar If the files do...
You can use fold: fold -sw 60 You can now paste your texts. fold will echo them back, word-wrapped...
When you drag a file from a Nautilus window into a terminal window, the file's path will be pasted...
Whenever Firefox updates, all your Cucumber features that use Selenium break. This is annoying. In order to remedy this, version...
Microsoft provides virtual machine disk images to facilitate website testing in multiple versions of IE, regardless of the host operating...
Great blog with daily news and HOWTOs for Ubuntu, Linux and Gnome.
DeaDBeeF is one of the better music players for Linux. You can find installation instructions here.
Note that converting from RGB to CMYK will usually degrade your colors because no exact mapping is possible. Anyway, this...
Use the PDF toolkit: sudo apt-get install pdftk To rotate page 1 by 90 degrees clockwise: pdftk in.pdf cat...
Linux provides a fix number of filesystem watches. If you have some greedy daemon (like dropbox) running, chances are it...
Grep prints one line per match. To return the number if matches, use the -c switch: grep -c "something" filename...
This is now part of geordi. Please don't follow the instructions below, if you use geordi. Inspired by the...
When you have a program running in a hidden X screen (like with Xvfb for Selenium tests) you may want...
Ubuntu comes with keyboard layouts like "Germany Eliminate Dead Keys", which are practical for programming. If you need to type...
Sometimes you need a file of some size (possibly for testing purposes). On Linux, you can use dd to create...