Some folks have started to keep their linux configuration in a git repository called "dotfiles". This sounds like a good...
VirtualBox does not offer anything for this task – you need to do it yourself. It's not that hard:
When you do a bitwise copy using the dd tool you will not see any output until it completes or...
cpulimit is a simple program which attempts to limit the cpu usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in...
If you are exchanging files with a client via Dropbox you do not need to access the Web page every...
If you want to have an English Ubuntu UI, but still see dates, money amounts, paper formats, etc. in German...
In shell scripts you can use $1 to refer to the first argument, $2 for the second, etc. If you...
This is somewhat similar to the touch command of Linux: FileUtils.touch 'example.txt', :mtime => Time.now - 2.hours If you omit the :mtime...
If you need Google Chrome to run in English, and your system locale is a non-English one, you have...
You know there is the du command to fetch the disk usage of a directory (“.” in this example). By default...
If you want to enforce soft tabs (spaces instead of tabstops) in Vim put this into your ~/.vimrc (Linux) or...
You probably already manage servers you often connect to inside the ~/.ssh/config file. What is nice: you may define alias...
One of the more controversial changes in the Ubuntu 10.04 beta is the Mac OS-inspired change to have window...
When you simply want to get to know Puppet, follow puppetlabs’ Learning Puppet Docs. They give you a handy introduction...
Reading a URL via GET: curl http://example.com/ Defining any HTTP method (like POST or PUT): curl http://example.com/users/1...
When installing RMagick you may get an error messages like this: Version 2.13.1: checking for Ruby version >= 1.8.5... yes
If you want to manually check if e-mail delivery works on a machine by sending an e-mail you...
blueprint is DevStructure’s workhorse tool that looks inside popular package managers, finds changes you made to configuration files, and...
My T410 has a NVIDIA graphics card (NVS 3100M). My BIOS configuration looks like this: NVIDIA Optimus is disabled in...
Although you can access many symbols using the AltGr key you may be missing some, like the en-dash (–) or...
This note is a reminder that there is something called AppArmor that could cause weird errors ("File not found", "Can...
Using OpenSSL it's very easy to seriously encrypt files. Use the script below. Input / Output are self explanatory. Put...
When you delete a file with rm it's still possible to recover the file or parts of it. Use...
Sometimes you want to run a command forever, e.g. to compile a haml to html file on the console. Use...