Sometimes you need to restart the Gnome panel, e.g. when you installed a new Gnome panel widget but the widget...
This describes all the steps you'll need to get Solr up and running for your project using the Sunspot...
I have a pair of headphones connected to my desktop's back panel and a headset connected to the front...
If you want to use Require group $GROUPNAME on your default Apache installation like this: Order allow,deny Allow from...
When you install Type 1 fonts (like makandra's corporate typeface), they won't show up in OpenOffice. OpenOffice requires...
There is a new card about how to do this with the new AWS Command Line Interface
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...
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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...
Note that if you plan to downgrade Firefox because your Selenium tests broke after a Firefox upgrade, there is a...
Pdfposter is a Python script that allows to convert large PDFs into a PDF with multiple pages that can be...
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...
Note: Consider using MATE instead of Gnome 3 on newer system Awesome is a very good tiling window manager that...
VirtualBox does not offer anything for this task -- you need to do it yourself. It's not that hard:
Install Ruby from the Ubuntu repository: sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev \ ruby is the meta package. If you...
sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby
If you are exchanging files with a client via Dropbox you do not need to access the Web page every...
In order to rename your Ubuntu box, replace all occurences of the the old name in the following two files...
If you want to have an English Ubuntu UI, but still see dates, money amounts, paper formats, etc. in German...