So you want to know if you are on natty, precise, quantal, or something else? Check /etc/lsb-release. $ cat /etc/lsb-release
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This is awesome. Only ran smoothly in Chrome. Is a slideshow in Firefox.
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Do not investigate in the 2342 tools that exist for migrating IMAP accounts from one server to another. They all...
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Use Socket.gethostname. So for a machine whose hostname is "happycat", it will look like this: >> Socket.gethostname => "happycat" That should work...
When doing a git blame, git will blame the person who added or removed white space in a line (e.g...
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This article contains: Making ‘git diff’ wrap long lines Set a global proxy Clone only a specific branch
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If - for whatever reason - you have to render stylesheets dynamically, the following snippet might be of help. It emulates what...
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