$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...
As described by the linked Stackoverflow answer, run these commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa -y
sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby
Run dconf-editor (as your user) Go to org / mate / panel / objects / clock / prefs Change the key format to custom...
To create a 10 GB file: fallocate -l 10G huge_file.dat
In /etc/rc.local add: service bluetooth stop
Make sure you have libcurl3-dev installed: sudo apt-get install libcurl3-dev gem install typhoeus
Good article that tells you how to change behavior of certain keys via xmodmap (with the help of exv if...
Also works on Gnome 2 Much prettier than Skype notifications Better visibility
i686 means 32-bit.
To list the name and version of your Linux distribution, type the following: cat /etc/*-release
I’m working on a problem for a client which involves connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database from...
...will be installing rbenv and ruby-build from our own fork, not from the Ubuntu sources. Installing rbenv Install rbenv: git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv For Bash:
...old Rubies (<= 2.3) with a standard rbenv + ruby-build is no longer possible on Ubuntu 20.04. This is because those Rubies depend on OpenSSL 1.0 which is no longer shipped...
...with current Ubuntus. We have forked ruby-build with a workaround that makes it compile and statically link the latest OpenSSL 1.0 version. This works on Ubuntu 20.04, as well...