On Ubuntu, you can scroll horizontally with your mouse wheel when holding the Shift key while scrolling.
Your development machine is usually on a very good network connection. To test how your application behaves on a slow...
Rbenv won't compile REE 2011.03 properly on Ubuntu 12.04, failing with an error in tcmalloc.cc. If you want to...
In /etc/rc.local add: service bluetooth stop
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64, Ruby 1.8.7, Rails 2.13, PDFKit 0.5.4, Phusion Passenger Apache 2 I ran into this, when I...
Ubuntu has a package mysql-sandbox that lets you install multiple MySQL versions into your user home: Install mysql-sandbox...
For all late night coders: The program "redshift" changes your monitors' white balance according to your position on the planet...
$RANDOM on bash returns a random integer between 0 and 32767. echo $RANDOM 9816 echo $RANDOM 30922
Sometimes sound breaks for me and speaker output is completely broken. This helped: pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload
Good article that tells you how to change behavior of certain keys via xmodmap (with the help of exv if...
Usually, the logrotate service takes care of renaming log files each night or so to avoid logs becoming huge. That...
So you want to know if you are on natty, precise, quantal, or something else? Check /etc/lsb-release. $ cat /etc/lsb-release
If others on a call (Skype, SIP, ...) can not hear you loud enough, your volume levels are probably too low...
When your file manager sorts file case-sensitively after a distribution upgrade, you probably need to reconfigure your locale settings...
If you can now longer hear or record sounds after upgrading Ubuntu, you probably need to re-tell Ubuntu which...
Setup the mirror by following the steps described here. If you want to enable OS upgrades using do-release-upgrade...
This article describes how to reset MySQL's or MariaDB's root password on your workstation. It's meant for...
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback or (alias) sudo apt-get install gnome-panel from a terminal.
Every now and then, Java is subject to security issues where code can break out of Java's sandbox and...
ReText is a cross-platform WYSIWYG-ish Markdown editor. Toggle editor and preview layout with Ctrl+E.\
This will make MySQL log all received queries so you can see for yourself what happens on the database level...
Today, I ran into trouble on a fairly fresh installed VM, running Ubuntu. I tried to bundle install and got...
If you want to install rabbitmq plugins on Ubuntu 12.04 you can do this with: /usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-2.7.1/sbin/rabbitmq-plugins This binary is not...
I've got often this error on just one server: Err http://de.archive.ubuntu.com precise/universe amd64 Packages 404 Not Found [IP...