ubuntudigest.blogspot.de

The linked article describes how to use a Firefox addon "Flash-Aid" to install a better build of Flash and...

Note: You might also want to check out BoxCryptor which does pretty much the same, and is supported across many...

Every time I started RubyMine, it opened the main window on the left monitor -- when moving it to the center...

This is a way to run multiple redis server on one ubuntu server. These steps you have to do only...

After you configured your ODBC describe in Fix [RubyODBC]Cannot allocate SQLHENV when connecting to MSSQL 2005 with Ruby 1.8.7...

I followed this nice guide Connecting to MSSQL with Ruby on Ubuntu - lambie.org until I ran in the following errors...

Sometimes you need to restart the Gnome panel, e.g. when you installed a new Gnome panel widget but the widget...

makandra dev

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...

sgruendel.blogspot.com

When you install Type 1 fonts (like makandra's corporate typeface), they won't show up in OpenOffice. OpenOffice requires...

awsdocs.s3.amazonaws.com

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...

webupd8.org

Great blog with daily news and HOWTOs for Ubuntu, Linux and Gnome.

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...

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pdfposter.origo.ethz.ch

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...