If you need to find all files inside a directory that were modified in the last 24 hours you can...

Sometimes files attain executable-flags that they do not need, e.g. when your Windows VM copies them over a Samba...

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You may omit the /path/to/link_name to have a link with the same filename appear in the current directory

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To pause and send a task to the background ctrl+z to reactivate the task fg to run task in...

Open the configuration file: gksudo gedit /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm Find a line like this: :co#80:it#8:li#24:\

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From the shell: ls -l | wc -l

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Some browsers render PNG images with color profiles and other shenanigans, some don't. The cleanest way to have consistent...

Append this to your ~/.bashrc: export PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w\[\033[31m\]$(__git_ps1 "(%s...

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I’m working on a problem for a client which involves connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database from...

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I've recently moved from using Parallels for browser testing to Sun's Open Source VirtualBox. Here's a walkthrough...

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Next in our series on not shooting yourself in the foot: Doing a sudo shutdown -h now on the main...

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The FUSE project allows you to create filesystems in userspace - which means you can create a filesystem without having to...

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Ubuntu is phasing out the notification area (a.k.a. “system tray”), because of its ineffectiveness at notifying people of things, and...

Insert into ~/.bashrc and reload afterwards: source ~/.bashrc PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[41;33m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m...