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Two tools are now available in the GitHub repository located at https://github.com/ctheroux/LinuxUtilities-Users to create a program launcher for most Linux systems. The first version of them is a command-line version

To install Pronterface on Unbuntu, first install the dependencies. sudo apt-get install python-serial python-wxgtk3.0 python-pyglet \ python-numpy cython python-libxml2 python-gobject python-dbus \ python-psutil python-cairosvg libpython-dev git Then, download Pronterface git

This script creates a git project to be shared among the users of the Unix group $GIT_GROUP. Every git project will be created into the directory $REPOSITORIES_BASE_DIR. #!/bin/bash # Base

Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) / Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) are the errors displayed when the kernel driver needs to be recompiled. It usually happens when updates to Ubuntu are

SSH port forwarding let you connect to a server using another server a relay. For example, if you host a web server in a DMZ behind your office router, you

Sometimes, widget disappears from the Top Menu Bar Widget Panel of Unity. The Widget Panel can be reset using the following command: killall unity-panel-service

Ubuntu sometimes assumes that the hardware clock of the computer is set to GMT. If the hardware clock is set to local time, set UTC=no in /etc/default/rcS.

By default, the data directory of MySQL is /var/lib/mysql. This can be a security issue, especially on a laptop. If your home directory is encrypted, you can easily secure you

Sometimes, the message “The Update Information Is Outdated” is displayed when you click on a red warning red icon in the status bar. It happened to me last week. This

Changing the login screen background is easy but not obvious. The image file you want to use as the login screen background must have a read access for everyone. Open

These easy steps will improve significantly the security of your Apache2 SSL server. Edit your /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ssl.conf file and replace the SSLProtocol, SSLCipherSuite and SSLHonorCipherOrder parameters with the following values. SSLCipherSuite

Installing libnfc for PN532 based NFC reader is not exactly as described in the documentation. Some information is scattered in the documentation. This installation guide has been tested with the

Setting up an Internet Gateway using Ubuntu is pretty straight forward. In order to do so, you will need: A computer with two network interfaces. One hooked to your WAN

Installing Memcached with php support in Ubuntu is a matter of a few steps: sudo apt-get install memcached php5-memcached sudo service apache2 restart You can test if memcached is active

phpMyAdmin session timeout is controlled through two parameters. The first one can be found in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini. It is called session.gc_maxlifetime. The other one can be found in the phpMyAdmin configuration

After upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04.01, I ran into two issues: One with Apache2 and one with Samba 4. Apache has been upgraded from 2.2.22 to 2.4.7. The content was no

Simply issue this command: usermod -m -d /home/new-account-name -l new-account-name old-account-name It creates the home directory if it does not exists. It also copy the stuff of the old user

If you are getting the following errors while trying to install Apache on Trusty (Ubuntu 14.04), execute the commands below and try to re-install it. Preparing to unpack …/apache2_2.4.7-1ubuntu4_amd64.deb …

After installing Skype on Ubuntu 14.04, there is no icon in the status bar. To restore it, simply execute the following command: sudo apt-get install sni-qt:i386 . This procedure works

From a terminal window, type in: lsb_release -a