How to backup your configuration using Git
This tutorial is about backing up the configuration under a user’s home directory using Git. Git supports negation of patterns in .gitignore files. To negate a pattern we simply …
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This tutorial is about backing up the configuration under a user’s home directory using Git. Git supports negation of patterns in .gitignore files. To negate a pattern we simply …
This tutorial is about changing the UID of a user with an encrypted, by ecryptfs, home directory in Ubuntu. You first need to logout the user you want to modify and kill all …
This tutorial will enable automatic download and installation of security updates for Ubuntu. First we need to install unattended-upgrades: sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades …
Purpose This tutorial aims to help you setup a software RAID-1 (mirror) under ubuntu 13.04 Lets assume the following mapping /dev/sda1 / /dev/sda2 /home /dev/sda3 swap /dev/sda4 …
So you want to learn how to use Emacs… First of all install Emacs (I suggest versions >=24). Then start using it. It is going to be hard in the beginning, but day by day you will …
This tutorial aims to help you setup notmuch for multiple IMAP accounts and use emacs as a frontend. ( At the time writing this tutorial emacs version was 24.3 and notmuch version …
This is a tutorial (more like a code dumb) on how to enable the pdf viewer plugin from google chrome in chromium. wget …
A few weeks ago my precious Acer Aspire 2920z started misbehaving. The symptoms: Power and battery leds flashing as soon as I plug it in. Automatic power on as soon as I plug it …
If you are unable to launch Firefox from URL links in a Thunderbird mail message, or if you want to change the browser that is launched, add the following lines to the user.js …
Create the repo directory (the ‘.’ prefix is to make it hidden) mkdir .myrepo.git Go inside the directory cd .myrepo.git Initialize the git repo git init --bare Our repo is now …