After many years of using screen I recently started getting familiar with tmux. This is my current .tmux.conf:
How to export/import gnome-terminal profiles
You only need dconf to export/import gnome-terminal profiles. To export all gnome-terminal profiles run: $ dconf dump /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/ > gnome-terminal-profiles.dconf To import the exported profiles above, run: $ dconf load /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/ < gnome-terminal-profiles.dconf If you want to export and then
PHP.ini settings to increase file size and number of uploads
In addition to changing your code, you also need to change the setting on the server to accommodate uploading larger file sizes. The settings that need to be changed are in the php.ini file: sudo vi /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini (the path here
The Android SDK Manager fails to fetch the platform and tools list from Google
If you get the following error message when launching the Android SDK Manager: Failed to fetch URL https://dl.google.com/android/repository/addons_list-2.xml, reason: File not found most likely the owner/permissions are not set correctly for the ~/.android directory. This error message is very confusing
Find out what DNS requests are made in real time via command line
Since all DNS requests are over port 53, we can use the raw tcpdump utility and just look at the packets on that port: tcpdump -vvv -s 0 -l -n port 53 Someone took the extra step to write a
Set up a MySQL user dedicated to backups
It is not a good idea to use the root MySQL account to do backups. So, let’s create a user dedicated exclusively to doing backups. Log on to MySQL as root: mysql -u root -p Then create the new user
Batch scale images to a particular size
First install imagemagick: sudo apt-get install imagemagick Then CD into the directory containing the images and make a new directory that will hold all the re-sized images. In this case I called it resized: mkdir resized Then run the command
Upgrading to Apache 2.4 will prevent WebDAV listing of directories containing index files
I recently upgraded Apache from 2.2 to 2.4 and among all the expected changes that had to be made to the existing sites-available config files, I encountered an unexpected issue with the WebDAV sites. I could connect to the sites
Change the date and time (or any other EXIF image meta-data) of pictures with Ubuntu
There is a very flexible and easy Linux tool that helps you change the EXIF meta-data of images. It allows you to change individual files or whole bunch of them with one command. You can also put different rules about
How to Resume Partial File Transfers
I work primarily with UNIX and Linux machines and scp is my main choice to transfer files with. It is both convenient, short and secure. Example: scp localfile user@remotecomputer:/path/to/target/dir Recently I was transferring an 8GB file and due to a