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After countless hours of trying to resolve issues with screen flickering and a host of other graphics issues, I finally managed to get the graphics working correctly with the GTX…

There are quite a few guides out there on how to do what I'd consider a pretty essential part of manager a Ceph storage cluster, yet the ones I came…

To shift the application launcher icon to the top by issuing the following command: gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-apps-at-top true To show the icon at the bottom of the application bar…

A handy little script to output which Ceph OSD it mapped to which drive serial number: #!/bin/bash DISKS=`ceph-disk list | grep "ceph data"` old_IFS=$IFS IFS=$'n' #echo $DISKS for DISK in…

From time to time you might need to create partitions manually in order to install Ubuntu on a specific hard drive in a multi-drive PC. Get started by deleting all…

When working on the frontend for Spring web apps, you will probably have come across an issue where you'll need to reload the app each time you change one line…

Thunderbird on Ubuntu sometimes displays enlarged icons for mails containing certain emoticons. To solve this you can run the following command: sudo apt-get install fonts-symbola

It can sometimes be quite a mission to get Nvidia graphics cards working correctly with Ubuntu/Linux. I recently encountered an issue where after installing the drivers (for the GTX 1060)…

A nice simple query to find duplicate rows in MySQL: SELECT COLUMN_NAME, COUNT(*) c FROM TABLE GROUP BY COLUMN_NAME HAVING c > 1; Credit to the Tin Man

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