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Shellshock bug Here’s How To Patch It – ReadWrite

September 27, 2014 By wildeng

I wanted to write a small article on how to fix “Shellshock” bug on Apple OSX, but there are many around the net. I found this one on ReadWrite and I think that it’s well written and easy to understand! “Apple is aware of the bash “Shellshock” bug that affects OS X users, and issued […]

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Damaged package tip

November 16, 2013 By wildeng

Hello folks, Just a small Ubuntu tip for all of you. If for some reason while you installing some update, something goes wrong and you get an error due rto damaged packages, opne the terminal and try this: sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt-get update This removes the sources list and updates it. Now you should […]

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Install Solr Search on Ubuntu

October 19, 2013 By wildeng

Hello to everyone, I’d like to share with you the procedure I use to install Apache Solr search server on my Ubuntu machine. Apache Solr is, as indicated on the official website “Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. ” It is written in Java so that […]

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Ubuntu 12.04 connects to local network but not to the Internet Part 2

January 7, 2013 By wildeng

Hello, In my previous post I gave a solution to DNS problem. What happened is that after some other upgrading I found that Network Manager was not populating resolv.conf anymore and that problem arose again. To solve this, I used this command and answered yes to all the questions: sudo dpkg-reconfigure resolvconf Now everything is […]

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Ubuntu 12.04 connects to local network but not to the Internet

December 29, 2012 By wildeng

Last week I upgraded my distro from 11.10 to 12.04 without any problem. After the first update I went to work and I couldn’t reach any website, the only thing I could do was connecting to my office LAN. What happened is that Ubuntu team changed the way of DNS resolving; practically before 12.04 you […]

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Rfkill blocks network manager

December 8, 2012 By wildeng

Sometimes happens that right clicking the network manager tray icon, the option to enable the wi-fi is not selectable; this arises because of the hardware switch or because of a soft block of the wi-fi device caused by some system bug ( a faulty driver or other kernel module can lead to connectivity loss) . The solution […]

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Add a package public key

November 11, 2012 By wildeng

During an upgrade using apt-get, could happen that some packages can’t be authenticated due to the lack of the public key. To solve the problem just use the following command in your terminal , substituting to xxxxx the missing key! sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com xxxxx And that’s all!! Enjoy!

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Install multiple Firefox on Ubuntu

October 15, 2012 By wildeng

Hello folks, working as a web developer, I have to test my code on older Firefox versions or, just for fun, I want to test browser’s beta version so, I need to install different versions of it on my computer. If you need something like this, follow these steps and it will be as easy […]

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Remove MySql from Ubuntu Startup

November 27, 2011 By wildeng

As a developer, sometimes I need to run some CMS on my laptop, so I installed what is, in my opinion, the best combination to run a website Apache and MySql, but why do I need Mysql on startup? It’s unnecessary, so let’s remove from our machine startup: First of all, open the mysql configuration […]

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Enable wireless on Ubuntu’s Network Manager

October 16, 2011 By wildeng

If you tried Ubuntu on a live Cd everything works out of the box. Some problems could arise after installing the operating systems and sometimes network manager is not able to manage the wifi connections. This happens because Network Manager doesn’t manage network interfaces by default, but expects for some other application to do it […]