Restart Network Manager

sudo systemctl restart network-manager

Change vim colours or more specifically to change the comments from blue to somehting more readable.

This works on Slackware

Create or edit your /home/user/.vimrc file, adding the following;

:set background = dark

To relocate existing codebase to a new svn location

If we have an svn url which we backup and restore to a new url, then we can update existing source to point to the new url as below;

swap on slackware

 

To download and execture a script automatically in Linux

If we want to ensure that we are always running the most recent version of a script, then we can use curl as below;

curl -s http://192.168.254.198/stuff/scripts/myscript.sh | bash -s arg1 arg2 arg3

where http://192.168.254.198/stuff/scripts/myscript.sh is the location of the script, reachable from the target machine and arg1, arg2, arg3 are optional parameters that would be applicable if the script was run from the command line as ./myscript.sh arg1 arg2 arg3

 

To rename a drive or partition in Linux

tunefs -l name /dev/sda1

where name is the name we wish to use and /dev/sda1 is the target partition.

VirtualBox Network Settings

 

HOWTO use Acronis Backup or Restore boot disk without a mouse

ALT + [LEFT SHIFT] + [NUM LOCK]

Then we can use the cursor keys or mouse keys with ENTER being a LEFT CLICK

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Issue on Mac with Corsair K95

Automatically open the Google Chrome browser with Developer Tools

 To open Chrome with Developer Tools all the time, you simply open in with the following arguments;

--args --auto-open-devtools-for-tabs

To have this done in PhpStorm goto Tools>Web Browsers and edit Chrome, adding in the above to the Command Line Options field.