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I wanted to try out the new version of phpstorm and see if the fonts rendered better then the last time I tried it on Ubuntu. OpenJDK has some problem with rendering fonts due to some licensing issues so I had to install oracle Java. In the past

First install the prerequisites:

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sudo apt install libqt5multimedia5-plugins libqt5svg5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqtgui4 libqtcore4 libqt4-xml libqt4-sql
sudo apt install qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5...

For a while I’ve had an extra partition on my Samsung Evo 840 pro SSD with a Windows 10 installation on it. I’m not using it very often but when I need some windows-only software it comes in handy. I’ve used it for updating my TomTom rider and making...

I wanted to try out the new version of phpstorm and see if the fonts rendered better then the last time I tried it on Ubuntu. OpenJDK has some problem with rendering fonts due to some licensing issues so I had to install oracle Java. In the past

I wanted to visualise Vim’s startup time because over time and with the constant triccle of new plugins Vim became slower and slower to start up. Opening vim with a local file wasn’t too slow (700ms) but when using Vim over sshfs it took seconds to...

As reported Netflix now works natively under Linux.

However, some people (including me) reported some troubles under Ubuntu 14.04. After following the described steps by Nathan VanCamp I got an error when opening a video: Error Code: M7063-1913.

On one of my machines the backup the backup process was disturbing running services. I didn’t want to stop the backup process so I decided to lower it’s priorities:

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for pid in `ps aux | grep backup...

I wanted to backport mod_security from Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) to 12.04 (Precise). And not only that, I also wanted to compile it for different ARCH’s. i386 in this example.

So I had to find out how to do that. It turned out that Ubuntu provides a nice...