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This one started out as a nice morning surprise. A bad habit of mine is to turn on the computer in the morning, almost while I’m stretching after waking up. Not much later, I was greeted with the following message: Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key Naturally, I thought that my S...

Chances are, when you want to compile something from source, you will need to install an exotic dependency or two on your box beforehand. Do this enough times, and your screams won’t be able to penetrate the software bloat you built around yourself. Docker’s great isolation and flexibilty proved to be a great asset for building custom build env...

Application shortcuts can be added to Unity by creating special .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/. These shortcut definitions appear in the Dash from where they can be dragged to the Unity launcher. Creating a simple shortcut These files follow a simple syntax: they consist of groups and key-value pairs. Groups are used to define addi...

Installation of Ubuntu 14.04 (or any other distro really) on a configuration with an AMD 970 + SB950 chipset is not as straightforward as you may think. In my particular case, the motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3. I will describe some workarounds I’ve found, while trying to make the penguins happy. Tieing the shoolaces The first issue ar...