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How can I create launcher icon for PhpStorm?

I have PhpStorm on my PC, to launch it I have to go to phpstorm/bin/ and launch phpstorm.sh, how can I pin this to launcher so that I dont have to go into folders every time?
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Adding timestamps to terminal prompts?

I was wondering if it was possible to add timestamps to terminal prompts, and if so, how could I achieve this?
Jan Gorzny
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How can I configure Unity's launcher auto-hide behavior?

This has been an issue for me with Unity since its release. I'd like to make the the launcher auto-hide. Especially on Netbooks, where screens are small, the launcher is quite wide, making it difficult to properly display some websites and other…
wilsonliam
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How do I login as root?

I want to login as root, but when I enter sudo -s and enter password, this message is shown: "you are not in sudoers file", and when I enter su and enter password, this is shown: "authentication failure". My os has one account only. about past1…
ava
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Why are some systemd services in the "masked" state?

When I run the command sudo systemctl list-unit-files (I think the sudo is optional), I get output which shows all services and their state. Here is a snippet from my machine: UNIT FILE STATE ... debian-fixup.service…
knb
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How to completely remove virtualbox

I had installed VirtualBox but it started giving me problems. So I uninstalled it using:- sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-\* sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-\* But when I reinstalled VirtualBox it again resumed to previous settings and started giving…
Manish Sakpal
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Getting an "Authentication token manipulation" error when trying to change my user password

I am logging in to my Ubuntu Server using my username. Once I am logged in I am typing passwd command. Entering a new password but a second after getting following error messages: passwd: Authentication token manipulation error passwd: password…
Bakhtiyor
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Can not connect to PostgreSQL listening on port 5432

I installed the Bitnami Django stack which included PostgreSQL 8.4. When I run psql -U postgres I get the following error: psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections…
Assaf Lavie
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How to install Anaconda on Ubuntu?

How to install Anaconda for Python on Ubuntu? Is there a way to use apt-get install? I only have command line access to my server. How do I install Anaconda on Ubuntu 14.04 from the command line?
alvas
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Remove First n Lines of a Large Text File

I need to remove the first 42 lines of a 2GB SQL dump. I know I can view the first lines using: head -n 44 dump.sql But is there anyway to edit or remove them?
Kohjah Breese
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How To Enable WebGL In Chrome On Ubuntu?

chrome://gpu/ And http://webglreport.com/ google-chrome --version Google Chrome 27.0.1453.93 http://www.chromeexperiments.com/webgl How To Enable WebGL In Chrome On Ubuntu ?
Qasim
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Increase mouse wheel scroll speed

As the title says, I want to increase the number of rows that are passed when I use the mouse wheel for scrolling. I know that there exists ways to do that for Firefox and Chromium, although I want something for the entire system, mainly because of…
Rodrigo Oliveira
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How to monitor disk activity?

How do I view my Disk Activity on Ubuntu? For example, How can I monitor what is being written and read from disk as well as the percentage of disk usage? I am looking for an application similar to the Resource Monitor in Windows.
Fritsen
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How do I mount a folder from another partition?

Is there a command to mount a folder from one partition to my main partition? Example of what I'd like to do, which obviously doesn't work: mount /media/tc1/folder /home/dvad/home If not by using a command, is there another way I can do this?
user100541
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There's an issue with an Alpha/Beta Release of Ubuntu, what should I do?

I've been running Alpha releases of Ubuntu for some time now. I keep running into issues - how can I get these resolved? What should I do when I encounter these problems? And where can I find other Ubuntu+1 users to ask questions?
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