Install BCM4360 Wi-Fi drivers in Ubuntu for Macbook Pro 13" Retina display mid 2014

Ubuntu 14.04 doesn’t install by default any driver suitable for the Wi-Fi device in the Macbook Pro 13" Retina display mid 2014 (A1502 model or MacBookPro11,1). This is what you can see…

Enable hosting files outside /var/www in Apache2

I’m using Ubuntu and Mac OS X in my computer. I wanted both to share a partition to put all the things that could be duplicated in both systems: DropBox, downloads, music, etc. The websites I’m developing would be also there but I was getting…

Changing rEFInd options

If you use rEFInd to boot multiple operating systems in a Mac you may want to change it’s options. For example the default 20 second timeout, in my opinion too long.

Booting from Mac OS X you’ll have to mount the rEFInd partition. You can see which partition it…

Create a bootable Ubuntu USB drive from an ISO in Ubuntu

The first thing we need to do is download an Ubuntu ISO file. The second one is plugin the USB drive and discover which device file it is related with. Using dmesg can help us with this:

$ dmesg
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Disable and enable Spotlight

Disable:

$ sudo mdutil -a -i off

Enable:

$ sudo mdutil -a -i on

Use SSH config file to easely connect to servers via alias names

I don’t have a very good memory and always have problems remembering my servers names when connecting to them via SSH. I usually used this “solution”:

$ history | grep ssh

Generate a file with current Xorg server configuration

Run from a terminal this command:

$ sudo X :2 -configure

It’ll create a file in current users home folder called xorg.conf.new with all the configuration used at that moment by the…