Capturing these instructions here, just in my case my laptop fries its own graphics drivers (damn you sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime) and I decide it’s easier to reinstall Ubuntu than fix them…
// I originally ran into this problem and fixed it with WebStorm, but then found another fix via BrowserSync – see the addendum at bottom for more detail
WebStorm is a great IDE for building web apps, front end and back end, and it works on Linux and all the other major OS’s. But the wonderful help links scattered throughout the product don’t always work right out of the box in Ubuntu 14.04 without some WebStorm setup. Here’s what’s wrong and how to fix it (with thanks to Elena and the fantastic WebStorm community support forum)
Upstart is Ubuntu’s replacement for /sbin/init, and Monit is a great little monitoring service that lets you do intelligent things when errors occur and servers fall over. But for some reason Monit is still installed as a System V init daemon. So I switched it over to use Upstart.
The Dell Inspiron 14z is meant to have 4-5 hours battery life out of the box. Suffice to say that this wasn’t the case when I first put Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) on it. Two hours if I was lucky, more often 90 minutes or less.
With the help of many others on AskUbuntu.com I’ve got it up well beyond 4 hours now though. The detail and a summary of everything I did is here, hopefully this will be useful to others!
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