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To know whether I needed to updated my lenovo yoga 13 bios without rebooting, the command that worked now on windows is: wmic bios get  manufacturer, smbiosbiosversion which displays: Manufacturer  SMBIOSBIOSVersion LENOVO        66CN55WW

Installing gradle using 'sudo apt-get install gradle' was not working for me (libnative-platform-curses.so: undefined symbol: tgetent) So I decided to install from  http://www.gradle.org/downloads My install path /opt/apps/gradle My Android install path /opt/apps/android-sdk-linux The command to get it ready # once sudo ln -s /opt/apps/gradle/bin/gradle /usr/local/bin/gradle # in my .bashrc export GRADLE_HOME=/opt/apps/gradle export ANDROID_HOME=/opt/apps/android-sdk-linux/

Often I install stuff that I want to use on the command line that would require modifying the PATH variable. An alternative is to symlink the command wanted to /usr/local/bin (or whatever bin folder already in your path) Example for gradle (install using apt-get was not working on Ubuntu) sudo ln -s /opt/apps/gradle/bin/gradle /usr/local/bin/gradle export GRADLE_HOME=/opt/apps/gradle The command is then accessible in any script that use the hash bang #!/usr/bin/env #!/usr/bin/env gradle

The hostname command was still displaying 'pc14.home' although I did change it in the System Preferences | Sharing panel where it was name 'myimac.local'. Using: sudo hostname myimac only changes it in the current shell The solution I found to change it for good is to use sudo scutil --set HostName "myimac"

Thanks to  http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/fix-wireless-or-wired-network-not.html Find the network driver using the command $ lshw -C network which gives something like: *-network description: Ethernet interface product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0 logical name: eth0 version: 06 serial: 90:2b:34:12:e0:14 size: 100Mbit/s capacity: 1Gbit/s width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl8168e-3_0.0.4 03/27/12 ip=192.168.1.20 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s resources: irq:46 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:f0004000-f00...

Finally I choose to use a css pre-processing tools. Regarding the choice SCSS vs LESS, I chose SCSS after reading some blogs. (dartlang site is using sass, sass can generate map debuggable in chrome). sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1 sudo gem install sass I did not use the watcher but simply modify my build.dart file to process scss file when changed changed.forEach((filename) { if (extension(filename) == ".scss") { Process.run("sass", [ filename, withoutExtension(filename) + ".css" ]); }; });