August 2008
12 posts
The trickster way to install rails on ubuntu
first you sudo apt-get install rubygems then you do a gem upgrade sudo gem update —system then you uninstall rubygems but if it warns you that it will uninstall ruby1.8 you do an extra install for that sudo apt-get remove rubygems extrastep: sudo apt-get install ruby1.8 then you create a link to gem from gem1.8 cd /usr/bin sudo ln -s gem1.8 gem install the gems as...
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“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she handles...”
– Maya Angelou on understanding character - Boing Boing
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Network Games Research →
Aug 18th
VAST - scalable peer-to-peer (P2P) network for... →
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translations translations...
Best of the day so far.. FUTURAMA: The beast with a million backs became in portuguese Futurama: The beast with a million ASSES Why would translators need to know Shakespear, I ask.
Aug 11th
debian patches explained.. or at least clearer for...
I thought that leaving the patch on the debian/patches and doing a dpkg-buildpackages would apply them and everything would be dandy.. WRONG the patches have to be in the dpatch format.. that means adding this on the top of a diff -u #! /bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run ## 99-patchname.dpatch by you <you@you> ## ## All lines beginning with `## DP:’ are a description of the...
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