Category Archives: Linux

Rails and MySQL on Ubuntu 10.10

Learning Ruby on Rails with MySQL on a Ubuntu machine is quick and easy with sqlite3 – the default for a Rails project. On a production project though you will probably need a database with a little bit more muscle. … Continue reading

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Installing Rails 3 on Ubuntu 10.10

Installing Ruby on Rails using Ubuntu’s native package manager certainly has its advantages — namely keeping the packages up to date for you — but currently, this will get you older versions of Ruby and Rails.  Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails … Continue reading

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Debian 6 Audio Problems

I love Debian and prefer to use it over Ubuntu, but one of the main things that keeps driving me back to Ubuntu is audio problems in Debian. Or… at least I’ve always assumed it’s a Debian problem.  You start … Continue reading

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Disable Pidgin Notifications in Ubuntu 9.04

I love the new libnotify notifications in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope, but don’t really want my IM messages popping up on the top right of the screen — especially at work. So how do you get Pidgin to just quietly blink … Continue reading

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Ubuntu — Upgrade Pidgin to fix Yahoo!

I’m not a huge fan of Yahoo! IM, but I do have clients and co-workers that use it so I really need it to work in Pidgin. A recent protocol upgrade at Yahoo! broke Pidgin 2.5.5. I found several ‘fixes’ … Continue reading

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