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My Macbook Pro recently died and I decided to stage a new development desktop using Ubuntu 9.0.4. I've had colleages complain in the past about poor support for ATI graphics cards and was a bit concerned aboout getting the hardware that I had handy work correctly. Well, I suppose I got lucky. I decided...
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I ran into a fun situation yesterday. I downloaded a virtual appliance for the Agilo Trac Plugin (which, if you’re a Trac user and trying to do sprints or iterations with it, you need to get this. It’s free and it rocks.) Turns out this VM is a Debian distribution. (I’m certainly no linux guru, but I...
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I'm setting up an Ubuntu Jaunty install for a friend and trying to get it nice and usable. I'll be messing more with Linux in the near future I think. Anyway, I ran across a couple of things that really bugged me and that took me a *while* to fix, so I thought I'd share/document for next...
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UPDATE: I'm very eager to see where IronRuby and RSpec go for the .NET world. Testing my C# Applications with RSpec would be awesome. Check out the MSDN magazine article about this stuff if you haven't already. I'm working with a Ruby on Rails project now (RoR from now on) and absolutely...
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If you are Linux newbie or are still unsure about how to setup your Linux box/slice/server, take a serious look at the Slicehost Articles . Other articles include setup of Apache, Nginx, Postfix, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Capistrano, SSH, Self-signed certificates, Django, etc. For all the Only Windows guys...
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UPDATE: CruiseControl.rb does have Git support from git://github.com/benburkert/cruisecontrolrb.git. Thank you Jeremy for the heads' up (comment below) CI == Continous Integration I personally enjoy watching a team hear the Mortal Kombat voice yell "Fatality" when a build fails and see...
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I've been using a MacBook Pro for about three months now. Absolutely amazing. No issues. I use QuickSilver with a ctrl+space keystroke to bring it up. If anyone has use Windows+R or Mac's spotlight, this is equivalent with a little bit more indexing power (IMO). Well I'm doing some development...
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If you don't currently read xkcd.com , you should be. It has some mushy lovey dovey junk in it sometimes, but the python references and open source references are hilarious. Today's comic: (mouse over for the Ubuntu reference) One of my other favs:
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UPDATE : Make sure your user account is a member of the vboxusers account. VirtualBox will not start and the error will tell you this, but just want to be explicit. You will have to logout and log back in. I recently upgraded my Ubuntu to the latest version, as mentioned in a previous post. I'm very...
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UPDATE : Do not upgrade your virtual box install. Stay with the Gutsy version if you already have it. If you are just installing Hardy Heron from scratch, I will have a post in a little bit and link to it here about how to ensure you get the correct version. In a previous post , I shared the pain of...
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Download here . Feature List and a little more detail here I'm currently on Gutsy Gibbon (7.10), the previous version. I'm upgrading after I post this. I'll update this post afterwards. Also, for all you hesitant Linux users out there, on this version of distribution you can get the iso,...
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Update : I jumped the gun and I thought I'd never have to say this about Linux, but you may have to reboot after the install. I lost all title bars on all windows after the install. After reboot, they came back. Glad I didn't have to go down that rabbit hole. Get the new Adobe Air (Alpha) download...
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If you are a Linux fan (or you already know of Ubuntu), the downloads for 7.10 became available today. Check out my previous post on the new features.
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Finally. Yeah, it got delayed, not because of any huge issues, but because of various bugfixes trickling in and causing me to reset my 'release clock' all the time. But it's out there now, and hopefully better for the wait, " Linus Torvalds said announcing the 2.6.23 kernel . He noted...
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Ubuntu 7.10 released yesterday. Go here to download and help Canonical with beta testing. I am downloading it at home and will load one of my "mutt" PCs tonight and start using it. Instructions on how to insert bugs into the tracking system is at the bottom of this page. There is also instructions...