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Tag Archive | "ubuntu"

Gentoo Sucks, Ubuntu Doesn’t.

Monday, December 29, 2008

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I used Gentoo for a few years, and at first I loved it. Mainly because of portage, but the only distro I had experience with before Gentoo was Slackware, and I used to install packages and dependencies manually, so you can see why Gentoo would was so appealing to me. When I first began my [...]

Top 5 Linux Apps That’ll Boost Your Productivity

Monday, October 6, 2008

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These are not in any specific order. Also, some might be available on other operating systems. Tomboy This is the best note taking app I’ve ever used. It sits in your taskbar, doesn’t annoy you and doesn’t hog your cpu cycles or memory. When you wanna jot down something, hit a global shortcut, type away, [...]

Has vim/rails.vim been crashing lately? Here’s why.

Saturday, August 2, 2008

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If you are experiencing segmentation faults with vim and rails.vim, it may be due to this bug, which appeared after 1.7.127, but has been resolved in 1.7.147 (patch log). To check if your installation has this bug, type the following (cred goes to Ralph) in vim: :r ~fo<tab> (’fo’ being the start of a username [...]