Lately, whenever I’m feeling bored and I don’t feel like programming or watching tv or anything (well, I can’t actually. Because my tv is not connected at the moment) I browse to the new Ubuntu brainstorm website. There are a lot good ideas for Ubuntu...

I always installed the flash plugin by hand, unrar all the codecs et cetera. But on the forum I found someone who recommended the package “ ubuntu-restricted-extras”. Did an apt-get install and I worked great! Installed all the stuff I needed:

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As a “professional” webdesigner I know how much testing sucks and how it, at the same time, is one of the most important things to do (besides coding the stuff). That’s why I appreciate Rails' very complete testsuite so much. And now with Rspec user...

I used this resource:

http://rorblog.techcfl.com/2008/02/19/create-and-deploy-a-jruby-app-to-the-glassfish-gem-in-10-minutes-or-less-on-mac-os-x/

How to install jruby on Ubuntu:

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 Ubuntu changed the defaut editor to ViM? At least: my Hardy Heron installation suddenly changed editor. This is the command you can use to determine which editor you want to use by default:

sudo update-alternatives –config editor

In my previous blog item I asked the question: where am I going to host my (git) project? John Nunemaker mentioned github for hosting git projects. Maybe I’m gonna look at that when I’m done with my house.

A.k.a. “installing something that would take ages in another OS”

For a client of ours I’m doing a project. But I had to wait at my new house today for my new tiles. And at my new address I don’t have internet yet. So I made a local copy of the project...

I thought about doing:

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sudo apt-get install non-free-codecs gstreamer0.10-pitfdll w32codecs

Nothing!

Maybe:

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This was a ha(n/r)dy guide:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=51486

So because I am always losing with UT and keep blaming it on the poor performance of my laptop I was forced to optimise UT. After fiddling with new engines, I discovered that...

I used the following resources to accomplish this:

• http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html
• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=208426

First add an additional deb source for feisty packages. I did it like this: