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Rhythmbox

on in Linux

I fired up rhythmbox today to play my music. I pointed rhythmbox to my ~/Music directory and it index 10% of my songs. Huh? WTF!?

Apparently not all required codecs are installed eh? I didn’t want to search through documentation and what not, to find...

How to install acroread on ubuntu Hardy Herron

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echo "deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get...

What's all this git stuff anyway?

on in Development, Ruby

I’m reading a lot about git lately. Supposedly it’s the next greatest revision control software. It’s faster, better and doesn’t take the enormous amount of space subversion does. Maybe I’ll try it anytime soon but I don’t see any obvious advantages...

New blog!

on in Other

I removed my old blog and created this brand new one! Hopefully I’m going to post a little more here. Maybe some more on Rails. And I’m planning to pick up bass guitar playing again! So maybe some new bass tabs in the near future!

ssh-agent and a server

on in Linux

My backupserver runs linux on it. When it’s backup-time it looks through some bunch of config files and logs in to the appropriate servers. The server does this with some ssh-keys ofcourse. But… then it broke… ssh-agent would not run anymore (automatically...

Gutsy, apache2 and auth_pam

on in Linux

In installed libapache2-mod-auth-pam and enabled it:

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#Requires mod_auth_pam
<IfModule mod_auth_pam.c>
    AuthPAM_Enabled on
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Subversion...

Making cron-apt work

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touch /etc/cron-apt/actions.d/4-install
nano -w  /etc/cron-apt/actions.d/4-install

Add this to the file:

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dist...