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Aug/14

Share .bashrc

Filed Under Linux at 18th August 2014 0:01 by

Suggested by Dave Bradford, it turns out you can share .bashrc files between computers and use symbolic link. Rename the file: mv ~/.bashrc ~/bashrc.bak Dropbox example: ln -s ~/Dropbox/.bashrc ~/.bashrc where the .bashrc is stored in the root Dropbox folder. … Continue reading →

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Aug/14

Manually Installing Sublime Text 2 On Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux, Software at 4th August 2014 0:01 by

Overview Sublime is one of the best of the text editor I have used. One of the best things about it is that it’s cross platform but it doesn’t include an installer for Linux. Install Download a copy of the … Continue reading →

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Jun/14

Install Node / NPM On Ubuntu 14.04

Filed Under Linux at 23rd June 2014 0:01 by

Overview Node is fairly new and is constantly improving. With Ubuntu LTS, the repository versions tend to stay the same version and only changing for patches. This doesn’t help with fast changing software like node.js so a manual install gets … Continue reading →

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Jun/14

Install Latest Ruby On Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux, Ruby at 16th June 2014 0:01 by
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Go to https://gorails.com/ and go to the setup section. The site has step by step to install a Ruby environment.

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Jun/14

Github Permission Denied

Filed Under Linux, SCM at 2nd June 2014 0:01 by

I was trying to push to Github and got the following error: debug1: No more authentication methods to try. Permission denied (publickey). In the above case make sure a new SSH key exists by checking there are files in ~/.ssh … Continue reading →

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May/14

Ubuntu System Load Applet

Filed Under Linux, Software at 26th May 2014 0:01 by

Overview I like to have a constant view of my resources (especially on a limited machines such as laptops) so i can see what the slow is possibly caused by. Thats where multiload comes in. Install sudo apt-get install indicator-multiload … Continue reading →

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May/14

KeePass On Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux, Software at 19th May 2014 0:01 by

Overview I use KeePass as my password manager which works very well on Windows. Running it on Linux is not as easy but it has gotten better over the years for example in 14.04. Integrating it into browsers on the … Continue reading →

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May/14

Samsung Series 9 Ultrabook Running Ubuntu 14.04

Filed Under Laptop, Linux at 12th May 2014 0:01 by

Overview Like most problems with Linux based operating systems it lags behind on support of new hardware and with Ubuntu’s LTS releases being 2 years apart it can become a real hack to get support and drivers if new hardware … Continue reading →