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Jul/14

Reduce SSD Wear By Moving Firefox Cache To RAM Disk

Filed Under Web Browser, Windows at 7th July 2014 0:01 by

Overview It’s known that SSD have limited amount of read / writes similar to USB memory sticks. Drives usually come over provisioned so there are plenty of spare space to replace the bad sectors but it’s inevitable it will need … Continue reading →

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Jun/14

Vagrant And DigitalOcean On Ubuntu

Filed Under Infrastructure at 30th June 2014 0:01 by

Overview Vagrant is a piece of software which allows (re)creation of virtual environments. By default it supports VirtualBox but other “providers” can also be used such as Amazon Web Services, VMware, etc. Vagrant creates virtual machines with specific resources and … 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

Create RAM Disk In Windows

Filed Under Windows at 9th June 2014 0:01 by

Overview One of the best investments (and performance boast) is to get an SSD drive which will speed up load times by a lot. There is, however an even fast technology which is RAM Disk. What Is RAM Disk? RAM … Continue reading →

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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 →