SSH Tunneling
Long ago, in the before time, when I was using Windows I would occasionally tunnel an SSH connection through PuTTY to do VNC / remoting into my work computer. At an AWS workshop I recently learned how to do this … Continued
Steam fails to load with “unable to load steamui.so” error in Ubuntu 16.10
For reasons that are still unclear to me, a random update of Steam suddenly bricked my Steam installation. No Stardew Valley for me that evening! The error that I received when attempting to launch Steam, post-update, was a very cryptic: failed … Continued
Using Facebook Authentication in Rails Development Environments
Say you’re building a Rails application and want to use Facebook with Omniauth via Devise. You’ve already got that working and have your Facebook API key registered and all that. But maybe you want to see how it works and … Continued
Making Netflix playable on Ubuntu in Chrome (again)
So I was watching 30 Rock and Episode 9 had just finished…Episode 10 was about to begin but then I got that dreaded “Your OS is unsupported” error. I contacted support. No help. They said it’s probably from an update on … Continued
Setting up a PostgreSQL locally in Ubuntu 14.04+ (Rails friendly!)
Fresh Ruby on Rails installations will default with support for SQLite3, which is a very fast database solution right out of the box. As you expand your app, though, you will inevitably encounter problems (most often, for me, it’s concurrency … Continued
Ruby 2.x + Rails 4 in Ubuntu 14.04
This a modernized update to a previous post I wrote on here, about doing Ruby 1.9 & Rails 3. There are two ways you can go with Ruby, right now. Canonical is finally starting to get with the program with … Continued
Creating Custom Launchers in Ubuntu
Launchers are the Ubuntu-native way to launch an application by double-clicking on it. You can put them in your Unity dash, on your desktop, link to them, etc. The problem is, since the switch from Gnome to Unity, creating custom … Continued
Correcting stuttering/echoing in Wine on Ubuntu
For the past 6 months or so, my Wine-emulated games were having this really annoying stuttering-echo — it sounded like a latency issue, very crackly, but where the sounds would repeat 2 or 3 times, also crackly. Very annoying. I … Continued
Installing Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3 on a Hostgator/CentOS VPS
Many hosting resellers (sadly, even mine) are behind the times on Rails. If you aren’t a Rails developer, it may not seem like a big deal to not upgrade from Rails2 to Rails3 — but believe you me, it is hugely … Continued
Native Ruby 1.9 + Rails 3 in Ubuntu
Install the Ruby 1.9.1 (which is actually 1.9.3, presently) package:
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You will also need to remove all packages that use Ruby 1.8.x. The easiest way to do this is to just use synaptic, search for “ruby”, sort by “installed” … Continued