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Steam fails to load with “unable to load steamui.so” error in Ubuntu 16.10
4 Feb 2017

Steam fails to load with “unable to load steamui.so” error in Ubuntu 16.10

by elecmahm | posted in: Tech | 0

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

gaming, Steam, Ubuntu, Ubuntu16.10
Using Facebook Authentication in Rails Development Environments
21 Aug 2016

Using Facebook Authentication in Rails Development Environments

by elecmahm | posted in: HOWTO | 0

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

Facebook, Omniauth, rails4, ruby on rails, Ubuntu
Making Netflix playable on Ubuntu in Chrome (again)
3 Feb 2015

Making Netflix playable on Ubuntu in Chrome (again)

by Aaron | posted in: HOWTO | 1

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

Chrome, hacks, netflix, Ubuntu, Ubuntu14.10
Setting up a PostgreSQL locally in Ubuntu 14.04+ (Rails friendly!)
20 Dec 2014

Setting up a PostgreSQL locally in Ubuntu 14.04+ (Rails friendly!)

by Aaron | posted in: HOWTO | 0

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

postgresql, ruby on rails, Ubuntu, Ubuntu14.04
Ruby 2.x + Rails 4 in Ubuntu 14.04
15 Sep 2014

Ruby 2.x + Rails 4 in Ubuntu 14.04

by Aaron | posted in: HOWTO | 0

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

rails4, ruby on rails, RVM, Ubuntu, Ubuntu14.04
Creating Custom Launchers in Ubuntu
25 Jun 2014

Creating Custom Launchers in Ubuntu

by Aaron | posted in: HOWTO | 0

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

Ubuntu, Ubuntu14.04
Correcting stuttering/echoing in Wine on Ubuntu
15 Mar 2014

Correcting stuttering/echoing in Wine on Ubuntu

by Aaron | posted in: HOWTO | 0

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

Ubuntu, Ubuntu13.10, wine
Native Ruby 1.9 + Rails 3 in Ubuntu
5 Sep 2012

Native Ruby 1.9 + Rails 3 in Ubuntu

by Aaron | posted in: HOWTO | 2

Install the Ruby 1.9.1 (which is actually 1.9.3, presently) package: aaron@naegleria:~$ sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev 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 … Continued

rails3, ruby on rails, Ubuntu, Ubuntu12.04
Using Virtualbox with an Existing Windows Partition
27 Jan 2010

Using Virtualbox with an Existing Windows Partition

by Aaron | posted in: HOWTO | 232

I am not able to help troubleshoot this anymore, as I have switched over to VMWare Player; However, I am still maintaining this document. If you happen to discover anything about making it work, please post in the comments below … Continued

tutorials, Ubuntu, Ubuntu9.10, VirtualBox
Quake-style terminal window
22 Jan 2010

Quake-style terminal window

by Aaron | posted in: HOWTO | 0

Updated: Aug 28 2012 Long ago (mid-90’s), there was a revolutionary 3-d first-person-shooter game called “Quake”, made by id Software, the same people that made DooM a few years before. Quake had this really cool feature where you could press … Continued

Linux, tutorials, Ubuntu, Ubuntu9.10

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