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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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