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Avoiding Errors When Setting Up Webistrano

Assuming you already have Ruby, RubyGems and MySQL  installed on your system, along with the necessary development files and tools for compiling, this may help you avoid a lot of confusing errors when you are trying to set up Webistrano.

I got stuck at the part – rake db:migrate. One error would come out after another, it was overwhelming for first timers like me.

2012 – A New Year

Let us make it a happy and great one .. .

May more bugs be squashed. More innovations made (or copies made better). Prettier designs. Lastly, may Linux and Ubuntu have more new years to come.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Wireless Mouse For Your Ubuntu

This is going to sound like a paid review but it is not. In case you are in the market for a wireless mouse and you can’t decide which one to get, or you’re wondering if it will work for your Ubuntu-powered computer, well, this I can suggest – Logitech Wireless Mouse M325.

Originally I wanted this particular Logitech mouse, but sadly it is not available where I’m at.

Save The Internet!

SIGN UP NOW! Help spread the word.

As of this writing there are close to 1M (984k++) people who have signed up for the petition.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/

Right now, the US Congress is debating a law that would give them the power to censor the world’s Internet — creating a blacklist that could target YouTube, WikiLeaks and even groups like Avaaz!

Should You Know Steve Jobs?

(This is not an anti-Apple or anti-Steve Jobs post. Read further to know what it is about.)

On the day Steve Jobs passed away, the whole Internet was flooded with sentiments of his untimely demise. Everyone who has a Google+ account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, or simply read news/blogs on the Internet knows about this.

Novell Moonlight Is In A Lunar Eclipse

It is not often that I stumble upon a website that uses Microsoft Silverlight. I am sure there are thousands of websites that use this technology. I am aware that Netflix uses Silverlight heavily. Still, I think it is safe to say, that Silverlight is not as commonly used as Adobe Flash. So what happens when I actually find my browser at a site that uses it?

Nothing happens. That is for sure.

When LibreOffice Causes Ubuntu To Lock Up

This is a known bug. One that has been mentioned several times on the Ubuntu and Linux Mint forums as far back as July this year, and maybe even earlier. Honestly I don’t remember this happening on my old desktop computer – Intel Core 2 CPU with a 250GT NVIDIA graphics card. Lately, I’ve been having these lock ups one too many times since I purchased my notebook barely a month ago – Intel i5 2410 with dual GPU (Intel HD Graphics and Radeon 6470M). On both desktop and notebook, I have Ubuntu 11.04 installed with the main difference being, aside from the hardware, that the notebook sports the 64-bit version to fully utilize the 8GB memory.

DotA 2 Coming Soon To PC and Mac

No that is not some cheap play on words to get you to read this post. It is not a typographical error too. The title says what it says. DotA 2 is really coming out.

And you thought Heroes of Newerth (HoN) is the [unofficial] sequel to the very popular Warcraft 3 mod – Defense of the Ancients (DotA). So did I.. . until I saw this video.

Watch and enjoy the awesome trailer below!

Can’t Raid On Ubuntu Without Vent? Mangler It!

Did you ever get to raid in World of Warcraft (WOW) using Ubuntu? I didn’t. Sure it runs fine with WINE – hey that rhymes! – but among the few things that was keeping me was Ventrilo. I’ve played WOW one too many times using Ubuntu. All of it were doing dailies, selling/buying items at the auction house, and running 5-man dungeons. I don’t consider the latter raiding. So I always had to reboot to Windows.

Not So Obvious Firefox How To’s

Although I regularly “clean up” my Firefox’s forms/search history, browsing/download history, cache, cookies and all that at work for privacy reasons, I tend to be more lenient when it comes to my home PC. However, you can never be too overconfident that you are totally safe from everything. There is a wealth of personal information that can be taken from your Firefox history and these are not protected by encryption or other secure means. It is always a good idea to clear a few things you do not want lying around.