Bashfully yours gemdocs

That is setting up your bash to give you gemdocs with like ... one line. Or that's kicking your ass.

PS: I had to replace open with firefox for it to work with my Ubuntu box. You might find that helpful.

Peace and love,
The Sid Sid man.

If your using the Ruby plugin with Intellij which by the way is way feckin' awesome your should be suffering some performance issues. Intellij eats up about 300 to 400 megs easily and it's really deathly slow. Especially if you try running your tests out of IntelliJ.

Here's something to speed things up a bit. Open up #{idea_directory}/bin/idea.vmoptions and make it look like this:

The first line specifies that idea should load up with 300 megs, this is good because it ensures idea doesn't go "allocate allocate allocate" because it has sufficient memory ot begin with.

The second line specifies max memory. You can up this number. My dell has only one gig hence I keep it at 500 megs.

The UseConcMarkSweep is way cool, because it's an alternate garbage collection algorithm which the JVM uses and is way efficient if your running a dual core.

The server argument to the JVM is good for long running processes because the JVM optimises it that way.

Thanks to Chris Stevenson for this life saver.

Guide to backing up and restoring Ubuntu

Warning: Don't use Ghost, apparently it screws up ext2 and ext3 partitions.

So I'm going to to try this for sure. If any of you have tried this and like it, or hate it. Let me know, I'll add your comments to this post.

"Run to the hills,
Run for your life"
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills

Skype doesn't have a release for 64-bit Ubuntu distributions. I'm running Ubuntu Feisty fawn that's Ubuntu 7.04. The .deb from the Skype for Linux download page doesn't work on a 64-bit architecture.

Here's some documentation on how to work around it.

The fix didn't work for me though :( All I got after installing was a "/usr/sbin/skype doesn't exist"

Okay, I remember I did this post when I was really frustrated with the whole Ubuntu scenario, but I gotta say ... I've really grown to love this OS. And here's why:

1] It takes me exactly half an hour to do a Ubuntu re-install as opposed to a crappy one or two hour windows install. Although reinstalling stuff on Ubuntu involves a lot of downloading, I guess one way around is to download all the packages you need and use an install CD. Will post about that.

2] It's FREE! I mean, I don't have to worry about ripping stuff, and breaking the OS. Btw, that's how I broke my last windows install, WMP 11 was just too tempting.

3] Breaking Ubuntu happens, but not as often and unexpectedly as breaking Windows used to happen. Plus, with Ubuntu mostly everything is transparent so the fixes are about 50% obvious, the times that they're not obvious the forums rule!

4] I agree Ubuntu doesn't look as sophisticated and slick as Windows does, but hey that's part of the charm.

5] Hardware support can be an issue, but hey if you're smart enough to try installing some esoteric device you're smart enough to make it work.

I would suggest switching to anyone who'se using a ripped copy of Windows ... it's a good feeling to know you're not breaking any laws :D

I just realized there's a lot of stuff going on inside my head.

And it needs to come out.

I'm not exactly in the best state of mind.

Nothing works ... hence the super cool posts about Ubuntu.

Hell, nothing even works with Cygwin. It's actually even more awesome.

The worst part is, my fire is gone :( I need to feel it burn man, I need to feel an urge to get up and solve this situation. The urge is there for a solution, trust me, it is, but it's stretching me, I guess I'm just taking this too personally or something, but how can I not?

=)

Enough is not enough. I so can do this man.
In a few words,

"Death to all the empires,
death to lifelong wars,
death to all the bitter sons of the anti christ,
death to the world!"
Kreator - World Anarchy

As long as there is metal, there is always fire, and as long as there is fire, there is always hope.

As long as there is hope, I will jack you up and kill you bulldozer style!