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HOWTO: install Ruby on Rails on Debian or Ubuntu Linux easily

October 29, 2008 – 5:07 pm

In the early days of this blog I used to run it on Typo, which *was* a great Ruby on Rails blogging platform (at one time).  Unfortunately the project stalled (for years) and I ended up jumping ship after a few months of bugs and the ever crashing Rails server, WEBrick.  Yes, if you search Netcraft you could see that was my *exposed* server at the time…not good! ;)   Now if you look, Typo is still kicking, and it *may* be a solid platform now, I hope it is, as I even contributed a ton of the achieved themes that live on in the ‘Theme Garden’ there.  But on I moved into the world of MySQL/PHP front end sites via great apps like Drupal and WordPress, fast forward, Ruby on Rails is a mature platform now, and I am evaluating webapps at work, so I needed to install Rails on Debian GNU/Linux (but of course these directions would work just as well in Ubuntu Linux.  It’s amazing simple, I took some steps from the Ruby on Rails wiki, first install the dependencies for good measure:

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HOWTO: sound after hibernate in Linux (Gusty/Lenny)

February 25, 2008 – 11:51 am

Ignignokt says - Using a key to gouge expletives on another’s vehicle is a sign of trust and friendshipWith all the tweaking to get my Dell Vostro 1500 working with Ubuntu, it’s still been an annoyance to get sound working evertime after hibernation. It goes to sleep fine, it wakes up fine, it obeys all of the power preferences I defined within Gnome fine too, it’s just that when it comes out of hibernation, the sound is usually off. It’s not muted, it’s off. Trying to restart alsa (the sound server) is a lession in frustration, so until now I’ve been ignoring it since it was rare that I would need it, but still…come on. This week I came across a solution in the Debian Forums that creates a new task for Linux to do before it shuts down and before it starts up.: “Create the file /etc/pm/sleep.d/49sound…

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