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postgres gem on ubuntu

Ubuntu put their postgresql client bits where gems can’t see them. Google turned up the answer in the past, but today I had to figure it out myself. So for the next time, here’s how to get the client bits needed for a gem build. planb $ sudo apt-get install postgresql-client-8.2 libpq-dev planb $ sudo [...]

totem the have-a-go hero

I’m on Ubuntu for most stuff (though I escaped from GNOME a while back). Here’s a question: Why does totem think it can play any content at all? Whenever I go to a webpage with quicktime/real/anything video, it pops up “Totem could not play ‘fd://0’”. Totem, we know. As we’ve established, you are fucking useless. [...]