Installing Elixir on Ubuntu 13.04
I just installed Elixir and there were one or two non-obvious points. Elixir requires Erlang OTP 16, and the Ubuntu package repos contain release 15. So the Ubuntu Erlang packages…
Don’t Buy Parallels Workstation for Linux
So I have this video project I’m working on. There are many things a Linux workstation is great for, but editing video is not one of them. I’ve tried a…
Emacs Reboot #2: Startup
After compilation completes it’s time to give the new Emacs a shot: $ src/emacs It starts up successfully, and makes a valiant attempt to load my existing Emacs configuration. I…
Leave it to java
After what felt like thousands of years of font purgatory, fonts have more or less been completely ironed out in modern Linux desktop systems. But that’s not going to stop…
Daemonic Emacs
Emacs is many things, but lightweight is not one of them. You don’t want to be starting a new Emacs process every time you edit a file, especially if you…
Ubuntu, Emacs, and Fonts
Ubuntu is a wonderful development environment in many ways, but let’s not beat around the bush: fonts in Linux have always been a disaster. It’s not as bad is it…
The Trifecta of FAIL; or, how to patch Rails 2.0 for Ruby 1.8.7
It’s an oft-stated fact that most disasters result not from a single point of failure but from a combination of failures reinforcing each other. I wouldn’t term the problem I…