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Tag: Ubuntu

Easter Egg in Aptitude on ubuntu

very silly but still funny, thought i would post it for all the uber geeks out there. rp@devbox:~$ sudo aptitude moo There are no Easter Eggs in this program. rp@devbox:~$ sudo aptitude -v moo There really are no Easter Eggs in this program. rp@devbox:~$ sudo aptitude -vv moo Didn’t I already tell you that there [...]

Changing default JRE for ubuntu installations

I am currently playing a lot with hudson at work, and after relative success (more posts about it coming soon) I thought I shall set it up for my virtual environments as well to push more of my projects on CI as well. However my hudson install failed for a very bizarre reason. The default [...]

svn: This client is too old to work with working copy ‘.’; please get a newer Subversion client

How about this, you wake up in the morning and decided to resume development (I know this sounds sad considering today is 31st of Dec), you type svn update and you get the error: $ svn update svn: This client is too old to work with working copy ‘.’; please get a newer Subversion client [...]

Truetype and Mac Fonts on Ubuntu

If you are anything like me and find it hard to give your love to tinker with your font settings on ubuntu, try this: This will surely make you love your ubuntu desktop even more. Open up a terminal window and type the following commands: # wget http://ubuntu-debs.googlecode.com/files/macfonts.tar.gz # tar zxvf macfonts.tar.gz # sudo mv [...]