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Ubuntu comes with keyboard layouts like "Germany Eliminate Dead Keys", which are practical for programming. If you need to type...
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VirtualBox does not offer anything for this task -- you need to do it yourself. It's not that hard:
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When some of your Google contacts are no longer synchronized with your e-mail client or mobile phone, those contacts...
Sometimes, when running a rake task, RubyGems 1.8.5 raises an error: rake aborted! undefined method `specifications' for "/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8":String
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Yesterday, there was a blog post entitled “What the Hell is Happening to Rails” that stayed at the number one...
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geordi, our collection of awesome shell scripts, has been extended by three scripts to help you call RSpec or Cucumber...
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