When you download or upgrade RVM it has a hardcoded notion which patch level it considers to be "1.9.3".

html5rocks.com

Some progress was made by browsers on implementing CSS filters like blur, greyscale or some other effects. You might already...

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github.com

geordi delete_dumps [directory] Recursively search for files ending in *.dump and offer to delete those. When no...

The httpclient gem comes with a custom SSL cert store. While an customizable, application-level cert store is great when...

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serverfault.com

Logging tcpdump output all the time can create a huge amount of data. This can be both: too much data...

bbs.archlinux.org

xterm by default uses black text on white background. To change that to something like "light gray on black", do...

The box shadows created rendered in IE by CSS3PIE look darker and are blurred differently than in browsers that render...

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The very useful andand gem does not play very nice with Ruby's SimpleDelegator (or vice versa). This following will...

.../boot partition, there might be an easier fix: It is possible to configure a better compression algorithm for the images in /boot. To do this, edit /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf and change the...

To improve installation times of gems you can use the following approach: gem install xyz --no-document To permanently ignore...

When doing Basic Authentication, your browser will send an "Authorization" header. Its value is simply a Base64-encoded representation of...

yoyo.io

Fontawesome 4 has introduced new naming conventions that make it easy to retrieve variants of a given icon.

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stackoverflow.com

...by adding certain properties. In Chrome, the combination of the following properties has the best effect. box-shadow: 0 0 0 #000 transform: translate3d(0,0,0) # remember to add...

Consider you have a file that uses improper encoding on special characters. Example: You see the latin1 version "ñ" for...

When you create a new branch and push it to origin, you won't be tracking it. This means a...

Reading user input in console applications is usually done using Kernel#gets. Stubbing that can be a bit hairy.

...you have a new version of Mocha and an old version of Rails. The best solution is to update Mocha to the latest version and switch to Rails edge.

ubuntuforums.org

Keyboard layout reverting to US on (every) reboot Cause: I found the same problem, but only on my wife...

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Every time you open a directory containing images, Windows creates those pesky Thumbs.db files for a minor speed-up and...

Are you adding a "Then show me the page" and re-run Cucumber whenever there is a failing scenario? Don...

Check if you have puppetsync enabled on the master and client [main] logdir=/var/log/puppet vardir=/var/lib/puppet ssldir=/var/lib/puppet/ssl rundir=/var/run/puppet...

I had trouble serving an MP4 video to my iPad. Although the video complied with all the specs (H.264 codec...

github.com

The asset pipeline (which is actually backed by sprockets) has a nice feature where templates ending in .jst are compiled...

When using an odd value for line-height in CSS the result will vary across all major browsers.\