Fixing problems caused by using an old version of RubyGems (1.7.2)

I recently had to install an old version of RubyGems (v1.7.2 to work around an incompatibility with a Rails 2.3.x app I’m working with. This caused Capistrano to freak the older RubyGems version out with this error: Invalid gemspec in [/Users/myusername/.rvm/gems/ree-1.8.7-2012.01@mygemset/specifications/capistrano-2.11.2.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: “2012-02-22 00:00:00.000000000Z” This broke RubyGems so bad that every […]

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Switching between Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server

It’s easy enough to start out with an Ubuntu Server machine and install the desktop packages, leaving you with an Ubuntu Desktop machine. Just run: sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop …and you’re done. Unfortunately, going the other way isn’t so easy. Just removing the ubuntu-desktop package doesn’t remove all the other packages for me, I had […]

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