Author Archives: José María Ruiz

Ubuntu doesn’t like PostgreSQL 9.2 because it breaks other packages (see explanation in stackoverflow). We need to use PostgreSQL own apt repository: prompt$ sudo sh -c  “echo ‘deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ squeeze-pgdg main’ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list” prompt$ wget –quiet -O – http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ACCC4CF8.asc | … Continue reading →

And the solution is simple: $ sudo date -s “`date`” Many people were drive crazy by this bug in Linux. For more information visit: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/02/leap_second_crashes_airlines/

Just apply the fix that appears in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2121631&highlight=ping-wu I’ve gotten the same problem. What I did to work around this problem: Copypasta the next few lines and save. Code: #!/bin/sh case “$1” in thaw|resume) echo 500 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness ;; *) ;; … Continue reading →

If you find out references to the package python-software-properties everywhere, they are wrong. For some reason the Ubuntu team decided to move add-apt-repository to a different package, and you need to install it explicitly. Just install: sudo apt-get install software-properties-common  

Interesting article by Nassim Taleb (of “Black Swan” fame) about his new theory: Antifragility. Many of the last essays of Paul Graham have a similar tone and talk about the same principles. His seven rules are: Convexity is easier to attain … Continue reading →

(Translation of the Paul Graham’s Essay «The Top of My TODO List») Abril 2012 Bronnie Ware, una enfermera de cuidados paliativos, hizo una lista de las errores de los que más se arrepentía la gente que iba a morir. Su lista … Continue reading →