Critical error on Couchapp push with Ubuntu

I am hoping that in posting this, someone is able to save a little time and frustration. On my Ubuntu 10.10 machine with CouchDB 1.0.1 installed, I began experiencing the following error every time I attempted to ‘couchapp push’ my couchapp changes: [CRITICAL] Expecting object: line 2 column 3 (char 4) After a bit of… Continue reading Critical error on Couchapp push with Ubuntu

nVidia Drivers with Compositing on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Ok.  I will admit it.  I love compositing (Compiz) in Linux.  I absolutely adore it.  Clearly, this can be a bit of a problem as compositing on NVidia cards (more specifically using the Linux proprietary drivers) in Linux can be a bit of a challenge (understatement) at times. Post-Lucid-upgrade has proven to be one of… Continue reading nVidia Drivers with Compositing on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Upgrade – 1000HE EeePC

So… I decided to bite the bullet and forge forward with the dist upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 last night… Ok, so let’s be honest – I let curiosity take control once again, allowing my cautious mind to be overridden: allowing the entry of ‘sudo update-manager -d’ in the terminal… This was about 11PM last… Continue reading Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Upgrade – 1000HE EeePC

Google’s Newest Toy – Installing Go in Ubuntu 9.10

Setting up Google Go in Ubuntu 9.10 Google Go Go is Google’s newest offering to the development community.  According to the project’s page, Go is an expressive, concurrent, garbage collected programming language that is simple, fast, safe, concurrent, fun and (best of all) open source. Touted as a cross between C/C++ and Python, Go seems… Continue reading Google’s Newest Toy – Installing Go in Ubuntu 9.10