Today I got to play with David’s Samsung N130 running Ubuntu 10.10.

It’s nice. It’s no slower for doing the day to day things I need to do than the laptop I use at work (although that’s not saying much).

I think my mind is made up now… I’ll see if I can find a nice refurbished netbook.

Liferea stores a lot of information in an sqlite database. If sqlite databases aren’t vacuumed every now and then, they bloat and slow down.

Most people know about speeding up Firefox by vacuuming the sqlite databases every now and then. Well, the same can be done with Liferea.
Close Liferea and paste the following in a bash terminal.

sqlite3 ~/.liferea_1.4/liferea.db "VACUUM;"

Open up Liferea and you should notice it load much faster. Unless of course, it was fast to begin with.

This one is the <audio> in firefox 3.1 beta 2 not working under linux. Video works though :(

Should mention that this is fixed in the nightly beta builds for 3.1 3.5. I’m using the <audio> in these posts though http://ten.ynottony.net/category/music/.

To fix it, edit your ~/.bashrc file.
gedit ~/.bashrc

Add these lines to the bottom of the file.
#Export the path for Ruby Gems
export PATH=$PATH:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin

Save it and then source the file (to save you from logging-out and back in again).
source ~/.bashrc

Then you should be able to run capistrano as you would expect.

Please note: There are potential problems with this as Ruby Gems can install system libraries in this path that end up being used instead of the correct system ones.  This can potentially cause problems.  See Launchpad bug #262063 for a discussion of the issue.