A project I’ve been working on lately is going to be featured in a Super Bowl commercial this weekend. It’s probably safe to assume that the unauthenticated landing pages will get the most traffic. There is some user generated content on these pages (read: database calls) that we want to display. This is how we […]
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HOWTO: Recover from a bad Upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04
While trying to migrate a server from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 today, something went wrong. Upgrading to gcc-4.4 had unmet dependencies. While, trying to solve those, gcc wanted to be installed on a newer version of the kernel, but 1and1.com doesn’t let you upgrade your kernel and so I was left in 1/2 upgraded state […]
HOWTO: install add-apt-repository on Ubuntu 12.04
Many sources say that installing the ‘python-software-properties’ package would fix it, but I had to install ‘software-properties-common’ apt-get install software-properties-common Done!