I’ve finally decided to attempt a real transition to the Mutt email program after years of flirting with the idea and making short, hesitant attempts that amounted to nothing. This time I’m giving it a fair shake as part of an overarching effort to move toward more fully keyboard-driven computer interaction that has involved replacing other components with Vim and Xmonad.

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Ran into a mildly perplexing problem while trying to install the mysql2 gem under Ubuntu 11.04 today. As will sometimes happen when Ruby gems require compilation of native binaries to run on your system, there is an unspoken dependency requirement of certain development libraries….

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There was an innocuous-seeming update to Wine a few days ago, and upon attempting to play the one game I have installed via Wine, Runic Games’ astonishingly awesome dungeon-crawler, Torchlight, I found it suddenly mute. Which is not really how I like to play it. So I was perturbed.

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I was trying to mount a shared folder in an Arch Linux guest OS under VirtualBox and kept receiving the same enigmatic error.

The problem turned out to be, believe it or not, that the shared folder and the mount location had the same name.

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