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awesomebytes / alienware15r3_install_ubuntu14.04.05.md
Created December 8, 2016 09:37
Install Ubuntu 14.04 on Alienware 15 R3 instructions

How to install Ubuntu 14.04.05 on Alienware 15 R3

Tiny guide to install Ubuntu 14.04.05 on a brand new Alienware 15 R3.

Let windows 10 install

Just next, next, next filling up your data.

You should get a BIOS update alert from the Alienware Update widget. If not, right click on the Down arrow icon in the bottom right extra icons ^ thing and right click, then click Check for Updates.

A small sampling of external projects initially built for Ember use but designed to be used standalone:

@rogercampos
rogercampos / clockwork.rb
Created September 6, 2012 21:56
Capistrano running clockwork as daemon
after "deploy:stop", "clockwork:stop"
after "deploy:start", "clockwork:start"
after "deploy:restart", "clockwork:restart"
namespace :clockwork do
desc "Stop clockwork"
task :stop, :roles => clockwork_roles, :on_error => :continue, :on_no_matching_servers => :continue do
run "if [ -d #{current_path} ] && [ -f #{pid_file} ]; then cd #{current_path} && kill -INT `cat #{pid
_file}` ; fi"
end
@rpavlik
rpavlik / fix_homebrew.rb
Created January 6, 2011 20:32 — forked from mxcl/install_homebrew.markdown
Fix permissions on /usr/local for Homebrew
#!/usr/bin/ruby
#
# This script fixes /usr/local only.
#
# 6th January 2010:
# Modified the script to just fix, rather than install. - rpavlik
#
# 30th March 2010:
# Added a check to make sure user is in the staff group. This was a problem
# for me, and I think it was due to me migrating my account over several