Carlos Roque

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  • December 9, 2020

    Assets precompile without a database in Rails 4 and 5

    The other day I had a request from my IT guy. He asked: “Hey, can you make rails not connect…

  • July 2, 2018

    Kubuntu made me love linux on my surface again

    I have been using Ubuntu Gnome for a long time. Then ubuntu decided to ditch unity for Gnome, at first…

  • November 2, 2017

    Special Character Macros in DP2

    Due to encoding limitation in DP2, sometimes it is better to replace some common special characters by their macro equivalent.…

  • November 17, 2016

    College pranks. A clear example of why you shouldn’t marginalize knowledge

    A friend on mine tells the next story from his college days. Apart from being hilarious, I think it is…

  • April 27, 2016

    Surface Pro 3 no longer needs custom linux kernel

    Good news! As of Ubuntu 16.04 and linux kernel 4.5, there is no need to create a custom kernel for…

  • April 14, 2016

    Calculate the Size of Base64.strict_encode64 in Ruby

    I was in need to calculate the size of the output of Base64.strict_encode64. I wanted to get this value to…

  • April 7, 2016

    Build Linux Kernel 4.2.0 for Surface Pro 3

    Ubuntu got updated to 15.10 and along came an updated kernel My previous post will not work with the provided…

  • December 3, 2015

    Invoking a Rake Multitask in a loop

    I am running selenium tests that I launch using a rake task. Recently I wanted to run a bunch on…

  • May 20, 2015

    Building and installing a patched ubuntu kernel for the surface pro 3

    Some of you have been asking for this tutorial so I hope this is easy to follow. I am sort…

  • April 25, 2015

    Dual boot Gnome Ubuntu 15.04 on a Surface Pro 3

    update 6: I have rolled a new kernel surface-pro-3-linux-kernel-4.2.0-34.40 Good news everyone! the latest version of Ubuntu 15.04 works really…

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