Typing gem on windows:

PS D:\Users\berend.deboer> gem
The term 'gem' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spellin
g of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:4
+ gem + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (gem:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Same on Ubuntu:

# gem
The program 'gem' can be found in the following packages:
* rubygems1.8
* rubygems1.9.1
Try: apt-get install <selected package>

Really, Windows just feels like an abandoned house, does anyone do any kind of development on this OS? Maybe all using Visual Studio, never leaving it?

Lot of pain to get Skype working properly after I switched from an increasingly complex ipfw firewall to a pf based one. Skype consistently gave me "UDP status: local: BAD". I believe that happens when Skype tries to use peers for udp traffic, instead of talking to the caller directly.

The solution was to use static ports for nat. My default rule in pf.conf was this:

nat on egress from any to any -> (egress) round-robin sticky-address

It is now:

nat on egress from 192.168.1.10 port 12345 to any -> (egress) static-port
nat on egress from any to any -> (egress) round-robin sticky-address

Skype now has UDP status local good, finally sigh.

One of Logitech's best wireless products was their Logitech ClearChat. From an audio quality perspective that it. It's manufacturing quality was disastrous, and the internet is filled with people complaining about issues with their microphone (turning silent, not turning on, turning off when you move year head).

Just very annoying to use when the microphone breaks down.

Got a different product today the Logitech H600 (there don't seem to be many manufacturers of wireless headsets). Didn't work straight out the box with Ubuntu. I.e. it turned up immediately, but there was no sound. This appeared to be a communication problem with the wireless receiver and the headset.

bhankins found a solution that works for me too. Download the pairing utility and that fixes the problems. Unfortunately the pairing utility only works on Windows (or perhaps wine, didn't try that).

Hopefully my microphone problems are now solved. But sound quality is definitely much lower than the ClearChat, but won't matter for Skype/phone calls I'm guessing.

Bad day yesterday. Lot's of fighting with Ubuntu Precise. Upgraded from Oneiric, but X would freeze regularly. Could still ping/ssh in.

I think it was an issue with the application switcher. I wasn't using the Unity one. There were other issues too. As the system was so unstable, I decided not to take any changes with conflicts, so simply wiped my ~/.config and started over (but copied back settings from apps I wanted to keep). Pretty stable now. The only issue is that I'm using the Unity switcher and I don't like the "Show desktop" option, which you can't remove. Unless you recompile the source I suppose.

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