How to get Steam running on Ubuntu 15.04 Linux.

I had problems getting Steam to run on Ubuntu 15.04, I would get this error. jason@darkstar:~$ steam Running Steam on ubuntu 15.04 64-bit STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically [2016-01-05 11:03:24] Startup – updater built Dec 14 2015 11:15:53 SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)jason@darkstar:~$ … Read more

How I fixed the Java out of memory issue on an Amazon AWS instance.

I was trying to get openmeetings working on an Amazon AWS instance today and I kept getting Java out of memory errors. I fixed this with this simple solution I found: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18078859/java-run-out-of-memory-issue. This fixed my problem and allowed the java application to start with a limited amount of memory. Try this out if you have … Read more

Fixing the failed checksum from server error on FreeBSD 10 with the command line.

The failed checksum from server error is very annoying on FreeBSD 10. I fixed this by using the following command. pkg update -fpkg update -f This updated the package repositories information for FreeBSD 10 and allowed me to install the packages I required. This is a good command to run from time to time that … Read more