linux WTF! protocol version mismatch - is your shell clean? I was running rsync through ssh and it was failing with the lovely message protocol version mismatch - is your shell clean? A little digging on the man page I found this gem under the Diagnostics section: rsync occasionally produces error messages that may
System Admin Configuring a static IP address in Ubuntu To configure a static IP address in Ubuntu from the command line, you will need to edit /etc/network/interfaces sudo vim /etc/network/interfaces iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.2.156 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.2.1
System Admin Install node.js from binaries Here's a quick rundown of how I install node.js in my development environments, which is currently Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. You can get previous versions of node.js from here: http://nodejs.org/dist/ wget the desired binaries to the directory of