In playing with migrating to Emacs from TextMate one of the things I missed was the Ack plugin for textmate.

After searching for a mode for Emacs that would give me the same power, I found a couple simple Ack modes that worked with varying success.

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If you’re using Rackspace Servers to create Ubuntu VPSs then you may be experiencing problems starting services.

I spent a day and a half trying to figure out why PostgreSQL wasn’t starting on my fresh Ubuntu 9.10 server (so fresh that “aptitude install postgresql-8.4” was the first command I ran).

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