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Google Apps – html verify takes a long time
I recently signed up the netinlet.com domain and a friends work domain for the Google Apps You have to verify ownership of the domain to get the ball rolling. They allow you to either upload a unique html page to the domain or add a cname entry which points to google.com. I chose the former [...]
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The Dead Mac and the Improved Google Reader
Well, my iMac G5 died Friday morning. The power shut off while checking email and it just looses power when trying to boot again. After talking to Apple support Friday night… prognosis: bad power supply. This is the second time the Mac died in less than a year. Last time it was right before Christmas. [...]
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Reinstall Solaris 10 on a T2000
My biggest gripe with the T2000 so far is actually with Solaris package management. pkgadd sucks because it does not handle dependencies and will not automagically download stuff from Sun. I really which they had something like the FreeBSD ports collection or apt-get or yum or something which automatically downloaded and install dependencies. The T2000 [...]
4-Sale – 1999 Suzuki Intruder
Well, I’ve decided to sell my motorcycle. I will not stop riding though. I like it too much! The Suzuki Intruder was a great first bike. It runs great and is pretty much indestructible. The main reason I am selling it because it is uncomfortable on longer rides (1 hour commute to and from work). [...]
the T2000 has arrived
The T2000 has arrived! I can’t wait to see what this thing will do with ruby and postgresql. This one has 6 cores and 8 gig of ram. I will more than likely have to send it back at the end of the 60 day trial, but i’m very excited to get to use it [...]
synergy – the kvm switch replacement
At work, I regularly use two computers, my primary development box (linux) and my other development box for the windows specific piece of the program I am working on. I have one keyboard and mouse two monitors. I tried using a KVM switch, but that sucked because every time I would switch from linux to [...]
mocking up your website
It just so happened that I started mocking up the UI for the project that I am working on today and stumbled across Denim This looks really cool. It’s definitely a unique piece of software. I was starting to get frustrated to already with the limitations of not having a big enough piece of paper [...]
ruby 1.8.4 on FreeBSD core dumps
I spent the better part of the last couple of days trying to track down why after upgrading to Ruby 1.8.4 on FreeBSD, I started getting core dumps in one particular place in my application. After much time on IRC and some gdb voodoo I finally figured out the source of the problem. There appeared [...]
quick script for adding new svn files to repository
svn status | grep ? | awk ‘{print $2}’ | xargs svn add This is on a FreeBSD box. I have noticed xargs on linux is slightly different – on linux try changing the xargs line to codeprexargs -i -t svn add {}/pre/code
updated rails from .13.1 to .14.3
The update went very smooth with this guide All my work thus far has been on the database side, mapping incoming xml documents to my model. But there have been some significant performance increases in active record. My unit tests were taking on average 78 seconds on a 3.4 ghz pentium box running FreeBSD 5.3. [...]