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Ye Olde Macbook Pro

I’ve had this old 1,1 macbook pro kicking around now for about a year. The thing has been beat up pretty bad. I clocked about a zillion lines of code on the thing, keys fell off, airport wifi thing blew up, dvd dead. I decided to at least replace the keyboard and stick linux on [...]

RVM, ruby 1.9 and TextMate

RVM is a great tool for handling rubies. TextMate is a great editor. TextMate does not like ruby 1.9 however. Issues with some of the C extension on OS/X, namely plist handling. Heres the first fix: $> git clone git://github.com/kballard/osx-plist.git $> cd osx-plist/ext/plist $> ruby extconf.rb && make $> mv /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/osx/plist.bundle /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/osx/plist.bundle.save $> cp plist.bundle [...]

More bgz and apple sauce

Happily bgz (bugz) seems to be working ok for me so far. The problems with it stem mostly from my own undisciplined self. There are two question that I haven’t quite answered yet though. First, how to handle/report time with multiple people in the project, though this is not a big deal really, and second, [...]

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Heavy metal

I have been checking out Mercurial and Bazaar the last while. Since Launchpad is a Bazaar crew (:^) and google code added Mercurial support I figured I better expand my world from SVN and git. My basic use case is to keep a central repo on my mini and then I can push/pull to the [...]

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When in doubt, ubuntu!

Since I picked up the wee netbook a couple of days ago I have been having a lot of fun discovering how far the linux desktop has come in the past few years. I have been running OS/X exclusively for the past, oh, 4 years or so and haven’t really spent a lot of time [...]

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Netbooks !macbooks

I got a bit of an education on netbooks today. It was bound to happen, sooner or later. Apple has really been getting to me lately, getting me down. So I first want to be able to go away without dragging that brick of a MacBook around with me, and even though it’s the latest [...]

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Hello world!

So I guess this is first post for the new domain. Actually, the domain wasn’t that new. I had it over at MediaTemple for a bit but what I didn’t realize when I signed up was they use Plesk for management. Dreamhost has totally spoiled me with their admin console. Plesk was like going back [...]