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Monday, November 13th, 2006So I’ve had this on again, off again thing with ruby for a while now. Since I first started playing with ruby it got pretty big with rails, and I completely missed that boat. Well, now I’m playing with rails and it’s fairly interesting once you get it up and running. I [...]
Udev + wacom on gentoo: dynamic links
Friday, August 25th, 2006I have a wacom drawing pad, and one thing that’s always bothered me was the whole way linux handled usb items- depending on the order they were plugged in, they would be given different names- sometimes my keyboard would be “/dev/input/event1″, sometimes my wacom or mouse.
Udev was made to get around these issues, but I’ve [...]
Pissed off vs. Pissed on
Thursday, August 24th, 2006Today I find myself a little of both.
I was called into the confrence room today and told that the company I was contracted to requested that today be my last day.
Yes, I am officially unemployed.
Fortunately I was laid off, not fired- turns out business wasn’t as good as they were hoping and they [...]
stupid dell raid card..
Thursday, August 17th, 2006so the devs are having a hell of a time with the new dev server- it’s constantly locking up on certain threads for 30-45 seconds. apache mainly, but occasionally grep and other things. It appears to be completely random. I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to find the problem, and I think I got [...]
spring cleaning
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006I have a habit of moving stuff to my website’s root directory and sending temp links to people. I’ve recently went about cleaning it out (which I do about once a year) and found some interesting bits… Here’s a job posting I wrote for a position we were hiring for at a previous employer:
We’re [...]
Gentoo is too powerful
Monday, July 24th, 2006So I learned something new today. Apparently our UPS is rated to 3K, and we just added 3 new machines to it, putting it at 4 out of 5 bars for load.
These three new machines are running gentoo on dual-xeon processors. I made the mistake of attempting to recompile subversion on all three machines at [...]
Intro to Vim Tip #4 (Pasting)
Friday, July 14th, 2006If you need to paste into vim from somewhere else, and your code has tabs or spaces in it, you’ll notice that vim may add extra tabs. see, vim doesn’t see it as a paste event, it sees it as “you typing really fast”- and one thing vim does will is auto-indent. The [...]
More IE Fun
Thursday, July 13th, 2006ran into a problem with mod_rewrite and IE- a real one this time. IE was choking on files that were being downloaded via mod_rewrite. same script worked without rewrite, died with it.
Did some research and with a lot of help from noodl of #apache figured out it was because mod_rewrite adds a “Vary: Host” line [...]
Rage against the IE.
Monday, July 10th, 2006ok, here’s my latest bout of IE stupidity. The new system I’m setting up will have several developers working on several projects. We’d like to be able to use subversion to manage the projects without dealing with pathname stupidity, hence all new projects should have / as their base since they will later become [...]
Intro to Vim Tip #3 (Visual Mode)
Monday, July 10th, 2006Another well used mode is Visual Mode, which turns your cursor into a hilighter.
open a textfile with several lines of text ad move the cursor to the middle
switch from command mode to visual mode:
v
You’ll notice as you move the cursor around, you highlight different sections from the point you started to the point you left. [...]