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{ Monthly Archives } October 2006

If normal biff needs some more shinyness to it..

cdbiff execute `eject’ command to eject a CD-ROM tray when mail arrives.

2006 10 27 tagme Comments Off on If normal biff needs some more shinyness to it..

Fixing ‘mkmf’ load error Ruby in Ubuntu

If you’re a Debian or Ubuntu user you’ll find that the Ruby standard distribution is split into lots of little packages so doing something like apt-get install ruby only gives you the ruby binary and a subset of the libraries for Ruby. You’ll need to add more packages if you want to utilize more of […]

2006 10 27 hoanga linux
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The Pied Piper of Architects (aka be careful of the wrong brain drain)

Interesting article on trying to keep your technical architects around as they are the ones that have the scars from war stories and have built up experience on leading the project in the right direction But cynically speaking, what company is ever going to see the wisdom in that. Right? I mean keeping an old […]

2006 10 22 tagme Comments Off on The Pied Piper of Architects (aka be careful of the wrong brain drain)

David Pogue reviews the Sony Mylo

From the article… Sony may be the first company ever to depict throwing up as a way to sell electronics. Seems once again Sony missed the target market by a decent amount again. One of these days they’ll hit the right combination again. But it seems as usual, their engineers are a little out of […]

2006 10 22 tagme Comments Off on David Pogue reviews the Sony Mylo

Getting cvsync running on cygwin

I’m trying to get cvsync running on cygwin and after looking at the homepage. There didn’t seem to be that many straightforward instructions nor is there a package in the default cygwin repository. Bummer. So I took a shot and tried downloading the tarball and compiling it. $ wget 

2006 10 14 tagme Comments Off on Getting cvsync running on cygwin

Google Groups Beta doesn’t support page up/down or keyboard shortcuts?

I’ve been testing the new Google Groups Beta and design-wise it looks a little bit cleaner however one SERIOUS flaw is that I can’t seem to get paging to work at all. Pressing Page Up or Page Down results in no response. Okay, rtfm… Piles and piles of pages of useless docs on how to […]

2006 10 10 tagme Comments Off on Google Groups Beta doesn’t support page up/down or keyboard shortcuts?

A social psychology model answer to why people won’t switch OSes

OSNews has an interesting article detailing why people won’t switch OSes even when there might be many technical advantages to. Definitely an interesting read. It frames the reasoning in something called the Elaboration Likelihood Model. I’ve not heard of it but then again I’m no psychologist researcher either so I guess that’s not surprising. Read […]

2006 10 07 tagme Comments Off on A social psychology model answer to why people won’t switch OSes

Fixing SVK ‘Oh no, no more exceptions! add_directory() failed’

The Problem $ svk mirror  http://svn.somewhere.org/project //mirror/project Committed revision 1. $ svk sync //mirror/project Syncing 

2006 10 04 tagme Comments (1)

Clinton ‘endorses’ Ubuntu

Well perhaps not the Ubuntu I associate with but close enough…

2006 10 04 tagme Comments Off on Clinton ‘endorses’ Ubuntu