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Archive for March, 2006
Bum permissions on /tmp and MySQL startup
Just killed an hour on getting MySQL running on my G5 at home. Thankfully, I found this blog post. Actually, I’m surprised that the bad permissions on /tmp haven’t bit me before now. I didn’t have this problem on two other machines I put MySQL on, but both of them had clean [...]
Friday, March 31st, 2006. Posted in Mac OS X | No Comments »>
Rails 1.1 and OS X setup, part II
Oh, it would have been easier if I had found this earlier.
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006. Posted in Mac OS X, Ruby on Rails | No Comments »>
Rails 1.1 and OS X setup
The release of Rails 1.1 today finally inspired me to finish moving my rails dev over to my mac, where it should have been in the first place. I’d toyed with using Locomotive, but decide to go with the proper install, based on the excellent instructions at Hivelogic. Probably didn’t pick the best [...]
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006. Posted in Mac OS X, Ruby on Rails | No Comments »>
Kolchak memories
This Washington Post column rings true in a few too many ways for me. (Thanks for the pointer, Dad!) I would say I’m a bit more resigned to it that this guy though. I don’t even bother to buy the DVDs.
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006. Posted in Family and Friends, TV | No Comments »>
Coincidence
Kt and I went out with some other couples from the neighborhood Saturday night. Quite accidently, we discovered that one of the other guys and I share the same birthday. As in actual same date (day and year) and that we were both born on that day in suburbs of Washington, DC. [...]
Monday, March 27th, 2006. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>
41 of 90 ain’t bad, er, well…
Actually, I guess it is bad. I got back my sleep study results today. 41 apneas in 90 snoring incidents. That’s pretty bad, appearently. My blood Oxygen got as low as 80% — normal is around 90%. Guess I need to get that CPAP pronto!
Friday, March 17th, 2006. Posted in Health | No Comments »>
Know any young IT professionals in need of work?
I’m hiring for a fulltime tech support/system admin position answering to me at work. If you know of anyone in in the DFW area with Windows/Mac experience, have them forward me a resume.
Friday, March 17th, 2006. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>
Convergence…of what?
Microsoft Business Solutions is a rudderless ship. Just take a look at the website for their big annual conference, Convergence 2006. I took a look because I am an Axapta users. Axapta is a great ERP package that MBS has run into the ground since acquiring it several years ago.
I also took [...]
Monday, March 13th, 2006. Posted in Dynamics AX, Technology | No Comments »>
Subversion setup, finally
After way too much procrastination, I’ve finally setup a Subversion repository server for myself at work. I’m afraid being the only developer on most of the projects I work on has let me get a away with a lot of lax code management. Thanks to an excellent article at MacDevCenter it was very [...]
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Dallas.rb
I plan on attending the first meeting of the Dallas Ruby Brigade this evening. Should be fun. I know at least one of the attendees will also be at the RubyConf in June, so it’ll be good to make some connections.
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006. Posted in Ruby on Rails | No Comments »>
I need professional help
While we were away on vacation, Texas had a deep freeze. Of course, it hadn’t really occurred to us to do proper winterization before we left, since the average temperature this winter has been about 70 degrees.
When we arrived home last weekend, we were in the middle of the biggest rainfall in [...]
Sunday, March 5th, 2006. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>
