Blog Archive » January 2007

Updated: January 28, 2007December 7, 2006

If you need to sync up the installed Ruby gems on one machine with another you need a quick way to get the current gem list. Here's my simple script that does just that: #!/bin/sh for x in ` gem list -- local \ | grep ' ( ' \ | sort \ | awk ' BEGIN { FS = " " } { print $1 } '`; do echo " gem install $x &...

Updated: January 19, 2007January 18, 2007

I spent about two years back in the mid 90's learning HTML , and basic CSS. I started out with a WYSIWYG editor called HotDog . Some of you old timers might remember HotDog. The special feature in HotDog I liked so much was how it had a code view as well as a rendered view of your HTML code [1] . This allowed me to learn HTML slowly, seeing exactly what each tag would do in...

January 6, 2007

I decided to have a look at Gentoo Linux. I'm an old Gentoo fan/user but I haven't installed it on any of my servers for a while.. this Ubuntu thing had been working so well and all. The Live-CD was kinda neat. I got to a Gnome desktop and tried the curses-based installer. It ran and I went to bed since it was pretty late already. The installer crashed sometime during the ...

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January 3, 2007

Wouldn't make a bad president would he? More Bush bashing .