Update RubyGems 1.2 to 1.3.1 on Mac OS


Picture:Clock Published on February 16th, 2009 in Mac OS X, Ruby On Rails

Due to a nasty bug in RubyGems 1.2, you need to install a special gem to be able to update to version 1.3.1:
# sudo gem install rubygems-update
# sudo update_rubygems

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How to install Redmine on Dreamhost using Passenger


Picture:Clock Published on February 4th, 2009 in General

Just follow the online documentation on redmine.org, after which you will be able to access redmine, but all static files like CSS are not being displayed. To make this work, you have to delete or rename the .htaccess file in the public subfolder within redmine. Restart Passenger by executing “touch tmp/restart.txt” and all should be [...]

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Install flarcreate on Solaris


Picture:Clock Published on February 3rd, 2009 in Other

Because I installed OpenSolaris only with its Core Packages, flarcreate was missing. The script is included in the SUNWinst package, which can be easily installed from the installation CD or DVD.
1. Mount the media
2. Change to following folder:
/Solaris_11/Product
3. Now execute “pkgadd -d . SUNWinst”
This applies to older versions of Solaris as well.

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Passwordless SSH Login


Picture:Clock Published on November 2nd, 2008 in Linux, Mac OS X, Other

Note: This will only work on UNIX hosts.
1. Create your private/public key pair, which will create a private key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa a public one in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub:
# ssh-keygen -t rsa
2. Now copy your public key over to the remote host:
# scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub username@remote-host.com:~
# ssh username@remote-host.com
# cat ~/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
3. You’re done! You can now access [...]

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Eclipse Ganymede and Subversion (Subclipse)


Picture:Clock Published on August 28th, 2008 in General

Eclipse Ganymede is the new Eclipse distribution which is supposed to facilitate the dependency-hell problem many eclipse users face. Don’t get me wrong here, it’s fine release with numerous improvements, but they’ve totally failed with integrating a Subversion client like Subclipse or Subversive.
To solve this problem, simply add the following update site for the Subclipse [...]

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OpenSolaris 2008.05 Project Indiana


Picture:Clock Published on May 9th, 2008 in Other

OpenSolaris 2008.05, also called Project Indiana has been released more than a week ago and shows where Solaris’ future is headed to. It comes on a 650MB ISO image, containing a live cd. So you can even test it on real hardware before installing it. If you’re not familiar with OpenSolaris yet, I suggest you [...]

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Benchmark: mod_rails vs. Mongrel


Picture:Clock Published on April 23rd, 2008 in General

A guy nicknamed “s2″ benchmarked mod_rails against Mongrel. It’s not really scientific, but shows that at least for small sites, mod_rails definitely is a good and easier to setup alternative. I’m planning to do my own benchmarking soon on my shiny, new SUN Ultra 24 Workstation that comes with great Ruby & Rails support out [...]

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mod_rails for Apache is here


Picture:Clock Published on April 14th, 2008 in Ruby On Rails

Many shared hosts have been waiting for this: A mod_rails for Apache, making Rails applications deployment as easy as deploying PHP based ones. Check out the demo screencast on how to install and use it.
It’ll be interesting to see, how well it performs compared to Mongrel and how much memory it consumes. According to the [...]

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Breaking the silence


Picture:Clock Published on March 11th, 2008 in General

It’s been quite a while since my last post. Ok, I admit it, I even haven’t found the time to post this year so far. There’s a lot of stuff going on that I would like to share. I’ve been digging into Java, Rails and OpenSolaris (incl. ZFS). I’m planning to post in great detail [...]

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Watch South Park online


Picture:Clock Published on November 12th, 2007 in Fun

Here’s a list of sites you can watch South Park on. Enjoy!
If you know of other good places to watch South Park, post them in the comments!

http://allsp.com
http://www.southparkzone.com
http://www.mrtwig.net
http://www.stansdad.com
http://www.vidlist.net/show/69/SouthPark.htm
http://alloftv.net/index.php?content=episodes&show=2
http://www12.alluc.org/alluc/cartoons.html?action=getviewcategory&category_uid=412

If you like the Simpsons as well, check out this list of sites showing Simpsons episodes.
Or do you like Family Guy even more? Here’s a list of sites where [...]

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