Continuation

I’ve been looking to be able to code a bit of RoR while on the go. From a few devices which I have, N810 has the longest battery run time.

So… Google gave me a nice How To from Jon Ferrent, it talks about N800 but it’s the same.

I was trying to do all the steps but I just managed to install ruby and sqlite3 packages. After that Gems package installed well but it wasn’t too useful, any attempt at

gem install

or

gem update

nothing worked, left it over the night, nothing happen.

So…

Uninstalled the gem package, downloaded Real Ruby Gems in a zip file ( you will need the unzip package ).

Unzipped the file, went inside the directory. then:

ruby setup.rb --no-ri --no-rdoc

wow it installed something, now doing :

gem update

told me nothing requires update, great, now lets go with rails:

gem install rails

Amazing, installed really quick ( I would recommend not installing the ri and rdoc as well here )

Just created some test rails app and it works!
Now it’s time to find a decent text editor for it and client for Mercurial.

gadget, hacking, programming, ruby, website

Two weeks ago I have got my Nokia n810 a Garnet OS install. I did it just because it enabled me to used the Mobipocket Reader ( for Palm OS ). It works, just the fonts are bit dull.

Now, to celebrate my toys functionality, I’ve bought some Sci-Fi book, which had a reduced price and good ratings.

That book turned out to be a real page turner, I couldn’t believe that books can still have that influence on me.

I even got a sequel strait away after finishing the first one. Man, that was a great journey.

Now, I’m resisting. There is a third part of the series, but I’m keeping my hands away from the mobipocket website. I will keep it for the flight over the pond. It’s 10 days to go and I can’t wait!

Books which I was talking about are writen by Randolph Lalonde, looks like I will read all his books.

Mobipocket is my ebook format of choice. Donno why but it is.

book, gadget, palm

Just been reading some blog on how boeing screwed the 737 and I’ve noticed great logo of the website.

It’s not great as a logo ( as I have not clue about the values there ) but as a comparison of the size of aircraft. Hope it’s all in scale.

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/

aircraft

I have recently moved from Stratford to Poplar.

Maan, how I dislike all that packing up and even more - unpacking.

Now, I have a bit smaller place but better in overall terms.

The only think which I am missing is a place to store my rubbish gadgets. After some consultation with my tribe I will probably go for something like a mechanics tool cabinet Clarke CTC 500 , unfortunately higher models are obscenely expensive!

gadget, household

As you have noticed I had a long drop in posts… work keeps me so busy that I have no desire to do anything else.

Last 2-3 week were particularly intense, I was implementing company wide VoIP based on Asterisk and Linksys phones.  Still stuff left to polish… Now BT thinks I’m a telcoms engineer

asterisk, job, voip

Today I’ve gone to our collocation to replace ancient DAT72 drive with not so ancient SDLT. Haven’t been there for a couple of months. And as always I was curious about what others have in new racks. Today I have spotted some F5 equipment with asset tags by facebook just in the middle of my path to our rack. This bloody things have pink f5 logos the size of 1U shining, hard not to spot.

geek

After doing converting one of my servers (baptop) from a laptop to Virtual Machine on Xen with full virtualization it didn’t work too fast. Virtual environment was too penalizing. It was less reactive and when calling ( it hosts Asterisk for VoIP )  sometime you we could hear each other for a few seconds.

Now, after failed play with Nexenta Core and Xen DomU, I decided to have a go at para virtualizing the baptop. After a few kernel versions and config files … it works. Still without console but works. Great!

I really wanna try that Debian on Solaris kernel called Nexenta. Unfortunately it looks that it can’t do DomU and ZFS_ROOT at the same time. I have filled a bug report with Nexenta.

linux, solaris, virtualization

Monza, apparently not often in rain conditions, brought us Vettel’s first Grand Prix win.

It was comming,  you could see that Torro Rosso are getting up the ladder. They definately started to outpace Red Bull , their sister team. And now Vettel thanks to, what looks like his favourite, wet conditions snatches the win.

Great days to watch the Formula 1, new drivers are doing their job!

formula 1

The Belgian Grand Prix 2008 has been amazing.

Start where almost all cars were wheel spinning was an breath taking moment.

But the biggest surprise was rain just before finish. Hamilton versus Raikkonen battle was just one great piece of extremely good driving.

Stewards didn’t see that, stupid.

formula 1

I’ve picked up a Wii Fit a few days ago in Amsterdam ( while en route to LCY ). And I love it! It’s great fun and work out. Brilliant product.

gadget, gaming, travel