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

Finally after months I’ve created a vhost on hamerica for hosting Firma HRP website. It no longer shows my munin stats.

I’ve even started some consultations on what they wish to have there.

web, website

I’ve installed alfresco on Gentoo, used Gentoo HOWTO . Only major problem which I encountered was with not finding jdbc MySQL driver. I’ve tried to use script from the HowTo, but it wasn’t working.

My Solution was to rebuild jdbc driver ( the script broken it ) ( emerge -av jdbc-mysql ) and then I’ve done a simple find /usr -name jdbc-mysql.jar and linked the file inside tomcats lib ( ln -s `find /usr -name jdbc-mysql.jar` /usr/share/tomcat-6/lib/jdbc-mysql.jar )

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It looks like Dilbert Website went Web 2.0. It’s back in ˝BETAˇ stage.

It’s sad that people think that they need Flash  to display colour cartoon strip on a page.

It’s sad that they used a web mastering company which has no clue on what World Wide Web is like and they are blocking display of content just because your web browser is sending ˝not approvedˇ User-Agent string. I’m talking about new animations section. You can easly access the content when you change that string, so there is no technical problem, just mentality one [ what reminds me of RBS and doing the same to Firefox 3].

rant, website

Grr, hate the Intenet criminals, had to delete old copy of my blog because there was a crack in it.

Welcome to an upgraded wordpress!

website

Before Xmas, I have decided to learn a bit of Persian language. You know, just to occupy my brain with something other than technology. Today I’ve found to really great website which teaches you the language for free!

Persian language lessons archive 1

Watch out Malcolm! I will bug you very soon !

education, languages, website

This is busy period, I am working my ass out and I have not much time for my self.

At least I have manage to get a break mid July and I have uploaded some pictures to my, today fixed, gallery

When I was on holiday, my broadband supplier ( Black Cat Networks ) has been taken over and my superb service will be disrupted as a new company will not provide IPv6 which I rely on. I have subscribed with with AAISP they have strange bandwidth limits … 8-18 workdays … but during that time I am at the office, so not a big problem.

broadband, household, internet access, ipv6, website

After introducing recaptcha to my blog, I have enjoyed some time spam free.

They are back, but this time instead of using comments form, they use something what is called Trackback/Pingback.

TB/PB is basically an interface which allows blogs to talk to each other. For example I have blogged about something and some other blogger has wrote a comment on his blog about my post and linked to my post, TB/PB system will then tell my blog about that blogger and send me his post so I can approve it as a comment on my blog.

Easy… but it goes around recaptcha and lands in my for moderation queue … and this is how spam gets to me now…

Fortunately there are some plugins to deal with that kind of spam … but they are not as efficient as recaptcha  … still will have to try

spam, website

Just installed reCAPTCHA to get rid of spam from comments.

You don’t see, but there was a lot of spam comments on my blog. As I have moderation on, they didn’t appear on the site… but it does not mean that they didn’t appear in my inbox.

So now, reCAPTCHA will help keep my inbox cleaner. As well as your comments will help digitize books.

At least according to Ben Maurer.

geek, website

For very long time I have been refusing to create accounts on Web 2.0 community websites. I am considering this kind of stuff childish and hyped for teenagers. I can create and host my content on my own.

Unfortunately W2.0 community sites are huge and not only teenagers started to use them. I had to pass. My first was orkut, were I have created an account just to stay in contact with a blacky_ . A few year later, in the beginning of 2007 when I was considering moving jobs, I was invited to LinkedIn a W2.0CW for professionals. Yesterday … FaceBook .

I hope that is it, I really refuse to have any connection to myspace.

One thing is certain, I will still use my MobyGeek site as a primary place to host my content.

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