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Rails on a netbook?
I am here today to ask a question and then answer it. The question is: Can you run Ruby on Rails on a netbook? Specifically, an Acer Aspire One. My motivation is … since buying my netbook, i have...
View ArticleWindows 7 – a second chance for Vista?
Please don't all freak out on me … but … i am thinking of trying out the Windows 7 beta. I think it's fair to say that Windows Vista did not quite meet all the expectations that Microsoft had for it in...
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Windows 7 quick review
I installed Windows 7 Beta for a few reasons: Because it's free! (as in free beer) In order to test things under Windows and IE8 To get SecondLife / OpenLife which are kinda dodgy on Linux Just for...
View ArticleApache tricks on Linux
Most of my life is spent coding Ruby on Rails, but occasionally i venture into the world of PHP. When i do, i sometimes need to configure Apache because, unlike Rails, it does not happen automagically!...
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Epoch countdown
Terribly geeky, i know! Many modern computers count their time in the number of seconds since Unix Time, an epoch beginning on 1st January 1970. In about 8 minutes it is going to reach 1,234,567,890 –...
View ArticleA quick way to resize images in Linux
Quite often i find myself wanting to resize a whole directory of images. Rather than opening them all in the gimp, i do it through the command line. I seem to do this often enough that it's worth...
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Packard Bell Mustek Bearpaw scanner on Ubuntu/Mint
I am quite sure that nobody cares about this except for me, unless they happen to have a similar scanner to mine. I've had to do this process about 5 times now on different installs. I can guarantee...
View ArticleA simple backup strategy
Today i scanned several of my university lecture notes into PDF format. The ScanSnap document scanner makes this a very fast and easy process, and it includes text recognition. This feels good: i can...
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The Wessex Wyvern as SVG
I needed to find a good quality image of a Wyvern, the symbol of Wessex, ancient kingdom of the West Saxons. The best i could find was the image on the Wessex Flag, below, but it is poor quality and...
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Computer generated art
I woke up yesterday with a simple idea for generating a picture based on an input string. I don't exactly know where the idea came from, but i think i've been influenced by Nick Huggins, whose abstract...
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