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I have Ubuntu 9.10 (aka Karmic Koala) running on my laptop. It’s rapidly becoming my portable development machine, so I set up the Rails environment right away. I have decided to add PHP to the… Continue reading | 2 Comments

The latest VMware Server version is 2.0.2, released on October 27 of this year, so I thought I would give it a spin. The downloads are available as RPMs, so that was the obvious… Continue reading

Although the Rails ActionMailer class is easy to test, I wanted to really use it in development mode to check all my settings in the config/email.yml file.

The Fedora code base pretty much… Continue reading | 1 Comment

I’m playing around a bit with the HAML gem. It broke my Apache / Passenger server immediately. The original error message looked something like:

/!\ FAILSAFE /!\ 2009-05-01 10:05:18 -1000
Status… Continue reading

Back in the old days (pre-2000), the various flavors of UNIX had very little security other than the “baked-in” stuff such as encrypted passwords, root vs normal users, the standard file permissions, etc. Later, things… Continue reading

Summarizing all I learned in one place….

I use the KDE window manager on Linux mainly because it’s been the de facto standard for the semiconductor industry since the Dark Ages, and I don’t… Continue reading

My Linux server is running Fedora Core 8 – pretty old by Internet standards (the bleeding edge is FC 11). But now that the kernel patches have died off, my VMware Server 2.0 installation is… Continue reading