Interested in learning some more about programming, and/or the Ruby language in particular?
You’ll want to take a look at Why’s (poignant) Guide to Ruby.
I’ve only just started it, and it’s not only informative and accessible, but a truly different sort of technical book. Maybe it’s not for everyone, but if typical programming language guides leave you yawning, definitely take a look at this one. I believe it is still a work in progress, but it is available under a Creative Commons license, so you can read it as it grows.
Why is also (IIRC) the individual mainly responsible for hoodwink.d.
One could inject some irony into the observation that dead 2.0 is, currently, dead.
On the other hand, if you saw it in the last few days of last month, you know that the reason it’s dead is because it went over its allotted bandwidth for the month; presumably, it is still down because it is moving to a server or system capable of higher traffic.
All of which would indicate that the only reason it is currently, um, dead, is because of its great success. As one who is pretty skeptical of most of the Web 2.0 hype himself, I’m quite happy to see it succeed, and look forward to the return of our favorite Web 2.0 skeptic.
Now, it is with some irony that we could note that, if the “web two-point-oh” buzz itself were not so successful, the skeptic would have nothing to talk about — making dead 2.0’s success a byproduct of the success it’s target of ridicule… hmm.
Screen resolution and Nvidia drivers
At home I have a two-day old Ubuntu install sitting on my PC. It now has a 1280×1024 resolution, the nvidia drivers (with glx) installed, and Beryl and emerald (more on this later) installed on top of all that.
Continue reading ‘Configuring Graphics on Ubuntu, Part 1′
If you tried to visit this morning, you saw an ominous error message stating that this account had been suspended. It turns out that this was an accounting error; multiple sites (none of the others belonging to me) were also down on this host because of the same error. These things happen — it’s resolved now, and so I’m not worried about it. I have a great host, and issues like this are very rare.
Continue reading ‘Concerning this morning’s downtime…’
Sometime soon, some enterprising netizen may just begin a pool on how long it will be until I switch Linux distributions, and which one I’ll install next.
Having said that, it has been a sufficiently long time since I installed Ubuntu that I have forgotten whatever terrible offense it committed which prompted me to replace it.
Continue reading ‘Linux Flavor of the Week: Ubuntu’
I saw this link on del.icio.us a moment ago, and I nearly laughed out loud. Then I realized that many people are probably believing it, and may even be getting outraged about it, so I decided to make a post out of it.
Basically, the idea is that 51 of the world’s 100 largest “economies” are not nations, but corporations.
That statement is misleading at best, and taken at face value, completely untrue.
Continue reading ‘The “51% of World’s largest economies are corporations” Myth’
I was too slow.
Two weeks ago I was actually contemplating web authentication systems, and it occurred to me that it would be really nice if I could just use my Google account and password to authenticate to a site of my own design. I thought it over for a little while, though, and a lot of problems presented themselves.
Continue reading ‘Yahoo’s Browser Based Authentication’
