So, Joyent has JRuby support. That is all.
Archive for the 'Asides' Category
What if we put a glass of water with water in it at exactly 0.5 ratio to the size of the glass. If we also put a person in the box and give that person a drug with a random 50% chance of turning the person into either a pessimist or an optimist, and close the box before we know the effect of the drug on the person, the I suppose the glass is both half-full and half-empty.
Yet another example of why people who don’t really study physics probably shouldn’t be allowed to talk about it.
I was forewarned. Rubygems does require a slight bit of configuration on Ubuntu, it seems. That is, it worked fine once installed… but installed gems were not on the default path.
Resolving this is fairly simple; create or edit .bashrc like so:
export PATH=$PATH:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin
Ok, you’re done. Leave your shell and log back in, or source /etc/profile.
Gmail: Is the alert dialog asking “Are you sure?” really necessary when I decide to delete everything in the spam folder?
Regardless that it’s full of messages from people who only seem to want to talk about my penis, difficult as it may be to believe, yes I am really sure.
This has been out for quite a long time, but is worth another viewing. My favorite of the Onion’s videos. Every once in awhile, acerbic wit can point out something with an almost horrific clarity.
Let it be noted that the first installment of the Penny Arcade video game, On The Rain-Slick Precipice Of Darkness, Episode One, has a demo, and a full version available, for not only Mac OS, but also for Linux.
Let is also be noted that using the word “precipice” in the title of your video game may just make it awesome auto magically. Or not. Your Mileage May Vary.
I wanted an excuse to build something small with the Qcodo PHP framework, and I had thought the whole mini-meme around blaming Scoble for Twitter’s downtime, and Drew Olanoff’s inspired leap to blame Scoble for, well, almost everything else, were amusing enough to build a microsite around. So http://blamescoble.com was born.
I don’t know what I expected but what happened, so far, is:
Day 1 (May 31 2008): 134 visits.
Day 2 (June 1 2008): 502 visits (as of 8:50am).
Crimes laid to Scoble’s charge so far: 210.
I was a bit concerned about spam, but stripping HTML from the entries seems to make this sort of thing a less compelling platform for spammers.
As I waited for an attachment to be available in Gmail, I watched a familiar message: scanning for viruses.
It had never occurred to me to wonder before, but… what does Google use to scan for viruses? Does anyone know? Is it a custom solution? ClamAV? A combination of systems?
And if it is a custom Google product doing the scanning, I wonder how long until we could download Google Anti-Virus? (I’m writing this from a Lenovo Laptop; I’m assuming this would only be useful to Windows users. Probably part of the reason I’ve not thought about it before is that I’m not usually using Windows…)
Then again, perhaps I’m just over-thinking (again) — a quick search reveals that Google already includes the free Norton Security Scan and Spyware Doctor with their Google Pack software bundle. Then again, there is no mention in the Gmail Help Center as to whether the software Google is using in gmail to scan for viruses is equivalent to what you can download with Google Pack. For some reason, I doubt they’re simply running Norton Security Scan on every attachment in Gmail.
I’m not sure it matters, but does anyone know what Google uses to scan for viruses in Gmail?
I’m not sure yet if you must be logged in to see the above; let me know.
Looks an awful lot like a more featureful Twitter.
It still seems pretty incomplete, to me. I can’t find the option to post a link or note at all, only the “Wall” option; and links in your “Wall” don’t actually reformat as links, so that’s a big lose for Twitter-like functionality. I think we can assume this will be fixed, though.
So what do you think? Will this work for them?
Internet Duct Tape has a great Greasemonkey script which will effectively turn FriendFeed into a Twitter client; adds the ability to tweet directly from FriendFeed, complete with a 140-character counter to keep you within Twitter parameters.
Still “client” is a bit misleading… to be able to see the messages of everyone you follow on Twitter, you would still need to follow them on FriendFeed (if they’re there) or add them as imaginary friends… which as I said before, is actually a really sweet feature. The same source also has a downloadable script to do just that; if you are on windows.
