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January 31, 2008
Farewell Rackspace
I wrote the other day that I was going to be moving to RHEL 5 in the near future. What I wasn't sure at the time was exactly how I'd be making the move. At the time it seemed that...More Miscellaneous articles
Posted by wincent at 11:53 AM
January 28, 2008
Involuntary Reboot Log #25
Like I said the other day, looks like this iMac is dying. This time the machine simply turned itself off when I bumped the desk with my knee; it could barely even be called a bump. The average time between...More Involuntary Reboot Log articles
Posted by wincent at 9:39 PM
January 25, 2008
Rails and validates_uniqueness_of
I'm a Rails dabbler who has never actually deployed an application yet but has been working in spare moments on a new version of this site that will be powered by Rails. I was puzzled today to see excess SELECT...More Development articles
Posted by wincent at 8:51 PM
iMac finally dying?
I'm starting to get really worried about this machine. Today we have the painters here painting all the rooms, which means that I've had to take the iMac out into the kitchen. As I've mentioned before, it has a wonky...More Miscellaneous articles
Posted by wincent at 10:28 AM
January 21, 2008
Git 1.5.4-rc4
Git 1.5.4-rc4 is out, and the final 1.5.4 release is likely to come soon, probably before the end of the month. My favorite change in this build is the fix for the performance regression when commiting a single file specified...More Development articles
Posted by wincent at 12:51 PM
January 19, 2008
Moving to RHEL 5
In October last year I wrote about changing UNIXes. Well, it's a new year now and it looks like it is going to happen. I'll be migrating to RHEL 5 (from RHEL 3). I don't have a firm date for...More Miscellaneous articles
Posted by wincent at 2:56 PM
January 17, 2008
Involuntary Reboot Log #24
Only a few days since the last kernel panic and I've just had another hard reset. This time the machine just froze completely with no explanation (mouse pointer frozen, clock frozen, no visible movement on screen or sound from the...More Involuntary Reboot Log articles
Posted by wincent at 7:05 PM
January 16, 2008
On the MacBook Air
I admit to not being really excited about this year's keynote. I've been so engrossed with work of late that I didn't even know what day the keynote would take place. And I knew that most of the things that...More Apple articles
Posted by wincent at 10:26 AM
January 15, 2008
RSpec + Autotest + Objective-C
In this screencast I demo using RSpec and Autotest to do continuous integration/BDD (choose your favorite buzzword) of a compiled Objective-C tool: I've got the flu right now, so apologies for the voice. Here is the commit where I integrate...More Screencasts articles
Posted by wincent at 12:26 PM
January 14, 2008
Open Source economics for the small guy
I like the open source model. I really do think it has the potential to produce better software. Note that I said potential; survey the market place and you'll find examples of open source projects which are best-of-class and others...More Development articles
Posted by wincent at 1:50 PM
Bootable ZFS
It's nice to have official confirmation from an Apple employee that progress is being made towards making ZFS an option for formatting Mac OS X startup disks: Can I boot off of ZFS? Not yet but we are working on...More Mac OS X articles
Posted by wincent at 1:42 PM
January 13, 2008
Involuntary Reboot Log #23
Just went out for two hours and when I came back the machine was displaying the grey screen of death (kernel panic), with the screen saver password prompt visible in the background. Involuntary reboot stats to date Operating system version:...More Involuntary Reboot Log articles
Posted by wincent at 9:40 PM
January 11, 2008
The new Mac Pros
Looking at the specs on the new Mac Pros, nice to see the "grunt" factor rolling inexorably forward. The new Mac Pro combines two of Intel’s new 45 nanometer Quad-Core Xeon 5400 processors running up to 3.2 GHz, new graphics...More Apple articles
Posted by wincent at 9:43 AM
