Where Are The Wise Men?

I took some time tonight and played with some Rails tutorials and yet have had a “A-Ha!” moment. You know, the moment when you say, “Yeah, this is really cool! I can’t wait to use it!” I mean, parts of it are cool, like writing one line of code and you have [...]

Car pooling is a good thing — especially with the price of fuel nowdays. I stumbled upon eRideShare today, which helps line up a car pool for people. Hey, you can make a difference. Actually, if enough people start doing it, you will make a big difference.

I’d be happy to car pool [...]

Problem: I had files from a directory I had on one machine to a directory on another. I didn’t care about subdirectories (there are none) nor did I care about files on the remote machine not being on the local side. What I did care about was not overwriting the files [...]

I don’t even get to my cube when I overhear this:

“When I hear people talk about security, I start to feel unsecure.”   — Director of Regulatory Compliance

I have an old Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite (that looks mostly like this Lite2 model) that I just love. Even though the keyboard itself is small, the keys are normal size and it feels really good to type on. Just enough resistance and noise to make it fun. and the CTRL key is [...]

Yep, I’m going to do some Rails stuff on this new MacBook Pro. More posts on that later — maybe after I learn a few things.

This page explains how to install it on Tiger by downloading and compiling everything manually. I already had DarwinPorts installed so I decided to use that instead. [...]

So I was on my MacBook Pro and went to write an email. I instinctively did C-p to move up a line. And you know? It worked! I was surprised! So I did other Emacs keystrokes (C-a, C-e, etc) and they all worked! C-k didn’t work, but I [...]

I downloaded the latest Eclipses and unzippped in on my MacBook. When I try to run it, I get an error that tells me to look in ~/Documents/workspace/.metadata/.log. This is the error message in that log:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 2006-04-25 21:24:29.412 !MESSAGE Application error !STACK 1 java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /Users/michaelhostetler/eclipse/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/63/1/.cp/libswt-pi-carbon-3139.jnilib: at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method) at [...]

Unfortunately, my work machine isn’t a Mac and, while Cygwin works well, there are some warts. One of the worst ones is how it handles Windows terrible drive letters (Hey, no one wants to relive DOS . . . ). Cygwin uses /cygdrive/c/ for C:\, which I think is too wordy. [...]

I have a tiny little web site that I’m beginning to setup — just some basic PHP for now. I need to update some stuff on there and so I fired up Aquamacs on my MacBook and began to edit stuff over Tramp.

And something went horribly, terribly wrong.

I’m not sure what that something was, [...]