Careful, I think they meant it for emergencies only. I haven't use it in years but I don't think this calls all the rc.d stop scripts, nor syncs the disks.
I found the sync disk (alt sysrq s) useful before shutting down a wedged system.
I usually download the tar.gz for a perl module, then it's a simple 'perl Makefile.pl && make && make test'. Install honors DESTDIR, so then I can package it myself, every time. If my distro ever does release an updated module, my package system should pick it up then.
Gems on the other hand, I haven't been able to package at all. Best solution I've seen is Debian, they set up a 'quarantine' under/var/lib/gems, with it's own bin directory and everything, to keep gems away from Debian packaged ruby libs. Then you get to fight with vendoring, config.gem, initializers, etc. I got to the point on one app where I just gave up and copied the libraries into RAILS_ROOT/lib. I sure hope rails 3.0 improves this.
I have heard/seen the new aluminum cars? They are so quiet you can only hear the sound of the engine passing. And passenger trains are very quiet. The horn is still loud, even if the car is made of aluminum.
I've heard the same (.NET has Microsoft, J2EE has Sun). I was hoping it would be Apple for rails, since they were shipping it with their new OS, but that didn't seem to happen.
I was thinking the same thing, in particular ActionWebService has been replaced by ActiveResource, and much of the controller/routing code seems to cater to REST URLs.
I would see if setting up a REST interface might do it for them. It's not the low level SQL access they asked for, but with a library like ActiveResource they can work with it. Ethically, it's not much different for you than exporting a CSV or something.
Now, if you're in a theater, your phone is off, and you're still wearing the earpiece, then yeah, you're a tool. Especially if it has a blue LED. That blinks.
I don't know, seems to me a cross database join is neither simple nor proper structure. If you are stuck with it schemas would probably work, painless in Active Record, perl DBI requires 'schema.table' syntax.
Don't do 1000 inserts in a row, the pgsql copy function kicks it's ass. I use it to do several thousand rows every 5 minutes in less than 5 seconds on each run all day (telephone records). mysql was the biggest support problem ever with the same dataset.
You should try sqlite, for me these days it's all postgres if I need real database features, or sqlite if it's something simple. sqlite is even bundled with current version of python, php, and it's easy to set up in rails.
Does anybody know how to prevent Screen from capturing the C-a keystrokes when in programs like Emacs?
Do ctrl^A A to send ctrl^A to your app. I do wish they chose a different default sequence, I'm sure it can be changed, but why use the same default as every other program?
If you're like me, you'll find yourself forgetting the ctrl^A trick in screen once in a while, and doing it outside screen once in a while too:/
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda bs=512 count= (get this from fdisk) will do the trick in a pinch.
/dev/urandom is a bit faster. I also use that (in a shell script, to several files not a device) to test new filesystems. Being a cynic, I like to fill up a partition and delete all the data before I trust it:/
It would also be nice if problems with one vhost didn't prevent the entire server from reloading the config. It should give a nasty error maybe, but the webserver shouldn't shut down the working vhosts, at worst it should leave it as it was before the reload.
Check your configs with httpd -t or apachectl graceful. named, radiusd, many other daemons have a check option.
I guess a better (and also more truly capitalist) solution would be to create browser extensions which correct typos. If someone finds the typosquatters annoying they can just use such an extension.
Seems like that can be taken advantage of by bribes^H^H^H^H^Hcontributions from the same companies spamming domain name space.
Maybe they should make some kind of way I can save my favorite sites and come back to them later, like a bookmark...
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Careful, I think they meant it for emergencies only. I haven't use it in years but I don't think this calls all the rc.d stop scripts, nor syncs the disks.
I found the sync disk (alt sysrq s) useful before shutting down a wedged system.
It's so you can tell SQL syntax from column names at a glance. Should get into using an ORM instead :P
I usually download the tar.gz for a perl module, then it's a simple 'perl Makefile.pl && make && make test'. Install honors DESTDIR, so then I can package it myself, every time. If my distro ever does release an updated module, my package system should pick it up then.
Gems on the other hand, I haven't been able to package at all. Best solution I've seen is Debian, they set up a 'quarantine' under /var/lib/gems, with it's own bin directory and everything, to keep gems away from Debian packaged ruby libs. Then you get to fight with vendoring, config.gem, initializers, etc. I got to the point on one app where I just gave up and copied the libraries into RAILS_ROOT/lib. I sure hope rails 3.0 improves this.
OTOH, I would like USENET posting to allow for mark-up text, such as LaTeX or MathML. That would be very useful.
Or HTML, everyone would *love* that :P
(My datacenter charges about a buck a VA)
A watt?
They should build more monorails.
I've heard the same (.NET has Microsoft, J2EE has Sun). I was hoping it would be Apple for rails, since they were shipping it with their new OS, but that didn't seem to happen.
I was thinking the same thing, in particular ActionWebService has been replaced by ActiveResource, and much of the controller/routing code seems to cater to REST URLs.
I would see if setting up a REST interface might do it for them. It's not the low level SQL access they asked for, but with a library like ActiveResource they can work with it. Ethically, it's not much different for you than exporting a CSV or something.
I don't know, seems to me a cross database join is neither simple nor proper structure. If you are stuck with it schemas would probably work, painless in Active Record, perl DBI requires 'schema.table' syntax.
Don't do 1000 inserts in a row, the pgsql copy function kicks it's ass. I use it to do several thousand rows every 5 minutes in less than 5 seconds on each run all day (telephone records). mysql was the biggest support problem ever with the same dataset.
You should try sqlite, for me these days it's all postgres if I need real database features, or sqlite if it's something simple. sqlite is even bundled with current version of python, php, and it's easy to set up in rails.
Do ctrl^A A to send ctrl^A to your app. I do wish they chose a different default sequence, I'm sure it can be changed, but why use the same default as every other program?
If you're like me, you'll find yourself forgetting the ctrl^A trick in screen once in a while, and doing it outside screen once in a while too :/
and what would a mail server be without a root exploit
/dev/urandom is a bit faster. I also use that (in a shell script, to several files not a device) to test new filesystems. Being a cynic, I like to fill up a partition and delete all the data before I trust it :/
Perhaps the plans to build it were on his CIA NeXT drive ;)
Check your configs with httpd -t or apachectl graceful. named, radiusd, many other daemons have a check option.
Seems like that can be taken advantage of by bribes^H^H^H^H^Hcontributions from the same companies spamming domain name space.
Maybe they should make some kind of way I can save my favorite sites and come back to them later, like a bookmark...
Or 'they' could store how many times you've played it, no thanks.
And even then, I wish they could compress it somehow ;)
This would also be great for us tech workers, who get stuck an hour late often anyway. On the 5th day we won't be there for them to nag :)
Did you run latex 2x like some of the docs say? :/
pdflatex might save you a step too.
Hope they fix that in the next version ;)