Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
02 2010
Just a note of congratulations to Phillips who appear to provide electronic copies of their product manuals online. I'm torn though between pointing out how this is a good thing(tm) and berating them for the fact that it is not at all obvious how to remove the dust collecting cylinder of their FC 8738 Animal Care vacuum cleaner.
As an aside, despite the label 'Animal Care' neither Puppy nor Kitten are too enamoured by the scary noisy machine. Perhaps they read 'care' in a more Al Pacino sense of the word. (Completely justified in Puppy's case as everyone knows vacuum cleaners are canine specific interdimensional portals.)
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Bórd Scannán na hÉireann in association with Monster Animation and Design present this short film about transport within Dublin. As someone who uses public transport in Dublin almost every day of the week, I regret to say I largely agree that their title - "Not There Yet" - expresses the state of play pretty accurately.
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I'm going to try making a small project in Ruby on Rails, so first I need to install the development environment on my laptop. More for my own future reference than anyone else's benefit, here's what I did:
sudo aptitude update (because it's just a good idea)
sudo aptitude install ruby-full build-essential (This installs emacs. wtf?!? Oh well...)
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60718/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz (Find the latest RubyGems package from rubyforge.org)
tar xzvf rubygems-1.3.5.tgz
cd rubygems-1.3.5
sudo ruby setup.rb (It appears to hang for a while with no output but eventually works and returns you to a prompt. So far so good...)
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem
sudo gem update --system (Should say nothing to update if you've pulled down the latest version)
sudo gem install rails (Install rails)
All done and nothing remaining but to check that MySQL is up and running and start developing actual code.
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