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Monthly Archives January 2009

MacBook Mini

I really, really hoped that Apple would announce a ‘MacBook Mini’ – a Mac OS X netbook – at the MacWorld conference this month. They didn’t, so I decided to take matters into my own hands. I already own the first-generation netbook, Asus’ Eee PC 701, which I installed Ubuntu on before I’d even got [...]

Posted 28 January 2009 † John § Hackintosh § Hardware § Technology ‡ Comments (3) °

Deploying Rails apps with Passenger

After hacking together enough of a project management system that it could manage its own further development, I decided to try deploying it to my personal project VM before I went to bed. I had previously installed Phusion Passenger on my personal projects VM, so I figured this would be a five minute job. It [...]

Posted 06 January 2009 † John § Rails ‡ Comments (0) °

First Steps

Today is the first day for my new plan of not watching TV at 8pm, and here I am watching TV while I wait for my food to cook. I’m happy with that, though, since the project management system is looking good and I want to take some time to write up my first experiences [...]

Posted 05 January 2009 † John § Mind Tricks § Rails ‡ Comments (0) °