Note to self: soap4r and passenger don’t play nice

You’ll have to use conservative spawning mode in passenger to be able to use soap4r.

Disappointing.

fudometeralert

argued with a good friend about apple (both hw and sw). the only argument I’ll accept as valid was a much smaller scene of homebrew vst- and photoshop-plugins. (been there) apart from that it was mostly uninformed blah. he’s using vista 64bit. go figure.

Gloc vs. Rails 2.1

The internal Rails Date-Helpers (select_day, select_month, select_year) somewhere on the way to R2.1 got a third param called html_options. Too bad Gloc didn’t notice :)

note to self: rsync…

rsync -r -v -t —progress /Volumes/ROCKBOX/ /Volumes/Musik/musik/

Fixing Firefox after a user migration in OS X

When I used the (otherwise great) migration assistant to transfer my files from my old MBP to the new one, everything went smoothly. With one exception: Downloading files with Firefox became nearly impossible, since it wanted to save the temp files in a non-existing directory. Why? Because I also changed my username on the new machine (to proactively comply with the OS X Server rules we’ll put in place in the company), so the absolute path to my home folder changed. I googled a bit on it and found something on a system setting “Download Folder”, that should be changeable through Safari. Well, it wasn’t. And then I found this article on macosxhints that did the trick: Open a plist file (feels like the old dirty regedit.exe times) and delete a value. Now I’m back in the game.

(Ok, that’s what my family calls it; the closet with old CDs, the occasional router or Hayes Smart Modem, enough cables to restring the Golden Gate Bridge, and an amazingly odd assortment of different SCSI adaptors.)

Andy Hunt on his “Closet of Death” from this article

(sounds awfully familar, especially the assortment of SCSI adaptors)