http://lpetr.org/blog Musings about technology Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:01:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I ran into a tiny pickle while installing the ibm_db gem on Ubuntu: Select which gem to install for your platform (i486-linux) 1. ibm_db 0.9.5 (ruby) 2. ibm_db 0.9.5 (mswin32) 3. ibm_db 0.9.4 (ruby) 4. ibm_db 0.9.4 (mswin32) 5. Skip this gem 6. Cancel installation > 1 Building native extensions. This could ... http://lpetr.org/blog/archives/error-failed-to-build-gem-native-extension I am looking for an online tool that takes a feed and then republishes in digest format -- one entry per day. Feed Informer just does a straight, entry-for-entry republishing. Ditto for Feedburner. This is for a Twitter feed, and Twitter Digest claims to do what I want, but it appears ... http://lpetr.org/blog/archives/daily-feed-digest Substantial content is in the pipes, but in the meantime here's Arve Bersvendsen's history meme: history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head In my cygwin: 52 python 44 ssh 33 exit 33 cd 18 ls 7 java 5 diff 4 nano 2 ping 1 svn And on a Linux machine I administrate: 211 sudo 92 ls 80 cd 34 locate 14 nano 6 ... http://lpetr.org/blog/archives/history-meme TeXnicCenter is an excellent IDE for developing TeX documents on Windows. It follows the usual interface conventions and is quite helpful in getting started and debugging. TeX is the standard page layout language for writing mathematical and scientific papers. Here are some excellent tutorials for getting started with TeX. The IDE requires ... http://lpetr.org/blog/archives/an-ide-for-tex After I installed Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, I tried to update it. It prompted me for a root password even though the install hadn't asked for one -- it had only created a regular user. Sudo didn't help. I tried booting in single-user mode, but that also prompted me ... http://lpetr.org/blog/archives/forgotten-root-password-in-suse-linux One of the tables of my MediaWiki installation crashed. When I tried to repair it, I got this less-than-helpful error message. So did the mysqlcheck utility when I SSHed to the server. However, the command has extra options that can be used to repair high levels of corruptions, such as ... http://lpetr.org/blog/archives/repair-table-failed-please-run-repair-table John Resig writes very positively about Jaxer. It runs Javascript on the server while serving documents to the client, with seamless communication between JS on the client and JS on the server. Jaxer provides: Full DOM on the server Shared code between client and server Database, file, and socket access from JavaScript Familiar APIs Integration with ... http://lpetr.org/blog/archives/jaxer-ameliorating-ie8 HTML 5 HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 Woot! http://lpetr.org/blog/archives/html5-now-a-working-draft After an internal build of Internet Explorer 8 passed the Acid2 test, they've announced that the new engine will only be used for sites with a special, opt-in meta tag: It can also be triggered from the server via an HTTP header: X-UA-Compatible: IE=8; Firefox is unlikely to follow suit. In other news, John ... http://lpetr.org/blog/archives/one-step-forward-two-steps-back Base2 has just come out in beta on Google Code. It's hosted there and can be included straight off the Google Code server. I think it's a really neat library because it basically fixes all browsers so that the built-in DOM, events, etc work the same way. Instead of providing an ... http://lpetr.org/blog/archives/dean-edwards-releases-beta-of-base2