Tag Archives: OS X

ACM competition and Ruby/MySQL/OS X troubles

Published: 3 November 2007
Today has been a very long day. I was up at 7:30 this morning in order to help with the regional ACM programming competition. Jess and I showed up and helped work registration, which involved passing out t-shirts, goody bags, and making sure everyone was registered with a name tag. We then [...]
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tags and tension at the barbecue

Published: 22 April 2007
My algorithms test apparently hasn’t been posted because my professor’s in another time zone right now. Suits me fine, as I wasn’t looking forward to taking a 90-minute online test on a Sunday. He did, however, post up information as to what types of questions we’d need to be able to answer. [...]
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RMagick issues on OS X

Published: 10 April 2007
I’ve made some progress with Moola Tracker such that expenses and incomes can be added and a history of them is shown. I now want to display some graphs, which should be an easy task thanks to Gruff Graphs, but unfortunately installing RMagick on my Powerbook has been hell so far. I tried [...]
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using Perl and Apache on OS X

Published: 22 March 2007
What was this /private/etc/httpd/users/sarah.conf that it was talking about? I had never created this file. I checked and it certainly existed. It also had an Options line without ExecCGI--bingo! I simply removed the file because it was just redefining what I had already specified in httpd.conf for Users/*/Site directories (shown above). I then restarted Apache and voila, my scripts worked.
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a Powerbook and a list

Published: 21 February 2007
Todd ordered a refurbished Macbook off of Apple’s site the other day and he’s anxiously waiting for it to get here. Not only that, I’m anxiously awaiting its arrival. Is that because I’m a sweet girlfriend who wants to see her honey as happy as a kid on Christmas morning? Well, partially, [...]
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XGL = hot

Published: 11 August 2006
XGL/Compiz video comparison with OS X Spaces and Vista Aero. Watch those and see which one pwnz which one. I hope getting XGL and Compiz isn’t difficult on my new Ubuntu system.
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