Monthly Archives: August 2006

Access Your Computer’s BIOS

Posted on August 31, 2006 by blandname

UPDATE – Many people have asked me to write an article about accessing a Macintosh BIOS, so here it is! I helped a friend out today who wanted to reinstall Windows on his Dell laptop. When he inserted the CD … Continue reading →

Posted in BIOS, Microsoft, Uncategorized, award, boot from cd, compaq, dell, hp, ibm, laptop, phoenix, phoenix bios, reinstall windows, tip, windows | Leave a comment

Mephisto Immortus (0.6) Released

Posted on August 31, 2006 by blandname

Mephisto is a CMS engine written using Ruby on Rails. The newest version has been released today and many people are very excited about it as it adds yet another Rails application to the ever-expanding list. Some quick Mephisto features: … Continue reading →

Posted in blog, cms, content management solution, mephisto, rails, ruby, ruby on rails, textpattern, typo, web, web development, weblog, weblog tools, wordpress | Leave a comment

Ruby and FTP

Posted on August 30, 2006 by blandname

I came across a great tip that should help anyone trying to make an FTP client in Ruby. Basically it seems the Net/FTP library is attempting reverse lookups of addresses you try to connect to (which is in itself fine, … Continue reading →

Posted in agile, code, file transfer, ftp, japanese, libraries, programming, ruby, software | Leave a comment

Make A Solaris 10 DVD Image On Windows

Posted on August 29, 2006 by blandname

Firstly, grab all of the image files from Sun You’ll need a Sun ID, and you don’t need to use the Java download helper, but if you’re on a slow connection it will certainly help (if anything, it helps by … Continue reading →

Posted in Microsoft, archive, burning, cheetah, code, dvd, dvd burning, image, linux, nero, roxio, solaris, sun, unix, windows, winrar | 3 Comments

Dreamhost Stats Rewriting and Typo with .htaccess

Posted on August 28, 2006 by blandname

If you run Ruby on Rails apps, or a Typo installation on Dreamhost, you may have noticed that you cannot access your stats page. Here’s the code that will get it running, quick and dirty, and have you poring over … Continue reading →

Posted in apache, apple, code, dreamhost, editor, hosting, htaccess, linux, mac, macintosh, mod-rewrite, os x, pico, programming, rails, ruby, ruby on rails, ssh, unix | Leave a comment