Archive for June, 2009
Goosh – Unoffical Google Shell
Goosh.org is a creation by one of the Google Dev’s, tho outside of Google, to bring the shell to Google. You can search within it, it acts like a shell and it sits right in your browser. Go check it out and have a play. I’m yet to see what it can do but will […]
In: News · Tagged with: google, Google Shell, Goosh
Google Native Client
Google has been working on a product which will slowly change the delivery and usage of native applications. See here What do I mean? Well 10 years ago, you went to your local computer shop and purchased whatever software you wanted. Took it home, installed and then used it. The following release you would go […]
In: News · Tagged with: google, GoogleDocs
The Internet, The toast machine I can’t open up
Do you remember those days as a child, struggling to unscrewed the last screw holding some curious machine, breaking it apart just to get at what makes it tick? Slowly going through all the bits inside and trying to figure what it does and how it does it. Well I don’t, I wasn’t much for […]
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: open source
Crack Zip Password
There is a tool fcrackzip which will bruteforce zip file encryption. See here at ubuntugeek.com Make sure to use the -u option otherwise you will probably be overloaded with many “possible” passwords and no confirmed passwords, as I found. I have tried it on a simple text file zipped with password “pass”, found the password […]
In: Ubuntu Tricks · Tagged with: zip
Routes Error using Phusion Passenger, Apache, Rails 2.2.2 and RailsBaseURI
Rails can’t find the page, but it should be the root directory. It works when I script/server, it just won’t load with Passenger properly. Solutions in google groups Add config.action_controller.relative_url_root = “/appName” to your environment.rb file.
In: Server Config · Tagged with: apache, phusion passenger, Rails
svn2git – How To – svn2git not found
I have tried to move a svn repo to git thismorning and have been having great trouble. Firstly, I work from a Mac. This is not by choice, but was my only option. It was that or paper and pen.. Now I have been working here for a while I have a linux build in […]
In: Server Config, Web Development · Tagged with: git
Github public key authentication rejected
So you just added another public key to your github account so you can deploy your app on your new server. You jump down into a folder you want to put it into (/var/rails) in my case. You notice you need to add sudo to the front so that git can create the folder it […]
In: Server Config · Tagged with: git, Github
Rails Premcache with Memcached
Great write up about how to use memcached to speed up additional requests. http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2006/10/14/premcache-caching-and-precaching-with-memcached One thing I can’t seem to find is a good write up on some basic fragment caching with memcache. Will write my own in a few days.
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: Memcached
