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We’ve been working on a new project for a while now and we’re ready to start having users. we’d appreciate you checking it out, sending us feedback and blogging about it. Here’s the short short version of
BonfireJOBS:

Get paid to find a job. No really.

BonfireJOBS is a new website that rewards candidates for prompt, courteous responses to employer requests.

Post a resume – leave off contact information. Employers who can search our database for free will find you. If they want to make a connection, they will use our system to contact you.

Respond in 24-hours and they pay your price – just for making a connection with them. We’ll mail you a check once a month.

Refer your friends – you can refer both candidates and employers to
BonfireJOBS. If you do, you’ll get a piece of the service charge we charge employers on each transaction. By the way, the benefit is mutual, we are giving the person you refer a piece for joining through your referral.

Send feedback to info@bonfirejobs.com.

Capistrano 2.0 doesn’t work with those mongrel recipes we all have nowadays. We scratched our head at some hacks before finding a good solution via the blog world.

Thanks to Megablaix, Inc for posting this code. Works great for us, just tack it onto the end of your deploy.rb and go:

namespace :deploy do
  namespace :mongrel do
    [ :stop, :start, :restart ].each do |t|
      desc "#{t.to_s.capitalize} the mongrel appserver"
      task t, :roles => :app do
        #invoke_command checks the use_sudo
        #variable to determine how to run
        # the mongrel_rails command
        invoke_command "mongrel_rails cluster::#{t.to_s} -C #{mongrel_conf}", :via => run_method
      end
    end
  end

  desc "Custom restart task for mongrel cluster"
  task :restart, :roles => :app, :except =>
       { :no_release => true } do
    deploy.mongrel.restart
  end

  desc "Custom start task for mongrel cluster"
  task :start, :roles => :app do
    deploy.mongrel.start
  end

  desc "Custom stop task for mongrel cluster"
  task :stop, :roles => :app do
    deploy.mongrel.stop
  end
end

According to an Appleinsider article today, certain Seagate drives, specifically those with model numbers ST96812AS and ST98823AS are flawed and can cause data loss.

Make sure you back them up and get them replaced.

To see if you have an affected drive:

• click the apple icon on your menu bar
• select “About this mac”
• click “more info…”
• look at the drive model in the Serial-ATA section

Email support@imapenguin.com if you need assistance.

We’ve been testing the 2.0 Beta release of the free VMWare server. We’ve been using the 1.x series in both development and production since it was called GSX server and are very impressed with the 2.0 version.

Our favorite feature is the web based administration console. With a firefox plugin, you can now do what the desktop version could do and more.

Here’s a screenshot:

We’re available at support@imapenguin.com if you’re interested in how this version will affect your current VMWare servers or are interested in how virtualization can work for you.

Get it here, while it’s hot off the presses. I know, we’re such nerds…

Here’s an emulator screenshot.

We penguins have been discussing publicly since we first started developing on mobile back in 2001 that mobile phone apps will continue to largely suck until some major players come up with a reasonably open platform. That was finally announced today:

Upgrading is a snap. Do:

sudo sed -e 's/\sfeisty/ gutsy/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade