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Upgrading to rails 2.2
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008Whole Disk Encryption for Mac OS X
Friday, August 29th, 2008We’ve been encrypting our Ubuntu laptops for a while now, but there hasn’t been a good whole disk encryption option for the Mac until today. RSA is a little behind schedule in the release, but it’s out today.
Installation was a snap. Encrypting the boot drive was easy as well. 5 mins of your time and the takes care of the business in the background while you work. Reboot when it’s done (about 90 mins later for me) and your drive is secure.
Sweet.
Yes, you can follow me on twitter. twitter.com/mrdoornbos
You know you want to. Go ahead, everyone’s doing it. You don’t want to be left out do you?
Github takes a stab at social code review and we like it
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
A shout out
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Just for the record, we LOVE Github and no we’re not paid to say that, it’s just really great.
Happy Pi Day
Friday, March 14th, 2008Today is the day to celebrate Pi!
Didn’t know that? Us either. According to PiDay.org March 14th is the day we all celebrate Pi.
I’m personally going to celebrate eating some Pie, and then using Pi to calculate the pie’s measurements.
I know, pretty sad.
Firefox 3 BETA 4 is out
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008Get it while it’s hot here.
Linus Torvolds Keynote from Linuxworld - in 2000
Thursday, February 28th, 2008My good friend Jake and I trucked up to new york and were sitting pretty close to where this camera is to watch this speech. We were fairly new to Linux at this point, the year before I was RedHat certified for the first time and only about 4 years prior to this speech I installed my first Slackware system (it was on a stack of floppies and took about 12 hours to install).
This was the conference where we came home with about 20 pounds of giveaways. Ahh, the good ol days.
Watch it here:
http://www.linux.com/feature/127400
He talks quite a bit about Unix fragmentation. It’s striking in 2008 how fragmented Linux has become.
He also says, in 2000, Java is dying.
What’s new in FreeBSD 7.0?
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Oreilly has a pretty good article on what’s exciting in FreeBSD 7.
We’re big fans of Sun’s ZFS file system which is working well for us in the RC versions of FreeBSD 7.
I’m on Firefox 3 and can’t go back
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008I switched to Firefox 3 on all of my machines. The page rendering speed improvements are so dramatic that there’s no way I can go back to “stable” versions.
It’s almost as fast as Safari. Almost.