We’re busy testing our apps on rails 2.2 now that it’s out.
Things are going very well. We’re here to help you with yours if you need us, send an email to support@imapenguin.com
We’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?
So we all use some pasting service, but check out Gist, from Github. Each paste gets it’s own git repository. I’ve been using it all morning and love it.
Some cool features:
Just for the record, we LOVE Github and no we’re not paid to say that, it’s just really great.
Today 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.
Get it while it’s hot here.
My 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.
Oreilly 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 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.