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July 23, 2006
GoDaddy scam
GoDaddy's renewal prices are too high for private registrations.
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Posted by wincent at 11:36 AM
July 18, 2006
Ruby on Rails
I've spent today getting to know Ruby on Rails and I must say I am very impressed with two things about it so far.
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Posted by wincent at 5:22 PM
July 13, 2006
Involuntary reboot log #1
Resetting the IRL counter to "celebrate" the first kernel panic on the new iMac (yes, that's irony). No idea what the cause was. Newly installed software that was running at the time included a custom Intel build I had just made of MLDonkey and Civilization IV. One of the first things I did after recovering from the panic is trash Civilization IV, just in case — it's only a game — and if I get another panic while mlnet is running I'll be trashing that too and never using it again. This machine is far too important to my work to take any risks. Paranoia is the order of the day.
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Posted by wincent at 12:32 PM
July 11, 2006
Stupid eBay Spain
A little over a month ago I sold something via eBay Spain and the winning bidding refused to pay. I went through the dispute process — dispute is "disputa" in Spanish — and after over a month of trying to get payment decided that it was fruitless to continue.
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Posted by wincent at 10:10 PM
July 9, 2006
MediaWiki drops PHP 4 support
Wasn't too happy to read this:This is the first version of MediaWiki to require PHP 5.... (PHP 5.0 is no longer maintained; all PHP 5.0 users should upgrade to a current 5.1 release to ensure they have all security fixes.)
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Posted by wincent at 2:35 PM
