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My wife has a Google G1 phone from T-Mobile and she couldn’t get it to turn on the other day. It was stuck at a screen with the Android logo on the front and pressing any buttons would not resolve the issue. I decided to remove the battery from the G1 cell phone to make…
It can be a pain to find older versions of PostgreSQL for Windows so I posted this one in particular. Thanks for Alex for locating it. PostgreSQL 8.3.6 One click installer for Windows
To get detailed information about a Linux PID you can use the strace command. If strace is not installed it can be installed via yum using the command below. Strace Install: bash yum install strace Below is a sample output from using the strace command on a Litespeed web server process.
Starting ruby on rails in development mode with Litespeed is easy. You need to make sure that your database.yml is configured to handle development mode as well. Follow the steps below to start Litespeed running Ruby on Rails in development mode. Please note both cofiguration settings listed in step one which include setting this to…
When I downloaded the following file with Chrome: msysGit-fullinstall-1.6.1-preview20090217.exe I get this error when i double click it: “Non a 7-zip archive.” Works fine with Firefox 3. This is probably the case with all .exe files from the msysGit Google Code site.
Downloading Flash movies from any web site is easy using FireFox with the FlashGot plugin. Once installed you will be able to download any Flash movie with ease and then once downloaded use any number of applications to convert to whatever format you want. To accomplish downloading a Flash movie and converting to .mp4 format…
When attempting to install the Ruby JSON gem on Windows you are most likely going to get an error similar to the below. The trick is to instead install json_pure gem using the syntax listed below the error. Error: bash C:\>gem install json Building native extensions. This could take a while… ERROR: Error installing json:…
To generate Rdoc HTML documentation files for your Rails project, run: ruby rake doc:app This will create the following directory structure in your #{RAILS_ROOT}/doc/app directory: classes (dir) files (dir) created.rid fr_class_index.html fr_file_index.html fr_method_index.html index.html rdoc-style.css Here are some the other RDoc related rake tasks (listed by running rake -T) ruby rake doc:app …
This works for .html.erb files: ruby <% begin %> <% if current_user.is_super_admin? %> <p> this block will be commented out</p> <% end %> <% end %> ‘causing a section to not be rendered’ , you would want to do <% if false %> .. <% end %>