http://blog.shwango.com life, love and some other stuff... Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:51:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm sure the Amarok guys had good intentions with Amarok2, but I just don't like it. Actually I hate it and think it really sucks. Not intuitive at all - I just want to play my music. The "upgrade" is an unfortunate side effect of upgrading Ubuntu ... http://blog.shwango.com/2009/06/14/good-software-gone-bad/ Ah... yeah, now I remember... I do have a blog! I felt like dusting the blog off and posting again. Life sure gets busy when you have a kid! I had a grand plan to go back and add entries for the important dates - and maybe I still will, but ... http://blog.shwango.com/2009/05/03/wow-i-have-a-blog/ Jen said I was posting too much tech stuff and she's right.  Sorry about that, but that is what I tend to post about most...Anyway, the baby is doing great.  We're (most likely) having a boy according to the ultrasound.  It is quite an amazing thing to see this awesome ... http://blog.shwango.com/2008/06/08/wonderful-things-happening/ Once I got OS X booting on my Dell desktop, I thought I'd give it a try on the laptop, a Dell Latitude D600.  I read that OS X would indeed install on the D600, since it does have SSE2 - it's a Pentium M - using one of the OS X images ... http://blog.shwango.com/2008/06/08/os-x-on-a-dell-latitude-d600/ I've been using an Enermax Crystal aluminum keyboard for like a year now and love it.  Since I'll be working from home more once the baby's born, I'm trying to get my home office as productive (or more) than my work office - that means getting my computer up to snuff.  I've ... http://blog.shwango.com/2008/06/08/scissor-switch-is-where-its-at/ I created my "hackintosh" a few weeks ago on my Dell Dimension 9200.  The main reason was so I could check out TextMate - the editor most Rails guys seem to use.  I've been using NetBeans on Ubuntu for a while now and like it, but just wanted to give TextMate a ... http://blog.shwango.com/2008/06/07/starting-to-love-os-x/ Not exactly sure what caused it, but my server crashed last night around 6:15pm. Logs just have: Mar 5 18:13:50 [kernel] eth0: PCI Bus error 8290. Mar 5 18:13:51 [kernel] eth1: Tx timeout - resetting We've been cleaning up the server room and making some changes. One of the guys moved ... http://blog.shwango.com/2008/03/06/bummer-server-crash/ I wanted to post this before, but got busy and now I can't find the original post about this, but anyway... When doing network stuff in Ruby - using any Net:: libs - there's a little trick to trap for timeouts. You can't simply use "rescue" do handle it. ... http://blog.shwango.com/2008/03/06/ruby-timeouterror/ Jen's going on 11 weeks pregnant now! We got to hear the heartbeat today. It's all a bit scary, but so exciting! I'm quite the happy camper! http://blog.shwango.com/2008/02/25/woo-hoo-im-gonna-be-a-dad/ I've been using Ubuntu on my home, work and laptop boxes for months now.  At work I listen to music almost all the time and find xmms to be my player of choice.  I hate all the players that want to be my music manager, etc. - I just want ... http://blog.shwango.com/2007/11/29/ubuntu-xmms-and-key-bindings/