Category Archives: Unix

I suspect this may be true

Posted on 2/11/2005 by Arthur

It’s almost always a permissions problem. Seriously.

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Ruby, Ruby, Ruby Baby

Posted on 2/8/2005 by Arthur

Wow! My plea for Ruby On Rails help on the TextDrive Forum is currently the number one result when Googling Ruby-On-Rails OS-X. I haven’t got it sorted yet, by the way. Can anyone spot where I’m going wrong?

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Fedora

Posted on 5/5/2004 by Arthur

Since I bought P. a new ThinkPad and regained possession of my ancient 390E, I’ve decided to rid my house of Windows 98 and dip my toe in the Linux pool. I used Nicholas Petreley’s Official Fedora Companion which comes … Continue reading →

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Bumpy Road to OS X

Posted on 12/17/2002 by Arthur

Jeffrey Zeldman points to a discussion at MacCentral forum as justifying Apple’s decision to extend the life of OS 9 "a bit longer". As I read the discussion, these people have no intention of ever switching to OS X, Quark … Continue reading →

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Reports of Its Death have Been Exaggerated

Posted on 12/15/2002 by Arthur

Apple has evidently backed down from its plan to have all its systems boot only OS X come January (via [lomo]blog). “To accommodate a minority of our pro customers still running Mac OS 9 applications such as QuarkXPress, Apple will … Continue reading →

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