Monthly Archives: August 2009

I want to join any class action against Nvidia

8/30/2009 – 12:02 pm

If such a thing happens, I want to be a participant. My Dell XPS 1530m which shipped with the faulty part, a G84 based 8400GS-M, is starting to show signs of failure. Dell is simply offering to trade me another broken part under warranty, as all G84 GPUs are faulty by design. I want to [...]

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Wachovia dumps Opera support, I dump Wachovia

8/29/2009 – 11:32 am

With Opera 10 just released days ago, I must say you’re severely incompetent if you can’t support a modern Internet browser, but support AOL’s variation of a Web browser by name. Actually, the former is true irrespective of the latter. Starting October 7, 2009, you will not be able to access Wachovia Online Services unless [...]

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decorators for ActiveRecord model attributes

8/26/2009 – 3:36 pm

Something I’ve always felt was missing from ActiveRecord is the ability to abstract out presentation logic for attributes. For example, you may want to be able to get at an attribute called full_name, but store the constituent parts, first_name and last_name, in your relational database. Thankfully, I am not alone. There’s a ticket on this [...]

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Amarok 1.4 for Jaunty

8/9/2009 – 1:20 pm

If you can’t stand the new Amarok 2, maybe because it crashes constantly, no longer seems to understand m3u files from gnump3d, or hangs for an inordinate length of time when expanding the search results list from shoutcast, the functional 1.4 release is available as a package now. A big thank you to Bogdan Butnaru [...]

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Obama sold us out

8/6/2009 – 9:30 am

What else is new. In other news, today is Thursday: Pressed by industry lobbyists, White House officials on Wednesday assured drug makers that the administration stood by a behind-the-scenes deal to block any Congressional effort to extract cost savings from them beyond an agreed-upon $80 billion. If legislation passes, we’ll see what happens to that [...]

By jasonb | Posted in Politics | Comments (0)

Rails serving an alternate public_path

8/2/2009 – 12:28 pm

The introduction of the new Rails.public_path setter seems useful only for page caching particulars. If you want to get Mongrel via script/server to serve up static content from an alternate root on request, you actually need to monkey patch your way into the Rack stuff, specifically Rails::Rack::Static. module Rails module Rack class Static def initialize(app) [...]

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