Monthly Archive for August, 2008

Virtues of Programmer

Published
by
Cheba
on August 22, 2008
in io, personal and programming
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Saltillo - A hair on the head of John the Baptist

Published
by
Cheba
on August 18, 2008
in arts and music
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I'm totally in love with track.

Present

Published
by
Cheba
on August 15, 2008
in hardware, music and personal
. 2 Comments


Photo by quakebum2k

The Sun gifted me glorious headphones. Sony MDR V700DJ. Sound is wonderful. Fit superbly. Thanks a lot!

Site5 offers Rails hosting

Published
by
Cheba
on August 13, 2008
in computers, internet and ruby & rails
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Well, basically that’s all they do.
They have ruby, rubygems and a few gems installed. Also they have a control panel for managing ruby stuff. Have RubyGems manager. But it’s unable to list installed gems, unable to install gems. It’s completely broken. You have to hack a lot in terminal to have an opportunity to install and use other gems.
Next, they have a section for managing rails apps. It can create a new rails app. And… And that’s all. It can not even start that app. It doesn’t generates deploy config. It’s just useless.
BTW, they don’t even think about running mongrels/thins/ebbs/whatever. They are thinking about a single instance on fastcgi.
Next, support. They’re very polite but ignorant. “Is your computer turned on?”. As a solutions they give links to forums where users write “guides” and nothing from site5 itself.

Conclusion: get a slice for same money instead. You’ll be pleased.
BTW, with any VPS you’ll get an opportunity to run not only Rails apps but virtually anything. Like Merb apps.

Nency Sinatra - Bang Bang

Published
by
Cheba
on August 11, 2008
in arts and music
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I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight

Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down.

Seasons came and changed the time
When I grew up, I called him mine
He would always laugh and say
"Remember when we used to play?"

Bang bang, I shot you down
Bang bang, you hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, I used to shoot you down.

Music played, and people sang
Just for me, the church bells rang.

Now he's gone, I don't know why
And till this day, sometimes I cry
He didn't even say goodbye
He didn't take the time to lie.

Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down...