Clogging up the Web

I am nothing if not adventurous, so I decided to try an in-box upgrade of my laptop from Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) to 6.04 (Dapper Drake). Dapper Drake is due for final release in April, so I suppose it is asking for trouble doing a dist-upgrade with apt-get 3 months before that release.
But, I gave […]

Breezy Badger’s standard Ruby package is version 1.8.2, which means you will probably want to download and install from source, particularly if you want to use Rails. I downloaded version 1.8.4 and did the usual ./configure; make; make install. That worked. Then I tried installing RubyGems. I ran into a problem with zlib.
To get around […]

Some people think blogs are just plain stupid. They think they are vehicles of vanity or simply inane brain dumps. To paraphrase my own personal blog, they just clog up the Internet.
Well, there are of course many examples of bad blogs out there; the ones that don’t follow the “rules”. For example, I could write […]