Month: February 2008
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Dog Tags
Tonight was a full lunar eclipse that was visible at the perfect time of the evening for me to enjoy it with my kids. So there we were – hanging out in the front yard with camera in hand waiting for the clouds to thin out a bit. I was holding the baby and Erica…
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Full Lunar Eclipse – Feb 20, 2008
Recently Erica has become very interested in all things astronomy. We took her to the library and picked up Charlie Brown’s Encyclopedia of Earth and Space – it’s a pretty large book filled with the state of the art science from 1978 (when it was published 😉 ) about space. For the last several weeks…
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Recursively Change Line Endings
So, very rarely I need to change the line endings for a large set of files scattered across a bunch of directories. Sometimes there are few enough files that I just do it manually, but today I really wanted to do a large batch of them recursively. I wound up using this in a terminal:…
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RMagick Ruby Gem on OS X Leopard
As I’ve been putting my dev environment back together on Leopard, I’ve been finding all kinds of things that don’t quite work right – see my earlier post on MySQL. The latest problem I’ve found occurs when attempting to gem install RMagick. I get this error: Can’t install RMagick 2.2.0. Can’t find Magick-config in /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/Users/kimball/bin/:/usr/local/mysql/bin…
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MySQL Install On OS X Leopard Fix
So, I finally took the plunge and installed Leopard on my MacBook Pro – I figured that by waiting I would avoid some of the icky problems that sometimes crop up with new OS releases. Unfortunately, I did not avoid the broken MySQL install problems that appear with Leopard. I looked around on the internet…