Valefor

Neck of State. Pretty awesome.

I was setting up my linode tonight and I was having lots of trouble installing the right postgresql gem, getting it unpacked and working in a clean rails app.
I finally managed to do it correctly. First of all the correct gem seems to be “pg”. It’s the most recently updated one in the gems listing [...]

I used to be REALLY excited about the Open Moko phones. Once it finally got released (in this semi-user friendly setting, not JUST developer models) it became not only very overpriced for the hardware (compared to other offerings) but the software is severely lacking to begin with. I am keeping my eye on it, though.
Then [...]

So recently my company bought some javascript code and we wanted to read through it and make sure nothing fishy was going on. Of course it was obfuscated using some code that starts out with:
eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,r){
Googling I found this that shows how just adding
eval = alert;
above the code makes your browser spit out the code. Some [...]

For the first time in long time, I actually cared about a candidate and I can’t be happier that he’s elected. Let’s hope change can start that helps the United States get out of one of the worst periods of our history.

I can has votes? Yes I can. Showed up at 6:55 not knowing what to expect since I have not voted in Brookline before and was met with a line of people. At 7:45 I submitted my ballot to the big black box and left. Some were saying this was a very high turnout and [...]

I’m getting disappointed reading the current news coming out of the OLPC camp. The reason I supported the project (and forked over my $400) was for two reasons. 1) I agree with education being the answer to most of the world’s problems and 2) I support open software. This project seemed to endorse both. I [...]

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1241234
What kind of moron do you have to best to proclaim that your disc encryption won’t be broken for 10 years. The model of DRM is retarded. It’s not security. You don’t walk around giving criminals your lock and your key to your house hidden in a haystack and say ‘Ha Ha try to break [...]

So I’m in the process of geeking out my olpc and ran into a couple of annoying things. First I couldn’t get epiphany to install cause of some weird redhat-artwork and redhat-logos conflict. Google searching didn’t bring up anything that helped but I eventually found the answer. the “fedora-logos” packages provides a good version of [...]

My OLPC was ordered on Nov 12th and was shipped out yesterday! The bad news is that it’s scheduled for delivery on Friday the 21st. I leave for my parent’s house Thurday night the 20th. I won’t be back until Sunday the 23rd at night! Oh well…. it will be sitting at my apartment waiting [...]