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’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 [...]

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 [...]

In college when using linux I did not care about stability at all. I cared about baking up data of course since I was working on school projects, but due to having school labs with linux, a work computer with linux and multiple computers of my own I could care less about distro switching and [...]

I realized I wasn’t posting as often as I’d like because every post was shooting over to the Foresight planet. Now I’ve categorized better so that this doesn’t happen as often. Hopefully this will mean more posts!

The emacs current in foresight :1-devel has support for loading packages dropped into the /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d directory. This makes packaging emacs modes a bit easier. The only other package I have made is the nxml package in my repo. This way any emacs-mode packages we make can simply drop a file in site-start.d and have emacs [...]

This is disgusting. I hate when the market can’t function without the richer party pulling crap like this and turning the tables. Why the Nigerian government would rather put a non-current OS on the laptops that their students will receive is beyond me. Students will learn a lot more on computers that allow them to [...]

So i got my blog added to the foresight planet!
Just for a quick introduction: My name is Christopher Giroir and I’m a programmer at Berklee College of Music in Boston MA. I mainly do web programming (Mostly in tcl and php) and we do use lots of open source technologies which is cool. My other [...]