UPDATE: Thanks to Ryan, Ant and Fern for the tips. With that in mind I found an online Slicehost tutorial that contained the steps and explained how to install ruby via apt-get, then get the latest rubygems, install that manually, ran gem to update itself, then run gem to install rails – as suggested. The steps I took from that page:
The Glider: A Universal Hacker Emblem
There has long been a movement in the geek community to expunge the negative thoughts attached to the word hacker, the image to the right The Glider, being one of the latest and most visible. In the beginning there were hackers (people who worked on computers, programmed and made things work) and crackers (people who would use computers for nefarious purposes, crimes, viruses, etc), these were two distinct camps, with some miscreants jumping the fence back and forth to confuse the issue. Regardless, somewhere along the way popular culture (movies, news, your teachers probably) began to equate hacking as being the bad, crime ridden activity that cracker was supposed to cover. I think it’s a moot point now, as even my Dad was shocked when he learned my annual DefCon trip is billed as “largest hacking conference in the world”. I gave him the above explanation, but I’m unsure if he really believes it. Regardless, the original “How to become a hacker” paper written by Eric S Raymond is always cited as the quintessential word on the use of the word hacker. I found it mirrored online, and it’s a worthwhile read if you have any interest in the topic, or want to cement your own views of your hobby. For now, if you don’t want to read the entire verbiage, here’s the intro to learn and take with you.
On the monit mailing list today someone asked how they could monitor a process that didn’t have a pidfile associated with it. Without thinking I jotted this down, there’s likely a better way, but this should work and may be all I need for some init.d scripts for a couple of apps on ramon (the home server). In the the beginning of the startup script, define the PIDFILE with the path and the cmd followed by the pid suffix and then just dump the PID number from the ps output into it:
I thought the days of crashing IE with just some malformed code were over, apparently not. I just takes a misplaced wildcard in a style declaration to send it down.
<style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input /></table>
This took out IE on my work computer which is fully patched. I’ve read that people running IE under Wine in Linux have it crash as well, so it’s certainly app dependant. For those of you playing at home, just click here to try it for yourself. Extra credit if you actually save the file on your windows machine and then try to open it within Windows Explorer! Enjoy.
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