October 2007
9 posts
rmagick / imagemagick RHEL4 and font error pain
If your working on RedHat enterprise 4, trying to install rmagick and you get an error like this :: Magick::ImageMagickError (unable to read font `/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019003l.pfb'): try installing urw-fonts. That is all.
Soldering HOWTO
Hack-A-Day has a great little article on the basics of soldering. Check it out, here
embed shared documents with edocr
I’m not much for re-canning Techcrunch posts, but edocr seems pretty neat. Check out this Vi cheat sheet.
rails on fink
I should have really taken better notes as I got setup using fink, but here’s a braindump of what I needed for rails to work for me. Note, rmagick and me are not near as angry with each other as we were under macports. Install Fink Go Here - You should be able to figure out the install. Set it to unstable
# Edit /sw/etc/fink.conf # set Trees line Trees: local/main stable/main...
macports to fink switcheroo
I’ve been a pretty happy user of MacPorts/DarwinPorts for the past couple years, and all was good. I could install all the UNIX goodness to run a rails stack and have most of the network/security apps I was used to from the Linux world. But, recently I stuck in a dynamic library situation with ImageMagick and the rmagick ruby gem that was causing me a lot of grief. So, I removed ports and my...
Rails Envy: Rails vs. .NET - rematch
It’s the 9th and last video in the series, but you can order a DVD through the rails envy site.
Removing macports
From a mailing list entry by William Davis, :: sudo rm -rf \ /opt/local \ /Applications/MacPorts \ /Library/Tcl/macports1.0 \ /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* \ /Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup Why? Well if like me you run into some strange OS X dynamic linking issues and want to reinstall all your ports, or if you want to try out fink and make sure you...
Photo Carving for Dummies
Go about 1/3 of the way in and watch the remove a person from the photo example. It’s not perfect, but it’s impressive how easy it is to do. I just tried it on the site, and it is really that easy to remove stuff from a photo. While it’s not undetectable, it definitely makes for a printable picture without that guy you didn’t invite to the party.
Rails Envy: Rails vs. Coldfusion
The 2nd to last video in the series. It speaks pretty well for itself.