fleshyorgans

Not sure what this is. Looks evil. Tse-tse fly? Mutant horsefly?

That’s the way the cookie crumbles. That’s the way the bee bumbles. That’s the way the football fumbles. That’s the way the monkey tumbles. That’s the way the scrabble jumbles. That’s the way the hobo mumbles. That’s the way the drunkard stumbles. That’s the way the old man grumbles. That’s the way the dore Dumbles. [...]

So, FWIW, apparently the latest Wine update to 0.9.41 breaks IEs4Linux. Symptoms: IE runs but a) displays only blank pages b) doesn’t have toolbars c) does not let you enter URLs in the address bar, only displaying the letter ‘h’ Per this forum thread, I downgraded back to 0.9.38 and everything is hunky dory again. [...]

The following attempts to kill based on a pattern you specify. I wrote this because our network gets messed up while Amarok is attempting to load files, which causes it to hang and leave various pipes open. By specifying “amarok” where it says “pattern”, below, I can kill all the open Amarok processes in one [...]

I’m makin’ some beer! Got a kit from N for my birthday — best gift evar! I”m totally impatient for the next couple weeks to pass so I can drink it! For the beerbrewers, this is 7 Bridges Red Ale. The O.G. on it is 1.045 (adjusted) — which means, to my understanding, that it’s [...]

Just so you know, if you need to write a test for something that spawns a thread, and that thread interacts with the database, you need to specify the following in your test file: self.use_transactional_fixtures = false Otherwise, fixtures.rb sets a mutex and a transaction in the database, preventing other transactions from working — as [...]

If you’re on a unix system as your desktop, you should install Preload. It readahead caches programs and program files in memory for faster execution. Sourceforge link or ‘apt-get install preload’ on Debian-based systems, such as Ubuntu. Not sure if it’ll compile on a Mac. Also… There is a package called “tilda” that’s pretty sweet. [...]