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rubyosa-0.4.0 Bus Error

Monday, October 6th, 2008

I was having some issues trying out the rubyosa gem, and found this useful japanese blog.
If you see an error like the following:

└──> rdoc-osa –name Adium

/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rubyosa-0.4.0/lib/rbosa.rb:530: [BUG] Bus Error

ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03) [universal-darwin9.0]

 

Abort trap

… when you are attempting to generate documentation, then you need to install an older version of the libxml-ruby gem, and modify rubyosa [...]

“Your wireless network has been compromised”

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

If you’re running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and you see a somewhat frightening and terse error message that says “Your wireless network has been compromised“, then you’ve probably entered into a world of annoyance. If you’re in the situation I was, this message begins to pop-up every few minutes. Every time it [...]

VMware Fusion 2.0 beta 1 tools and OpenSolaris 2008.05

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I had a small issue getting vmware tools from VMware 2.0 beta 1 working under OpenSolaris 2008.05. I don’t know if it’s an issue in previous versions of either software.
First, when installing OpenSolaris 2008.05, choose VMware setup options for “Solaris”, and either 32-bit or 64-bit depending on your preference. I wanted, 64-bit, but [...]

tar backup stupidity and limited space

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

So, pretend you have:

a new Mac laptop with a fast hard drive, but one that is smaller than all the data you need to backup
A backup hard drive you’ve used on Windows and Linux, but is formatted NTFS, and is much larger than your new laptop’s HD
You have files named on your system that needs [...]

SSL support for Apache in my prefix-portage overlay

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

I’m working on getting our Rails-based app, at work (OBT – obtech.net), working with SSL.
Since we all use OSX as our main dev boxen here, as well as Gentoo Linux machines, I long ago started hacking and helping on the Gentoo-Alt Prefix Portage project, so that I could help create one software repository we all [...]

Creating stream-able video

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

I spent much to much time trying to figure out the right combination of video/audio encodings that would would from an RTSP streaming server (went with a RealServer demo, for now) to a variety of clients (QuickTime Player, VLC, various phones, etceteras.)
First, VLC is a champ. Every time I tried a new streaming server, [...]

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