Playing With the Pogoplug

I purchased a Pogoplug device last week. I have been playing with it for a couple of days. Being a tinkerer, I kept it in it’s out of the box configuration for nearly an hour. I unboxed it (sorry, no unboxing video, although it is packaged quite nicely), plugged it into my router, power, and [...]

No More Sad Mac!

Two and a half years ago I popped into the Apple store in Des Moines and walked out with a 1.5ghz G4 Mac Mini. It wasn’t a rash purchase. I had planned on buying that particular model. It took over desktop duties from my SUSE 9.x Linux box I had built a couple of years [...]

Hand cart on the (Ruby on) Rails

In my previous post I detailed my problems getting NetBeans 6.0 to use the native Ruby installation on OS X Leopard. So, we pick up the story with that issue resolved.

Ok, time to create a new Rails project and get started. I go through the standard steps in NetBeans and am informed that there is [...]