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01Dec Upgrading to Ruby 1.8.6 on Red Hat

Excuse me while I get my inner geek on.
I had Red Hat system that needed to be upgrade from running Ruby 1.8.5 to Ruby 1.8.6.  Unfortunately, Red Hat really lags in releasing RPM’s for many packages, and Ruby is one of the packages.
Now I have drunk the Red Hat RPM Kool-aid.  IMHO using RPM’s on [...]

19Sep My CyberpowerPC Experience Part 1

I have read MANY advertisements for Cyberpowerpc.com, though I have never paid much attention to them.  I generally buy high-end Dell PC’s, or I build my own.  I read MaximumPC magazine religously and I was surprised to see the high marks they gave the CyberPower Gamer Ultimate SLI QUAD.  I currently have an aging home [...]

12Sep Ode to WordPress

I have really enjoyed my blogging experience to date.  I have installed WordPress many times in the past, but someone else set the site up.  When my friend Matt built my hockey team website (tnt-hockey.com) with WordPress, I figured it was time to learn how to USE  WordPress (You know this if you have been [...]

06Sep Iphone 3G vs. AT&T Tilt

I admit it, I am a phone geek.  I love my phone and the accessibility a well designed phone gives me and the productivity lifts I enjoy from said phone.  I have been using an AT&T Tilt aka: 8925 aka: HTC Kaiser.  The stock windows mobile 6.0 ROM is really quite terrible, but with a [...]