If you feel like you’re stuck and you need to change your life in a significant way maybe you should read Chris Guillebeau’s manifesto. I found it very inspiring and thought-provoking.
I highly recommend it.
A Brief Guide to World Domination
Read more about Chris and his incredible travel goal here.
Man, I hadn’t posted anything in a while.
Anyway, I was having trouble getting the DB2 Control Center (db2cc) to work on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy.) Whenever I tried to run db2cc all I was getting was a blank gray window and found that setting the following variable makes it work:
AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit
You can set this automatically by adding the following to your .bashrc or .profile file:
export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit
By the way, I found this quick solution on this forum. Hope this helps.
I just took a peek at the Ruby on Rails site and version 2.2 is almost out. Since I haven’t been using Ruby or Rails in a while I’ve noticed a lot of changes, so I think I’m gonna start playing with it again – specially since version 2.2 includes i18n, which is what I’ve been waiting for.
So, according to Rails’ creator, I need RubyGems 1.3.1 so I can start playing with Rails 2.2 RC2. Ok, I don’t have a problem with that. Let’s update RubyGems:
$ sudo gem update –system
Updating RubyGems
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
Nothing to update
Hmm. I’m pretty sure I don’t have the newest version, but I’ll check anyway just in case.
$ gem -v
1.1.1
I thought so. So how come I can’t update? After doing a google search I found I had to try this:
$ sudo gem install rubygems-update
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org/
Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.3.1
1 gem installed$ sudo update_rubygems
…
RubyGems installed the following executables:
/usr/local/bin/gem
If `gem` was installed by a previous RubyGems installation, you may need
to remove it by hand.
Let’s just do a quick check:
$ gem -v
1.3.1
There we go! Now we’re ready for Rails 2.2 RC2.
If you, like myself, are not one of the lucky people who attended the Radiohead show in Santa Barbara last August – and even if you did – then you should check out this story.
You can listen to the whole show online or download it if you subscribe to a podcast. So naturally I had to post this.
Enjoy!
If you installed DB2 Express-C 9.5 on Ubuntu and can’t create any databases because of the following error:
SQL1034C The database is damaged. All applications processing the database
have been stopped. SQLSTATE=58031
Try adding the following to the /home/db2inst1/.bashrc file:
export LC_ALL=C
This happened to me running Ubuntu in Spanish and the above environment variable fixed the problem. I can now create and use databases.
By the way, I found this solution here.
Just a quick tip. I’ve always complained that Windows doesn’t have the grep command but you can use the Windows find command the same way.
For example, in Linux you can do:
$ cat /etc/services | grep “http”
The equivalent in Windows would be:
c:\> type \Windows\system32\drivers\etc\services | find “http”
Try it.
A friend of mine sent me a link to a very interesting video clip on consumerism. The clip is only about 20 minutes long and I highly recommend it.
Here’s a teaser:
You can view the entire video online at The Story of Stuff website.
You can also download it here or order a DVD.
And if you want to know more about the topics discussed or want to learn about things you can do to contribute they have a resources page that can help you learn more.
Man, this video clip is just hilarious. They hit the bullseye. Enjoy.
A video by Devshop.
So I browsing the web and I stumbled upon the shoooes.net website. At first sight I didn’t know what it was, but after reading around the page it got my attention.
Shoes, a tiny toolkit, lets you create apps that can run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux/BSD using the Ruby language. You can download the toolkit, read a tutorial and download a book by its author, all from the website.
It looks promising. And since I’m learning Ruby I think I’ll check it out. And for those of you who have played with it, I’d like to know what you think of it.
So if you’re into Ruby check it out.
If you’ve ever gotten the “too many open files” error and tried to increase the open file limit for a certain user, you’ve probably seen the following solution on forums:
Edit the /etc/security/limits.conf file and add a new line to the end of the file like this:
myuser hard nofile 2048
Then you open up a new terminal session with myuser only to see that the limit hasn’t changed.
What gives?
I decided to add both hard and soft limits to the file, like this:
myuser hard nofile 2048
myuser soft nofile 2048
And that did the trick. Now every time I open a new terminal session I have a 2048 open file limit instead of the usual 1024.
I’m not sure if this is the best way to do it, though. If anybody knows a better way let me know.
