Acerbic Resonance

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Month: February 2008

  • Dog Tags

    Tonight was a full lunar eclipse that was visible at the perfect time of the evening for me to enjoy it with my kids.  So there we were – hanging out in the front yard with camera in hand waiting for the clouds to thin out a bit.  I was holding the baby and Erica…

  • Full Lunar Eclipse – Feb 20, 2008

    Recently Erica has become very interested in all things astronomy.  We took her to the library and picked up Charlie Brown’s Encyclopedia of Earth and Space – it’s a pretty large book filled with the state of the art science from 1978 (when it was published 😉 ) about space.  For the last several weeks…

  • Recursively Change Line Endings

    So, very rarely I need to change the line endings for a large set of files scattered across a bunch of directories.  Sometimes there are few enough files that I just do it manually, but today I really wanted to do a large batch of them recursively.  I wound up using this in a terminal:…

  • RMagick Ruby Gem on OS X Leopard

    As I’ve been putting my dev environment back together on Leopard, I’ve been finding all kinds of things that don’t quite work right – see my earlier post on MySQL. The latest problem I’ve found occurs when attempting to gem install RMagick.  I get this error:  Can’t install RMagick 2.2.0. Can’t find Magick-config in /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/Users/kimball/bin/:/usr/local/mysql/bin…

  • MySQL Install On OS X Leopard Fix

    So, I finally took the plunge and installed Leopard on my MacBook Pro – I figured that by waiting I would avoid some of the icky problems that sometimes crop up with new OS releases.  Unfortunately, I did not avoid the broken MySQL install problems that appear with Leopard. I looked around on the internet…