The Zach Chadwick

Ubuntu 10.10 Nicer Console

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:16:09 -0500

I posted a while ago about changing the resolution of the linux console for my VirtualBox machine. Year ago (seems like just yesterday) you could hack on “vga=xxx” in order to change the resolution. Then around Ubuntu 10.04 (maybe even 9.10) there was a new way which didn’t work with VirtualBox at the time. That prompted this:

Quick Way to Have a Nicer Console

Now that Ubuntu 10.10 is out and popular, I’ve finally gotten around to running it on my VirtualBox. Well, it’s changed again, and even easier now to set a better resolution for the console.

Changing Virtual Console Resolution in Ubuntu 10.10

Works great in VirtualBox 3.2.12on my Mac. Hope it does for you too.

Salmon With Scalloped Sweet Potatoes

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:06:58 -0500

Salmon With Scalloped Sweet Potatoes:

Made this last night. Seems to work well, but might be a little sweet for some.

The Monkeys You Ordered

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:00:11 -0500

themonkeysyouordered:

Here are the monkeys you ordered.

Jakub Kuźma - Serve local directory using Rack::Static

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:06:48 -0500

Jakub Kuźma - Serve local directory using Rack::Static:

Well, this is convenient!

SQLCipher, OS X, and -arch madness

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:08:59 -0500

LTCOMPILE_EXTRAS=”-arch i386 -arch x86_64” make

OS X ships a FAT libsqlite3.dylib. It includes both x86_64 and i386 (and ppc7400) code. I’m trying to write a ruby extension that can call the new sqlite3_key() methods from C, rather than just going through “PRAGMA” in Ruby.

Getting my new library to link to the new SQLCipher build has been driving me up the wall. Luckily, there it is! Add both architectures in the LTCOMPILE_EXTRAS environment and run make.

Architectures in the fat file: .libs/libsqlite3.dylib are: i386 x86_64

Of course, now how do I figure out how to get a sqlite3* in C when my database connection is actually being initialized from Ruby!?

Snowy night at the park.

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:27:00 -0500

Snowy night at the park.

Tow-Zone and Hydrant: School St.

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:37:00 -0500

Tow-Zone and Hydrant:

School St.

Foot.

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:41:00 -0500

Foot.

Warm January 1, 2011 melting a lot of the Christmas Blizzard.

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:27:30 -0500

Warm January 1, 2011 melting a lot of the Christmas Blizzard.

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:50:00 -0500

Taken with instagram

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 15:49:30 -0500

Taken with instagram

Nice Catch: Maddie and the Squeaky Football in the November...

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:20:00 -0500

Nice Catch:

Maddie and the Squeaky Football in the November afternoon sun.

Oxford Leaves: The best street in town.

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:53:00 -0500

Oxford Leaves:

The best street in town.

Boston (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:50:10 -0500

Boston (Taken with instagram)

Absolute Positioning inside Relative Positioning This drove me...

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:33:54 -0500

Absolute Positioning inside Relative Positioning

This drove me crazy tonight. I have an HTML table that is inside it’s own wrapper so it can scroll around the page sorta in it’s own frame. I wanted to attach little popups to individual lines, but they kept ending up acting like they were fixed to the window, rather than my frame.

Turns out, even though it doesn’t affect the layout in my case, I needed to specify position: relative on the top parent.

Shoulda known.

Sampson’s Birthday Party

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:46:08 -0500

Sampson’s Birthday Party

-moz-background-size

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:47:01 -0400

-moz-background-size:

Very excited to see that everybody is supporting some variant of the background-size property in CSS. One quirk currently in Firefox 3.6.11.

If you specify the background-image as an inline style in the tag, but the background-size property within your stylesheet, it doesn’t work.

WebKit (Safari & Chrome) seem to figure it out.

Play with me!

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:50:46 -0400

Play with me!

"What we’re suggesting is that something that doesn’t really interact with anything is changing..."

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:09:59 -0400

““What we’re suggesting is that something that doesn’t really interact with anything is changing something that can’t be changed.””

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jQuery: ajaxManager3

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:51:00 -0400

jQuery: ajaxManager3:

A great little plugin that lets you decide how your ajax requests are sent. Includes support for queuing, aborting, all kinds of callbacks etc.

One hint: If you are kicking off a subsequent request from within the success() handler of a previous request, put it in a setTimeout(). Otherwise, it won’t run.