Category Archives: Linux

rQuote – Ruby on Rails Stock Quote Plugin

By John | Published: August 29, 2008
I merged some stock quoting stuff I had into a Rails plugin today. If you’d like to be able to simply grab real time stock quotes in your Rails app, this will do the job. Pretty much any stock symbol will work and you can enter as many as you’d like, you’ll get [...]
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Moved Hosts again..

By John | Published: July 6, 2008
Moved hosts again.  Taking it all in house.  Yup, this fine blog of mine (and lots of other crap) is now being served off my home brew server sitting behind the TV(also acting as a fileserver).   If there is one thing I freaking hate, it is moving a Wordpress install.  Something always messes up and, [...]
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How to: Nginx, FCGI, PHP, MySQL, Ruby On Rails, Rewrite

By John | Published: February 12, 2008
In a previous post I talked about how I just set up my new Slicehost account using Nginx to power this blog (Wordpress – PHP) and some Rails Apps. Here’s a mini how to on how I got the whole thing working, as its not quite as easy as it sounds. First though – Why [...]
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Moved Hosts

By John | Published: February 1, 2008
Well I’ve finished consolodating my two hosting accounts, one at Godaddy (cheap Linux hosting) and my shared Rails hosting at OcsSolutions (which was very good for shared Rails host) to a 512 mb Ubuntu 7.10 ’slice’ at Slicehost.  Was gonna go straight Debian, but figured what the hell.  For any of you who don’t know, [...]
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Weekly Roundup

By John | Published: January 28, 2008
Heres the week in review: -Linux Mint home networking is now done and working beautifully. Had some trouble getting the onboard Via Chrome9 Video working correctly, but I followed the instructions here(compiling it from source) and everything was great. I wanted to use the OpenChrome driver instead of the VESA driver because the OpenChrome [...]
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Linux Mint Media Server – Day 1 – Samba/iTunes Sharing

By John | Published: January 23, 2008
First I apologize, I’m watching Rambo III as I write this (preparing for the new Rambo {!!!!!}coming out this Friday) so I may screw some of this up. This all started with a couple of great deals I saw on slickdeals.net. 1. Got 5 x 1024mb sticks of DDR2 667 Ram for $7 shipped after rebate. 2. [...]
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