With my new job, I am deep in the MS trenches (I miss you tux). I have been doing some work with Group Policies and wanted to try out this program called AdmX. AdmX allows you to parse through .adm files and export it as a tab delimited file. In trying to get this thing running, it keeps asking me to have .net Framework 1.0.5000 or 1.0.3705. I couldn’t find either, so I went into the config file (admX.exe.config) and just added a supportedRuntime element. It appears to work now, so I figured I would post what I did. Here’s my new config file.
I got this as an email forward from my friend Jeff. It seemed an appropriate posting for this politically charged atmosphere.
Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign that read “Vote Obama, I need the money.” I laughed.
Once in the restaurant my server had on a “Obama 08″ tie. Again I laughed as he had given away his political preference–just imagine the coincidence.
When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need–the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight.
I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I’ve decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful.
At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient deserved money more.
I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.
It seems like I am the only rails dev who uses windows. I guess it’s because I can get a blazing windows machine for $600 as opposed to the same mac for $3000. The one thing that I see that macs have over the windows environment is textmate, but it’s not worth $2450 for me to get it. I personally use Eclipse Ganymede with the RadRails plugin from aptana (along with subclipse for vc and mylyn for bug tracking integration with trac). The cool thing that textmate has that makes me jealous is the way it does code completion (I believe they are called snippets). Read the rest of this entry »
Due to the overwhelming response to another post, I have taken it upon myself to start up an Open Source Student Information System project. Fox-SIS will be a fork of a once-popular open source student information system.
I will need other people to help. In particular, I need a Graphic Designer (you don’t have to be very good, we just need a replacement logo), PHP coders of any skill level and people who could help with the documentation. Please use the comment form to express interest in participation. I will not display any comments such as these on the page, but will respond to them personally. Other comments will be displayed as normal.
The new website is www.fox-sis.com but it doesn’t have much content on it as of now. If you express interest in participating, please use the register link on fox-sis.com to create an account. I will give you permissions when I hear from you using a comment on here.
The main goal of fox-sis is to continue the old project with the old spirit of openness and community involvement without stepping on anybody’s toes. That’s why it will be especially important to respect the trademarks of others and the terms of the GPL. There have been a lot of forks of this system out there (and the system it is forked from), but my aim with this is not to make a profit, but rather just to help everyone out there who just wants things back to the way they used to be.
In case you have been living in a cave for the last 3 days, Google has come out with a new web browser called Chrome. Right now it is only in beta, but so far it I am very impressed. After only a day of playing around, here are my favorite features. Read the rest of this entry »
Running Debian Etch on my server seems at times like a gigantic step backward from the ubuntu server I used to run. But alas, it has been quite a learning experience. I just set up my server to run the No-IP dynamic update client (which is available as a package for ubuntu hardy), but it didn’t work with the included init script. Searching online I found very little help.