Monthly Archives: June 2008

misleading mongrel errors

Posted on June 18, 2008 by ward

So you’re happily developing a rails app, and for whatever reason need to restart your devel server. And then you get this (paths removed to improve readability): $ script/server => Booting Mongrel (use ‘script/server webrick’ to force WEBrick) => Rails … Continue reading →

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ftp.us.debian.org

Posted on June 4, 2008 by ward

$ host ftp.us.debian.org. ftp.us.debian.org has address 128.30.2.36 ftp.us.debian.org has address 64.50.238.52 ftp.us.debian.org has address 64.50.236.52 ftp.us.debian.org has address 35.9.37.225 $ telnet ftp.us.debian.org 80 Trying 35.9.37.225… Connected to ftp.us.debian.org. Escape character is ‘^]’. HEAD / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.0 200 OK Connection: close … Continue reading →

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NPR on ogg vorbis

Posted on June 1, 2008 by ward

WBUR, one of the two NPR stations in Boston now streams in unencumbered and patent-free Ogg Vorbis! Check out the WBUR listen page. Here’s the direct link to the m3u. Also see the FSF press release about this.

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