http://www.frederico-araujo.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:13:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Firefox does a lot of IO to the disk even thou you have lots of spare Ram, due to Sqlite, Bookmarks, History and Cache. To make Firefox faster is to store the whole profile folder into a Ram Disk. RamDisk in Linux are called TmpFS. You can also use shared memory folder ... http://www.frederico-araujo.com/2008/12/18/blazing-fast-firefox-using-osx-ramdisk/ The OSX file vault feature will only let you activate it on your current home folder if you have a HFS+ case-insensitive file system. It will not let you activate it on a current HFS case-sensitive. But there is a trick, when creating a "new" clean user it will allow you ... http://www.frederico-araujo.com/2008/11/04/getting-filevault-on-a-hfs-case-sensitive-filesystem/ First of all, what do I mean by safe sleep, fast sleep or hibernate? Safe sleep is the way OSX sleeps to RAM and as well create a sleepimage (which is the size of your RAM). In case you run out of battery, so you can still resume from the image ... http://www.frederico-araujo.com/2008/11/01/safesleep-fastsleep-or-hibernate-osx-leopard/ I just found the new Virtual Machine Software released by SUN Microsystems. It's called VirtualBox. http://virtualbox.org VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of Guest Operating systems. Im running windows XP on my macbook pro and it seems ok, thou OSX is really slow, ... http://www.frederico-araujo.com/2008/11/01/a-new-virtual-machine-by-sun-free/ Suppose you have a Model called Article that contains a text field and a format field. You would like to use haml, textile or HTML to edit your Article from the admin interface. create_table "articles", :force => true do |t| t.string "title" ... http://www.frederico-araujo.com/2008/08/19/a-little-haml-tutorial-on-how-to-render-different-formats/ To install the great Mod_Rails on Gentoo linux it's as easy as 5 steps. Since you are Gentoo user, i don't need to go to details. You know what you doing. ;) 1. Recompile Apache non-threaded add this to /etc/portage/package.use www-servers/apache -threads and this to /etc/make.conf APACHE2_MPMS="prefork" 2. Re emerge apache # emerge -va apache 3. Passenger is in ... http://www.frederico-araujo.com/2008/08/06/easy-installing-passenger-mod_rails-on-gentoo/ The other day I had to set up a VPS machine at Slicehost for a client on a tight budget. I paid for 256mb VPS based on Gentoo, my distro of choice. But 256MB of ram? what can you do with just 256? Normally a default 256mb linux machine would not handle ... http://www.frederico-araujo.com/2008/07/03/very-low-memory-vps-linux-for-rails/ Tommy has just released an new mysql-ruby package. Actually 2 of them: mysql-ruby-2.7.5 and mysql-ruby-2.8pre2 They are Ruby 1.9 compatible Requirements * MySQL 5.0.51a * Ruby 1.8.6, 1.9.0 here is the link http://tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/ Great Job http://www.frederico-araujo.com/2008/03/07/ruby-mysql-now-ruby-19-compatible/ Encrypt folders in Mac OSX with encfs OSX already include the File Vault functionality that allows you to encrypt your whole Home Folder. Thou the storage overhead is so small, the time to encrypt it the first time is very very long. if you have Videos, and big files, it takes even longer. What ... http://www.frederico-araujo.com/2007/12/17/encrypt-folders-in-mac-osx-with-encfs/