August 2006 Archives

Download ‘Turn It Back’ by GoodBooks

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Anna's (formerly with CNUK) boys have put out a new no-charge download in a DRM-free format on their website. It's not free culture, so don't go remixing it or anything ;)

All your remixes are belong to Columbia Records and all that.

They're touring around at the moment - go and see them and support the efforts of ex-CNUK people :)

Help buy Eric Raymond an iPod!

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It seems Eric needs someone to send him a virtual hug, by way of an iPod. He can plug it into his GNU/Linux computer and he'll see just how well free software can work with his new toy. Maybe he'll even add support for it in Fetchmail.

The remainder of the money will be split between Rockbox and the Free Software Foundation.

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Setting rails root

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<johnl> hey matt, do you remember how to tell rails that it's hosted in a subdirectory of the root
<mattl> nope. not ever done that.
<johnl> ah: ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root
<johnl> in environment.rb
<mattl> so that's if i wanted to have http://mattl.co.uk/railsforum/ instead of http://railsforum.mattl.co.uk/ ?
<johnl> yer

Ever wondered why I never got married?

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Weed

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Weed is a statistics application, and it is MIT-licensed free software. As such, you are free to do whatever you like with the source code; however, we can't guarantee that it will work on your machine.

Build the Village

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Build the Village
LEGO + Portmeirion + The Prisoner = Build The Village!