Act all suspicious.

Do Canadians finally have a feasible and fair option for DRM-free music downloads?

2011-01-27T01:02:00.001-08:00

Here is a very quick review of the music download service available in Canada.urMusic.ca- Is limited to Rogers Wireless customers (can only register if you have a Roger's phone number)- other features like selling tickets to concerts and events.- Appears that only the pay per song and pay per album downloads are DRM Free- Fairly good rates for per track download in Canadian dollars- Very

Calculating total interest accrued while paying down the simple interest loan periodically.

2009-11-17T22:39:00.000-08:00

I was unable to find a web service or calculator on any websites that had a simple interest calculator in which the total of the loan was being payed down regularly. I was forced to make one in Excel. There are plenty of amortization calculators out there that generate the schedule for a loan with compound interest, like a mortgage, but none that show the schedule for a simple interest loan,

New annoyances: Windows 7 and Bluetooth enabled devices.

2009-10-31T10:02:00.000-07:00

Thorough testing on my part has proven that Windows 7 can not receive large files, approximately anything larger than 225 KB, from some Bluetooth devices. In this case, my Nokia 6301 can not send to the "fsquirt.exe" utility on Windows 7. I tested this with 3 different machines running Windows 7 (6.01.7600), two laptops with built-in bluetooth and a desktop using a bluetooth dongle. The error

Using Apache ProxyPass to redirect requests to mongrel server obscuring the mongrel port and loading a default Ruby on Rails model.

2009-05-11T11:50:00.000-07:00

Must run mongrel_rails using sudo on Mac OS X Leopard Serverrails_app $ sudo mongrel_rails start --prefix /field_management_system -dApache setup:Create directive/"realm" in serveradmin, Add lines for ProxyPassReverse with BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3001/field_management_systemRails app configuration.In routes.rb add a regular route for events model. map.connect '', :controller =

Failed attempt to use Mac OS X Leopard stock installation of Ruby on Rails.

2009-02-26T18:14:00.000-08:00

Stock installation of RoR, if updated to Rails 2.2.2 fails because it breaks MySQL functionality. Using gem install mysql fails because the stock Ruby interpreter packaged with Xcode 3.0 is only 32 bit and the stock version of MySQL and its libraries for building mysql clients are 64 bit. Link to Chris Cruft's blog about MySQL gem problemsFaced the same error messages as in the blog above, and

Playing with SOAP in Ruby on Rails using WSDL Driver Factory

2009-02-23T23:53:00.001-08:00

-First, a little background on why I am using RoR and SOAP.When I helped design and build an inventory and booking system circa 2007, my role was basically systems/business analyst. I also provided the impetus that we build the system using tools beyond simple "procedural" PHP/javascript, and that we look for a web application technology platform which would allow us to rapidly build a system

How to use Ruby on Rails to integrate with a legacy database while leveraging scaffolding.

2009-02-20T09:34:00.000-08:00

I am trying to be as lazy as possible...rails_app $ rails independentreps -d mysqlEdit config/database.yml with specific database name, host, username, password. Add additional environment records if required. For example:development: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 database: indrep_development pool: 5 username: root password: pw host: localhosttest: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8

A quick update on installing and running VMware Server on Vista 32-bit

2009-02-15T21:34:00.000-08:00

I had only very minor experience with VMware, having only firsthand experience with it on an iMac with VMware Fusion beta installed. The iMac ran Mac OS X 10.4 and VMware Fusion was used to host a Windows XP guest OS. It ran very slowly, possibly due to the lack of Intel VT-x (Virtualization Technology) on the model of Intel Core 2 Duo. Also, the iMac only had 1 GB of RAM.In early February,