In my search for a Basecamp alternative - because it’s not free, and I’d prefer something I can host on my own server - I have come across an excellent piece of software called ProjectPier. This is a branch from ActiveCollab — an open source project that later became a commercial product. ProjectPier is simple, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A free, self-hosted, and open source alternative to Basecamp", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/07/a-free-self-hosted-and-open-source-alternative-to-basecamp/" });
This falls under “Why Didn’t I Think of This Before?”
Not being able to remain focused and get things done while working on a computer is common. There’s a countless number of things to do even offline. You can, and probably do:
Organize folders/desktop/etc
Finally get around to actually opening up an ebook you’ve downloaded
Customize your desktop (and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Simple and Effective Productivity Tip When Working on the Computer", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/07/simple-and-effective-productivity-tip-when-working-on-the-computer/" });
Hardware acceleration is not available in fullscreen mode for Linux yet, at least not with Adobe’s Flash 9.x plugin. This isn’t much of a problem with small videos, but it results in choppy, sluggish playback in fullscreen mode. Fortunately, there’s a simple way around this while we wait for Adobe to address the issue.
Workaround
If [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to Speed Up Fullscreen Flash Playback in Linux", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/07/how-to-speed-up-fullscreen-flash-playback-in-linux/" });
The following video is a talk by David Heinemeier Hansson (usually referred to simply as DHH) given at Stanford University’s Kresge Auditorium, for the day-long ‘08 Startup School conference.
The talk is primarily centered on building a profitable Internet business, and the whole VC/Startup hype currently sliding through the interwebs. DHH gives good points for those [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Secret to Making Money Online by DHH (video)", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/07/the-secret-to-making-money-online-by-dhh-video/" });
UPDATE: I’ve been using this method for awhile now: http://railspikes.com/2008/2/1/loading-seed-data
Seed data is data that the app is dependent on. It is data that has to exist if you were to wipe the database clean and reload your schema. Some examples would be a list of cities/states, a list of categories, or the initial ‘admin’ user [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How To Use Fixtures to Populate Your Database in Rails", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/07/how-to-use-fixtures-to-populate-your-database-in-rails/" });
CDemu is basically a Daemon Tools alternative for Linux. It is a kernel module that lets you mount disk images to a virtual disk drive. It is capable of mounting TOC/CUE/BIN, NRG (Nero), CDI (DiskJuggler), CCD (CloneCD), MDS/MDF (Alcohol 120%), B6T (BlindWrite 6) and TOC images, and probably whatever else libMirage can handle.
Installation isn’t an [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mounting CUE/BIN/NRG/CCD (& other) Images on Linux Using CDemu", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/07/mounting-cuebinnrgccd-other-images-on-linux-using-cdemu/" });
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine sent me this prediction of the future. I don’t know the origin of it, except that he found it on somebody’s profile on Xanga. Some parts sound familiar, but I can’t tell if this is from a book, movie, comic, etc.
5 years
Wafers using Silicon Carbide begins [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Million Years into the Future", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/07/a-million-years-into-the-future/" });
Monday, July 28, 2008
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