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I've finally got my home Ubuntu server running Rails on Passgenger + Apache2. After several attempts at getting this going there were some modifications that I needed to have made in the production.rb file for it to work. Those lines that needed to be changed are:

config.serve_static_assets = true

config.assets.compile = true

Both lines are set to false for a default installation. This post serves more as a reminder for myself when deploying Rails app.

1. 13 inch screen, with a resolution of 1600 x 900 or greater
2. 8gb RAM
3. 256gb SSD
4. Backlit keyboard display
5. USB 3.0 and Bluetooth 4.0
6. Core i7 processor

There is one that fits the bill, the sexy looking Sony VAIO Z, but at price of around $4,000 it's a little steep. The next closest that I've found are the Samsung Series 9 (albeit with a 1366 x 768 resolution screen) and the Asus Zenbook UX31E (albeit with only 4gb of RAM) notebook. Both of these machines are around the $2,000 price point which is considerably less than the Sony.

Know of any notebooks that fit the criteria above? Drop me an email.

Can I see your body of work?

Are you leaving behind an easily found trail of accomplishment?
Few people are interested in your resume any more. Plenty are interested in what you've done.
The second thing you'll need to do is regularly note what you produce in a log or find some other way to keep track.
The first thing is more difficult: If the work you do isn't worth collating and highlighting, you probably need to be doing better work.

The openness and transparency of "uptime" being reported by 37 Signals is exemplary. It reminded my about the series of blog posts from Ryan Carson on the sale of their product, Dropsend.

You would have by now read about SOPA and how it is set to destroy the very Internet we use and rely upon every day (excuse the dramatics). All of my non .com.au domains were managed through GoDaddy, they were easy and cheap.

However, I've never been a big fan of them, especially when it comes to the suggestive advertising and Mr. Parson's wildlife trips to Africa. Them supporting SOPA was the last straw.

I've started to move my domains over to Hover, the whole transfer process is easy (other than GoDaddy trying it's best to make it not so) and hope to be rid of GoDaddy in the near future.

Having taken a few days off from work it's given me some time to watch some movies, rather than list the movies in an unordered list there exists a better, more semantic method, to markup reviews using the hReview microformat. Here's one of the latest movies I've seen marked up with hReview:

p.s. Did you know that Steven Seagal also has a running TV Series named Lawman, and that for the last 20 years he's also been a Deputy Sheriff which is what his TV show is based upon? What a badass!

We recently moved our home Internet to Telstra and with that received a new ADSL modem that also features a Wireless-N router. The setup was quick and simple and we were up and running in no time.

After a few weeks though we started to have intermittent dropouts which resulted in the modem needing to be reconnected. After a bit of investigation and trial and error I fixed the wireless channel to CH13 rather than it being set automatically.

The only issue we had was with the multitude of Android devices we and our visiting friends have. None of which were able to connect to the wireless network anymore stating that the SSID was not in range. Reverting this back to automatic (this time it chose CH6) and the devices were able to connect again.