http://www.twobaldgeeks.com/blog Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:06:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This was a stupid problem that being somewhere between noob and mid level *nix geek really hurt me. Either way, painful as it was: If you are using Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon), and you follow any of the tutorials or info for building Rails software stacks, and also happen to ... http://www.twobaldgeeks.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/19/ubuntu-710-and-the-dilemma-of-the-ruby-postgresql-connector/ Hey guys & gals, I didn't expect to be writing this the very next day. I actually didn't expect to be writing it at all, I thought I said it all in yesterday's anti-BL tirade... But as my wife condensed this dragged out 2 hour show into a mere ... http://www.twobaldgeeks.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/27/biggest-loser-losers-part-ii/ Ok, this one goes out to my wife, who loves this idiotic piece of ENTERTAINMENT... Yup, that's right, I said "entertainment", and I meant it. This show is based off of bad science, and I'm sick of wanting to go all Elvis on my expensive widescreen every time this turd ... http://www.twobaldgeeks.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/25/why-the-biggest-loser-is-nonsense/ Peein' In A Bottle Video on YouTube Hola Geeks! Ok, now I KNOW some of you are World of Warcraft fans (lovingly known as Warcrack to those who are addicted) because it's a proven fact that geeks can actually derive essential proteins and bioflavanoids via their eyeballs while ... http://www.twobaldgeeks.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/21/peein-in-a-bottle-world-of-warcraft-timbaland-parody/ Hey folks. I just wanted to plug a business that's owned by a friend of mine that provides online document storage and management, DocuSync. Their feature set and pricing is pretty damned outstanding compared to the other services I've tried and I whole-heartedly recommend them to folks in ... http://www.twobaldgeeks.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/21/shameless-plug/ I had a query regarding the game programming tutorials I've been working on. The query is "Where the heck are they?" Here's a quick status. I would like to have the game completed before I posted the rest of the tutorials. However, due to some unforeseen circumstances the ... http://www.twobaldgeeks.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/19/as30-game-programming-tutorials/ My wife sent me this link while ago. Found myself damned near on the floor. I've never been a major D&D player (pretty much right with the author and his experience), but this stuff is a great read. http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article73.htm Enjoy! LB http://www.twobaldgeeks.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/19/too-funny-to-pass-up/ Ran into another Flex 2 error the other day that's again not crystal clear about what it's trying to tell you. This one is: Invalid Embed directive in stylesheet - can't resolve source 'Embed(source = "assets/my_picture.png")' Here's the source: .customVideoTree { defaultLeafIcon:Embed(source="assets/ds-qhv-film-icon.png"); } This one is pretty clear in ... http://www.twobaldgeeks.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/14/another-tricky-flex-2-error/ I ran into an error while working on a Flex2 application this morning. The error made zero sense in the context, and I wasn't able to find anything that explained it (reasonably) via google. So, here's what I found the hard way : The error was: [RPC Fault faultString="Error #2070: ... http://www.twobaldgeeks.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/08/flex-2-strange-error/ Wooooooo! I can feel the heat coming off the Internet as that title got encoded into binary. FLAME WAR! I could probably end this now, and let everyone finish it in the comments section, and it would surely get ugly, but we're not here for a big ... http://www.twobaldgeeks.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/04/digital-audio-workstations-mac-or-pc/