The photos are currently stuck on the camera – we are away visiting family and forgot the cable for it. *sigh*

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Well.
Kiwinewt.Geek is no more. Well… as a blog it is no more. As a company it is now going strong.
I have decided to move my blog over to Technohippy.geek.nz because I thought it more suited where I am, where I want to be and how I am going to get there.

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Just trying to get my blog posts to appear as links on my facebook page. Stupid thing doesnt want to, Workbook and Socialite plugins seem to be made of fail too – they post ony my activity wall but dont show up on my proper wall…
FAIL

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Why does RoR not support multi-table inheritance? Theres no way at all (apart from an obscure plugin that noone knows how to use) to get it working without writing SQL views and such, which just gets messy.

It should not be so hard!

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Currently working on a project that I really dont want to be doing any more on now…
So, from Procrastinators-r-us:
user = User.new(:username => “Frankie”, :password => “Fishy”, :password_confirmation => “Fishy”, :email => “frankie@fishlovers.com”, :first_name => “Frank”, :last_name => “EnStein”)

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When dealing with the Viewsonic vx2025wm, nVidia drivers and any Debian derivative, use the VGA cable rather than the DVI cable. This will save you 2+ years of hassle trying to get it working…

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That I didnt end up getting an EEEPC myself. The 701 is too small for me to work on properly, and I can barely see the screen… lol
800×480 is a silly resolution…
Then again, I was going to wait for the 901 rather than the 701 like this is, so the increased hard drive, more ram [...]

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Why is it that World of Warcraft has no “piss off I just want to run around not get the sh*t beaten out of me” mode?
I know its all about the quests and defeating the evil (insert choice of horde/alliance here) and everything, but what if I’m in a foul mood and just dont want [...]

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Why is it not possible to find an online API that will allow me to send txts to NZ phones? I just want to send one txt a day at the same time every day, without having to resend it myself each time… Maybe if I could get a really crappy second-hand phone and connect [...]

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OK. I have been looking and looking and looking for a comparison between exchange/exim/postfix so that I can decide what to have on my new server.
why cant people just put up images like this?

(image from http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-sarge/#components)

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