Category: WebDev & Code
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Installing Sphinx on Mac OS X Lion
Moving from Windows/Linux to Mac, one of my Ruby on Rails applications wasn’t working. I’d forgotten to install sphinx, and the error was a little cryptic for an amateur like me. Anyway, knowing the problem, installing sphinx I expected to be easy. 2 hours later and I realise it’s working. It was probably working within…
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Windows to Mac continued
Where did that month go! It seems only 2 weeks ago I was opening the box of my new macbook pro but it’s actually been a month already. So, what have I learned? Remember how I said how I found it strange the mouse wheel direction had reversed? Well, that’s a new ‘feature’ of OS…
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CRON – multiple cron jobs on one line (running consecutively, not concurrently)
This post will (hopefully) remind me in the future how to do something very simple. A crontab is normally running one command on each line. EG: # m h dom mon dow command 01 00 * * * /home/cronscripts/vine-warn-when-large-user-profile 05 00 * * * /home/cronscripts/vine-get-remote-pc-backup.sh 01 01 * * * /home/cronscripts/vine-samba-users 01 02 * *…