David Goodlad: the existing article on the Ubuntu wiki for the T61 says to modify /etc/default/acpi-support, which is only valid for Gutsy. gnome-power-manager in Hardy seems to use the data from the hal-info package instead, now, which is contained in a bunch of xml files in /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm*.
Took a look modrails. First impressions: easy to set up; not sure what the target market is for this. There already are plenty of options available to people with root access to their servers. What I would think would be most useful is something that targeted Apache shared hosts. I should be able to put something in my /home/rubys/public_html/.htaccess (or /home/rubys/Sites/.htaccess on a Mac) to say that the depot directory is a Rails application, and access it as http://localhost/~rubys/depot/. ...
For the last two months, I’ve been running XP with CYGWIN. Mostly the SSH client, Firefox, Thunderbird, and Pidgin. I’m increasingly using my server (via SSH) for development where I used to use my laptop.
Clearly, if I’m willing to run XP, I would be willing to try restricted video drivers. The restricted video drivers, either installed directly or via envyng-gtk do address all of the problems listed above, but introduce one new problem. Suspend works. Resume doesn’t. Unfortunately, for me, that is a complete show-stopper.
Pragmatic Programmers: Rails just keeps on changing. Rails 2, released in 2008, brings hundreds of improvements, including new support for RESTful applications, new generator options, and so on. And, as importantly, we’ve all learned a lot more about writing Rails applications in the last few years. So here’s the Third Edition of the Jolt Award winning book that shows you a new approach to web development, updated for Rails 2.
Martin Atkins: it is impossible to use Yadis in this way while having a conforming HTML 5 document. The current ethos for HTML 5 seems to be to remove any mechanism by which it can be extended in any way without going through the HTML working group and changing the core spec.
Just because YADIS didn’t have the foresight to use the officially sanctioned way to embed custom non-visible data is no reason to complain.
Ian Hickson: I have removed SVG support from the HTML parser specification as per your request. (I have left MathML support in the specification.) Hat tip: Shelley Powers.
Ciaran Gultnieks: How do you make web browsing faster on a GPRS connection? The answer seems to be by injecting huge blocks of javascript into pages, turning 6KB of well-formed XHTML into 23KB of junk that refuses to render because it’s invalid.
Dominic Jones: In a move that portends dramatic changes in how disclosures are disseminated online, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has added news feeds for every issuer and reporting person who files with the commission’s EDGAR database [via Charles Hoffman]
It would be nice if somebody could introduce the SEC to the validator.
I’m scheduled to present on Ruby 1.9 at this year’s OSCON. My plans are to expand on this and report on both the excitement and ennui.
My tentative conclusion at this point based on observations of efforts to get products like Rails working on Ruby 1.9: the biggest obstacle to Ruby 1.9’s adoption is the sheer number of mostly working but essentially unmaintained gems that virtually everybody in the Ruby community depends on.