Monthly Archives: January 2009

Migrating to Phusion Passenger

Posted on 01/29/2009 by zd

I have been using nginx and mongrel for my rails application on my 256 slice. It has been nice, except administration is becoming a big overhead when considering all the stuff I had to deal with fastcgi scripts for my other … Continue reading →

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Don’t Upgrade to Google Chrome 2.0 if You Like to Use Space to Scroll

Posted on 01/13/2009 by zd

Google Chrome 2.0 has been in the developer channel for a couple of days, with some interesting updates. Today I downloaded 2.0.156.1 and gave it a shot. Everything seems to be fine, except Space bar no longer scrolls the page. Finally … Continue reading →

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Amazon EC2 has a new face

Posted on 01/09/2009 by zd

Today Amazon Web Service released their management console. Although Amazon is kind of late in its own game, this management console is nice for those who have been wanting a console from Amazon directly. Running Amazon AWS is an interesting … Continue reading →

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Test Drive Windows 7 on Dell Latitude E6400

Posted on 01/08/2009 by zd

One of the news for today is Windows 7. The beta version was released to MSDN. People in the business IT world have been arguing whether they should skip Vista and upgrade directly from Windows XP. Nevertheless, I jumped the … Continue reading →

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