Here is my fix for the problem.  I included some stuff here that wasn't included in the dreamhost wiki.

From ssh shell:


cd ~
mkdir .gems bin lib src
mkdir .gems
echo 'export GEM_HOME="$HOME/.gems"' >> .bash_profile
echo 'export GEM_PATH="$GEM_HOME:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8"' >> .bash_profile
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.gems/bin:$PATH"' >> .bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

Now I had to download and manually install an older version of rails:

Check here for manual installation details (http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/GemRails)


cd ~/src
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/43985/rubygems-1.3.0.tgz
tar xzvf rubygems-1.3.0.tgz
cd rubygems-1.3.0
ruby setup.rb --prefix=$HOME
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/12245/activerecord-1.14.4.gem
gem install --local activerecord-1.14.4.gem
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/12269/actionpack-1.12.4.gem
gem install --local actionpack-1.12.4.gem
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/12251/actionmailer-1.2.4.gem
gem install --local actionmailer-1.2.4.gem
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/12254/actionwebservice-1.1.5.gem
gem install --local actionwebservice-1.1.5.gem
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/12257/rails-1.1.5.gem
gem install --local rails-1.1.5.gem
cd ~/.gems/bin
vim rake

Now you need to add the following line:


require 'rubygems/gem_runner'


below:


require 'rubygems/


Now finally:


cd ~/railsapp
rm -rdf vendor/rails
rake rails:freeze:gems


Now if you get issues you'll have to run --trace


rm -rdf vendor/rails
rake rails:freeze:gems --trace


1) 到 NOD32 30天免費試用版: http://www.eset.hk/html/44/42/

2) 選擇下載 "ESET NOD32 防毒軟件 3.0 繁體中文"

*選32位還是64位? 這可要根據你電腦的CPU，如果你不清楚，你大概是32位吧!
你可以從以下兩種方法查明一下:
i) [windows] + [pause] 到 [系統] 的 "系統類別"
ii) [windows] + [R] 到 [執行] 輸入 "msinfo32" 查看 "系統類別"，如是X86那就是32位，X64就是64位

3) 成功下載及安裝後，你可以安心使用30天

4) 到30天期限之前，你可以到以下網址得到最新升級ID: http://www.nod321.com

5) 然後手動更新 [更新病毒資料庫]，如有需要，輸入從以上網頁取得的升級ID

小結：防護軟件一向是系統佔用的重敵，NOD32勝在佔系統很少，而且掃毒速度(不是數獨啊XD)也很快。想試用的，心動不如行動啊。

Network neutrality has gathered enough political momentum for both candidates to take an official stand on it. Although the issue was debated furiously in both the House of Representatives and the Senate in 2006, neither side managed to produce a bill that could be signed into law. (The only lasting result of the efforts on Capitol Hill was an unintentionally comical bit of grandstanding by Alaska senator Ted Stevens, where he offered an analogy describing the Internet as a "series of tubes.") In the absence of any clear legislation on the matter, the FCC has taken up the role of neutrality enforcer, forcing cable provider Comcast to stop restricting BitTorrent traffic earlier this year.

According to their position statements on the issues, John McCain is against Net neutrality and Barack Obama is for it. This makes it one of the few technology issues on which the candidates clearly disagree.

via Obama and McCain Differ on Net Neutrality - Internet Policy from McCain and Obama - Popular Mechanics

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This article is an outstanding primer on the topic of "network neutrality". They didn't get specific responses from the campaigns (this issue is currently more of a nerd only thing), but the basic slant of each candidate is evident...

...the general philosophies of each side seem clear: McCain believes in a lightly regulated Internet, while Obama believes in more government involvement. But it gets a bit more complicated. When it comes to net neutrality, both sides can make a credible case that they're the ones defending freedom of innovation and open communication.

The author then does an excellent job of defining the term...

One reason is that there's no accepted definition of network neutrality itself. It is, in fact, more of a networking philosophy than a defined political position. A pure "neutral" network is one that would treat all content that traveled across it equally. No one data packet would be prioritized above another. Image files, audio files, a request from a consumer for a web page—all would be blindly routed from one location to another, and the network would neither know nor care what kind of data was encompassed in each packet.For most but not all kinds of files, that's how it works now.

...and then talks about the literal "technical difficulties" that face the topic in the future.

Go read the article to get a better idea of what those are going to be. Feel free to suggest your own.

It's an interesting question, as it gets directly at the question of the degree to which the government should regulate the market to protect rights of people, to protect rights of "property" ownership*, and how much we should let the market itself do both...or neither.

* This asterisk is for intellectual property and the whole copyright/internet question, which is of itself a stimulatingly difficult situation to resolve. It is tangential to the Internet as a whole, but also drives a lot of the demand for the bandwidth in question. Comcast got busted for making a decision along this axis.

That is, the copyright/internet question of what is in the dumptrucks. The network neutrality question is what information super-highway they can get on, and whether or not the telecom industry can set up toll booths in the fast lane...and harass the riff-raff.

The answer is very short and simple: WebCenter 10g runs on OC4J, WebCenter 11g runs (read: will run) on WebLogic Server.

The explanation is easy and straight forward too: in the 10g times the only Java EE container Oracle had, was OC4J. No problem there. When the 11g version ships, the entire Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, including WebCenter will run on WebLogic Server.

Do I have to worry about migration, then?
No. You, as an application developer, see very little from the underlying container changes. In a nutshell, this is how you migrate an application built using JDeveloper 10.x: Open your workspace or project in JDeveloper 11g, and the automatically invoked migration tools will migrate your application, so it can run on the 11g WebLogic Server.

If there's interest, as we get closer to the 11g release, I'll be happy to post about the migration process as well. Just let me know... ;-)

This is a run through and review of what happened on my upgrade and my opinion on the OS.

Installation

I backed up my drive using Carbon Copy Cloner, this is much better than SuperDuper and a little bit faster. It automatically sets the copy to be bootable which is very good. This took about 2 hours in all.

With my back up at the ready in case of a backfire during installation, I popped in the OS X Leopard Installation DvD. It came up with a friendly window like many app installer windows. I opened the OS X Installer straightaway and filled out the install form. I restarted my Macbook and on log in it began to install, I was able to skip the DvD verification as the disc has been used successfully on another Mac running Tiger. The installation took about  2 hours to complete. Then I restarted again and it was done.

I had a few updates installed via the Software Update and I am now running on an up to date MacBook

My opinion of Leopard

Leopard is a great OS, it has loads of new features.

Stacks enables the user to click on a folder icon or stack icon on the Dock ,files spew forth from the icon in a beautiful fan like motion. I use this to house my Graphics and Downloads and it works great.

Now Coverflow is featured in Finder to make it easier for the user to access files, images and videos in Finder ,It's great, I find it easier and more stylish to browse my files and videos now. 

Photobooth has a few more effects, Greenscreen or Bluescreen allows the user to import him or herself into a rollercoaster, space, a polka-dot background and many more. It also enables the user to take 4 photos in quick succesionof each other. I find the effetcs good, but they only work nicely with a greenscreen or bluescreen.

How can I forget the Dock? It's great, the icons on the Dock have their own dynamic reflections and the active application indicator is a nice glowing rectangle. The menu bar is now transparent and lets 50% of the wallpaper through without losing text and icon visibility, depending on the wallpaper you have, I am using Aurora, it's really nice and it's the iconic Leopard wallpaper.

Overall, Leopard is a great, amazing OS and I personally love it.

Thanks

JDS

This version contains recent addition to the incoming Python 3.0 that doesn't break the current 2.x version's code. As we know, Python 3.0 was designed to break compatibility of 2.x code. Some changes and additions to the 3.0 that is not breaking the 2.x is backported into this 2.6 release.

New modules added to the standard library: multiprocessing, json.

Look at the website: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/

I backed my drive up, twice, to make sure. Popped in the Leopard disc and installed it. That's it!

Leopard is great y the way, if you are thinking of getting it, by all means get it!

Thanks

JDS

I find this situation curious. First, I have heard all the arguments/complaints about incompatibilities, stability, security, etc., but let’s set those aside and ask a more fundamental question: why would users want to upgrade an operating system at all? If Microsoft is so concerned about maintaining market share (and widespread discussion indicates that they certainly are), why not take a look at why users don’t want to use the next, newest thing just because it’s the next, newest thing? Most people I know are perfectly content using Windows XP. Since an operating system governs the user experience for operating the PC, switching the OS is not a small change.

Here’s what I think the answer to that question is: most users don’t. Technology users that actively depend on the technology for productivity really just want consistency, and will only accept change if it makes tasks better in some way — faster, more efficient, and almost universally, easier. Do you really want to use new technology if it doesn’t provide you with something you need? Will you acquire the newer form of that technology if it doesn’t provide you with something crucial that you don’t have today? Do you want technology that makes (or even if it only appears to make) your tasks more difficult? Efficiency is found in consistency, and products that change constantly won’t be well adopted by those that need to be able to depend on using the technology without taking time to re-learn, re-learn, re-learn. Yes, there are some technology aficionados that love that cycle, but I feel safe in saying that most of us don’t. We just want our technology to work for us, not the other way around.

Now, in the context of operating system changes, put on the new PC user hat. For new users, change is almost insurmountable. (Is change while learning difficult? Have you ever tried changing the engine on a moving car?) A PC is hard enough to use. Change the operating system significantly and they’re ready to throw in the towel altogether. As a more experienced user, I understand updates are needed (especially for security these days), but honestly, I wonder if Microsoft likes change just for the sake of change (and profit.) Could it be that Windows XP is simply good enough for most existing PC users? Is it possible Vista doesn’t yield anything “improved” enough to warrant the change? And what about our brand new PC users? Is Vista or XP better for them, or neither?

Given that choice, my vote would be neither. Neither Windows XP nor Windows Vista are gracious enough to new users… they’re obviously made for existing users. Since learning about PCs and operating systems is a pretty tough request for new users, is there something that could make the learning curve easier? I think there might be. My colleagues know I’m a big fan of software that teaches users to develop better skills (on that particular software) via different “user modes.” Many pieces of software currently on the market have “beginner” modes which allow new users to be productive without expending vast amounts of effort just to learn the software. Eventually, an intermediate mode allows users to progress toward more sophisticated use. Truly experienced users can elect “advanced” mode.

For some time it has been my opinion that Windows needs something like this. Imagine an interface that is a little more “real world” for new PC users. It would be intuitive, yet allow completion of the same tasks the standard (“advanced”) Windows interface does while at the same time reinforcing the concepts needed to understand “advanced mode.” What might “beginner” mode look like? Well, I have a few ideas running around in my mind… nothing final, but it would surely need to be a little more discreet. Perhaps the interface would be slightly analogous to other “real world” machines. Now, please understand  I do NOT mean something like Microsoft Bob. While "Bob" used a real world,  analogy-based approach to the PC interface— and I’m certainly fond of analogies — it took the concept much too far. Note to Microsoft (and other developers): even the newest, most elderly users understand that a PC is a machine. What they don’t understand is how to operate it!

That’s what I see as the ultimate challenge — making sense of the machine. That’s why I wrote The Ultimate PC Primer , and that’s where I see Microsoft’s operating systems closing the door on new PC users — the OS is still too foreign. Do I think it’s easy to solve? Not at all. But it is needed, and it is worthwhile to try to solve. So while Microsoft is worried about losing existing users when it comes to adoption of their new operating system(s), perhaps they should also double-check to make sure they’re not slamming their own Windows closed on potential newcomers to the market.

I am now backing up my drive on my macbook running Tiger, preparation for installing Leopard which I got today. This is a very "scary" time for me as I love my macbook to bits, and i am very paranoid guy so everyhting that could go wrong always scares me, as I think it's going to. Everyone cross your fingers because if this goes wrong, well, im going to be;

disheartened

annoyed

sad

and annoyed, again.

Corss you fingers everybody. this is the dawning of a new age...

To be continued...

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Wesmar's new line of all stainless steel double propeller bow and stern thrusters is based on over 40 years experience in the ocean. From luxury yachts to commercial fishing vessels, some working in midwinter Arctic and Antarctic waters, Wesmar has been manufacturing rugged, reliable bow and stern thrusters.

Wesmar's Customer Satisfaction Report is available as a PDF. From mega yachts to work vessels to tour boats.

Wesmars counter rotating dual propeller thrusters design was invented by Wesmar. The counter rotating propellers provide 40% more thrust from the same tunnel and input power over a single propeller design.

Wesmar Thruster are available from Go2marine in Direct Drive DC and Hydraulic Drives. Special orders can be fitted with Proportional DC Drive, AC Electric Drive and fitted for Central Hydraulics.

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Wesmar Thrusters are available from 5 to 350 Horsepower and from 6" to 42" propellers for vessels from 25 to 250+ feet. Custom orders are available. Contact Go2marine to discuss your application.

Da quanto successo stamattina, direi che la soluzione non può dipendere da me: penso che in realtà qualcuno degli aggiornamenti fatti in questi giorni (ad altre cose) abbia in qualche modo "messo a posto" il problema di Wicd. Vi sto infatti scrivendo grazie alla connessione "procacciatami" da wicd 1.5.3....

Stamattina, esasperata dalla vecchia versione che avevo momentaneamente risuscitato, ho ritentato con l'aggiornamento: ho risposto "Sostituisci" a tutte le domande che mi ha fatto durante l'aggiornamento (come sono sicura di aver fatto anche l'altra volta), sono andata subito a cancellare la voce che avevo aggiunto a mano all'elenco dei programmi d'avvio che sta nella finestra delle sessioni, ho spento e riacceso (perchè a riavviare ho qualche problema)... e tutto ha funzionato!!

A tutti voi che avete desistito: ritentate! Sarete più fortunati.

A presto.

I'm finding that all reviews are dualistic. Not the swordfighting kind (although that does relate here) but you are always reviewing both the place, and the event that you experience within it.
I saw Spamalot at the Palace theatre on Tuesday and I was deeply impressed with the play and had very positive feelings about the venue.
I always buy the cheapest tickets for plays - have probably never spent more than 20 pounds and that was for Chicago and it was crap. Simple maths. A 70 pound ticket is not seven times better than a ten pound ticket, maybe twice as good, but that just strikes me as a bad deal.
Admitadly I have strained my ears and neck throughout performances so it was with some approbation that I booked £12.50 tickets and invited friends to an evening at the theatre.
Exiting slightly sake sauced from a roast duck mortury, we swaggered into the ticket both and received the enormous news that our seats had been upgraded from the outer cosmos to the middle of the dress circle. I had organised these tickets as a repayment of kindness to a few friends and my apparant generosity was now happily positioning me in credit.
Staff were friendly, the venue seemed clean, the wine was priced as though we were Saudi Princes and the seats were perfect.
I'm one of those people, and gosh there are a lot of us, who can near as recite the enitrety of Monty Python's "The Holy Grail". Was a little unsure how to prepare myself for this then except that I knew it was lovingly crafted by Eric Idle and had recieved broadly brilliant reviews.
And it was great. Really great. I was saying at the time that it was the best play I'd seen, but on colder reflection, it was at least very very good, if not this.
The worst bits, though they were good, were the dialogue from the fim. The best bits were the surprises, the hilarious songs, the great spectical, the pace of the thing and the ironic king arthur played by that indian guy from the Kumars.
I'm just spending my time now scanning the cheap theatre ticket web sites; trying to find the cheapest tickets on the worst nights to the best shows, and angling for upgrades.
Check out my review of Palace Theatre - I am gotiges7 - on Qype

GPT is an acronym for "Get Paid To". These are programs that will pay you to be their member. There are several types of GPT programs on the net, such as pay you to read e-mails, click ads or links, surf other members sites, promote your own site, complete online surveys, etc. I have always been an avid follower and advocator of GPT programs, more in particular, the PTC and PTR programs. And I have always recommended joining these two programs to various people including all my relatives, personal friends and all valued online friends as well.

If possible I want to prove to anyone else who has similar doubts that you can make REAL money from GPT programs.

And it is quite obvious that if people don't see the money, either directly or through others, they are going to quit with the wrong impression that GPT programs "just don't work" for making extra money online.

That is a loss to those GPT users and the GPT industry as a whole because it is not true. Although it's a fact that you cannot make "thousands" or "millions" from these programs, but you can make some good extra money from them every month without spending a dime and invest a very small fraction of it into a legitimate business opportunity that will pay you growing residual income.

But keep in mind GPT programs are not the "get rich quick scheme" type. There is no costs joining or be a member of these programs, none, nada, $0, zilch. Everything in GPT world is truly optional. Members are not forced to join anything. This arena is only for those seeking people that really want to make solid money online and make growing residual income if they wish to do so. It's really up to you how much money you want to make... fix your own time limits according to your convenience and without spending a dime from your pocket. That's it!

PTC (Paid-To-Click)

A program where you get paid to click on or ads and visit websites. The process is easy! You simply click a link and view a website for a few seconds to earn money. You don't need any skills. This is because all you need to do is visit the sites they provide you with. You can earn even more by referring friends.

PTR (Paid-To-Read)

Same as PTC. The only difference is that you get paid by reading the e-mail advertisements sent to your e-mail account and visiting the advertised website for a few seconds to earn money. It's as simple as that. Also, you can earn even more by referring friends.

PTS (Paid-To-Surf)

Program that pays you for surfing, mostly autosurfing, other members sites. Like PTC and PTR programs, you earn even more even more by referring friends and upgrade your account to be able to earn more.

PTP (Paid-To-Promote)

Many says this program is one of the best among the GPT family and an easy way to make money online. This is also referred to as CPM program. You get paid per ad impression and the visitor don't even need to click on ad. Impression count and CPM rate varies from program to program.

There are several other GPT programs available on the internet. What I've shown above are only examples. So, now you know what GPT means in free money online world...free money-earning opportunity on the internet!

If you actually VOLUNTEER to be one of the first moved to the new system
your account will be "upgraded" to unlimited disk and bandwidth, forever.
Of course, it's not like you'll use it, and it's of course subject to our
"unlimited" policy. If you do decide to do it, you'd be a damn fool to
not read the caveats listed there and *follow them*.

Damned fool if you do, gonna get moved eventually anyway if you don't.

You can find information about the unlimited plan over at DreamHost.com. If you do not have DreamHost, signup and get an account.  To make this deal even better, use one of my promo codes for an even bgger discount!

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Please note the dates of the promocodes, some are old and don't work as described. I can make more upon request.
I also have 5 invitations:
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• Up our plan features to 2TB disk and 20TB bandwidth!
• Give $150 off a 5-year signup or $200 off a 10-year signup!
• Are way better than regular promo codes.. but are in very limited supply!

Anyway after doing a few of these sites I looked at my own site.  It was version 3 of the Emerald Computers site, I have had it for about 2 years.  It was very limiting because I was in a fixed width and fixed height template.  It limited how much content I could have on any one page.  I decided it did not look good enough for a company that was going to create websites, add to that it simply did not generate sales.  So I spent 3 days designing and building the New Emerald Computers site.  I found a nice template that I liked, but the menu was simply too small so I created a pull down menu, for the first time.  I also did a few other firsts on this website.  I built the entire site without using tables AT ALL.  Tables are so lame and hard to work with.  I also made the entire site with proper CSS, no more setting fonts in the text.  Something else I did, for the fourth time is that I divided the entire site up using PHP.  I have found that this makes it SO much easier to edit a site.  Everything is server side includes.  Most of the pages are 5-8 different PHP files spliced together, the server does all the work so the user can not even tell.  But what this lets me do is change just one file and all of my pages are changed.  Yes I KNOW this is not new, in fact this was been going on for 10 years, but I have only used it for 2 years.

On sunday I decided that the site was better than my old one, even though only 60% of the content was written so I deleted the old one and uploaded the new one.   I did something on this page I never did on any of my other pages, I put a call to action at the bottom of all the services pages.  A visitor simply can fill out a short form and then I can all them and set up a service call, it also has a link to our contact page.    I just did it because I thought it would be nice, but to my huge surprise I have had over 10% of the people who visited this page fill out the form, and I called them tuesday and two have been converted into sales!!!  WOW.  On top of that my volume of phone calls is up over 50%, with almost half of the calls mentioning my website.  This is crazy, I did not expect results this fast or this good.  Google still has not even indexed the new site.  I am working quickly to get the rest of the site down.  Yesterday I wrote a huge page about dropshipping, and I also wrote one about how to upgrade a computer.

I hope this keeps up, I will keep my readers informed.  By the way this is why I have been fairly quite on the blog, I am too busy with this to blog much, even though some really important stuff is going on.

Tired of always having to delete demos to make room for new ones?  Don't delete another thing, upgrade your PS3's HDD and do it for under $100.

Amazon.com has listed Western Digital Scorpio 2.5" 320GB SATA HDD for the low price of $83.90, and since it ships from Amazon, and is over $25, it also qualifies for FREE super saver shipping.

You may be thinking, what would I need 320GB for?  Well, I upgraded to a 160GB HDD at the PS3 launch, and I only have 11GB left, so it's time to upgrade AGAIN.  My suggestion is to upgrade once, and make it BIG.  You do NOT want to upgrade twice like I have to.  The PS3, much like the PS2 and PSOne, will have a 10 year lifespan, so even if it may not seem it now, you WILL eventually need some extra storage on your PS3.

For an instructional video on HOW TO upgrade your PS3's HDD click HERE.

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Sometimes I send messages I shouldn't send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night email to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together. Gmail can't always prevent you from sending messages you might later regret, but today we're launching a new Labs feature I wrote called Mail Goggles which may help.

When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret