Archive for Sep 2009

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VirtualBox, Gentoo and serial consoles

More as a reminder to myself for when I need this again, but I’m sure everyone needs this at least once.

Having screwed up my kernel configs for my VirtualBox Gentoo image, I needed a serial console to catch the boot messages scrolling past in order...

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Rails specs not running under Ruby 1.9 ?

I spent some time getting PowerDNS on Rails to run on Ruby 1.9.1, which ended up being very easy due to the small amount of plugins & gems used by the project. The only change I had to make myself was to the acts_as_audited plugin, where the one-line...