Monthly Archive for May, 2008

Getting XS4ALL HSDPA/UMTS working on OS X Leopard

Published on May 31, 2008 in Home. 11 Comments Tags: .

Article was updated. See below, the Option software should work out-of-the-box for Leopard 10.5.5 or higher!

Last week I received my HSDPA/UMTS/GPRS card from XS4ALL. After the major ADSL outtage fiasco It really dawned on me that not having net access for a day actually costs more than the whole wireless plan per month! Think about it, as I telecommute 4 days in the week I would actually have to drive to the office to get work done (luckily our offices were spared from the outtage!), the parking money alone is almost more than the whole plan (go Amsterdam!). Enough justification for the new toy. It arrrived, weeh!

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Massive memory leak in ruby-gettext 1.90.0

Published on May 8, 2008 in Home and rails. 0 Comments Tags: .

Just found out there’s a massive memory leak in ruby gettext 1.90.0, one of our applications started eating GBs of RAM after a couple of days in use. So If you’re using gettext for translating your Rails app take note! You can grab the current trunk which has a fix for this.

Meetings

Published on May 5, 2008 in Home and Misc. 0 Comments Tags: .

Found here (thanks Jan). Soo true! Happy telecommuter for 2 years now, with the occasional Meeting midweek. I do not expect to be productive (code-wise) on those days.