Technology Rantings
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So I got a new iPod. So far, no thoughts… I have plugged it in and have had a “Do not disconnect” message for the last 8 hrs…
So I patiently wait, and reorganize my music collection…
[Follow up]
Clearly I'm a tool… since the warning is simply because the unit needs to be undocked before removing.
My iPod rocks!
One of the things I hate about Windows is their crappy Schedules Tasks utililty. It is really quite akward to set up a recurring task that runs more often than every day. Also, if you are in a corporate environment that makes you change your password monthly, all your schedules tasks stop working… Crap!What to do? Cygwin to the rescue!For those of you not familiar with Cygwin, it is a unix like environment for Windows which provides most of the GNU utilities running from a familiar bash shell (Familiar to *nix fans anyway).To set up Cron as a windows nt service, you need to have a cygwin installation with cron and cygrunsrv installed.
To install as a service:
cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
To start the service:
net start cron
You may then edit your crontab with:
crontab -e
Happy Cronning!
I'm creating a new site for my sister BuyBuyBonnies.com. She is opening a Gift Basket business in Bolton, Ontario. Go check it out.
I discovered a new rails based content management system today called Radiant.
It is a simple cms with basic features and a nice simple and elegant admin interface. I'm thinking of moving this site over to Radiant since I think it would be much more fun to hack around on that.
Also, in my search for an e-commerce platform… I am leaning towards rolling my own. Winter is coming on, so I will be spending more time indoors (read: more time to hack) and I would much prefer to hack on rails than php.