Monthly Archives: December 2010
I’ll take obscure error messages for $400, Alex
GenerationX updated for Snow Leopard
When you work on your family tree — or genealogy project — you’ll work with GEDCOM files. Sites like Geni and ancestry.com can export (and sometimes) import these files. There are a few Mac programs for editing GEDCOM files: Reunion ($100), Heredis ($70), MacFamilyTree ($50) and GEDitCOM II ($65). These are varying degrees of nice, …
Amazon Associates has a sense of humor
Why are you signing up for Amazon Associates?
In which a plan comes together
Math is hard, Mint edition
Huawei / Wind Mobile Connect Manager’s fuzzy math
HP’s Epic DFS fail
In hardware engineering lingo, DFS is “design for serviceability.”
Understanding Disk Utility’s “Could not restore – Device not configured” error
On Mac OS X, if you attempt to use Disk Utility to restore one volume to another (such as a DVD to a USB drive), you may get this error: Could not restore – Device not configured This means you have a bad USB drive and need to replace it.
How to solve the “undefined method `deep_symbolize_keys’ for nil:NilClass” error in Rails
I was trying to migrate a table in my Rails app and got this error: undefined method `deep_symbolize_keys’ for nil:NilClass It’s a strange error, and there weren’t very many hits on Google. A lighthouse ticket provided a clue. The problem wasn’t one of my plugins or gems — it was i18n itself. Upgrading from 0.4.1 …