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LibXML Segmentation fault

marcus — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:44:25 +0000

I have been getting intermittent segfaults with Ruby Enterprise Edition 2010.01 on both Mac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6, and Centos 5.3 with LibXML:

See the LibXML Rubyforge page more details, but the solution is to code your document finders as below...

Korimako (Bellbird) iPhone ringtone

nigel — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:49:02 +0000

I’ve been enjoying listening to New Zealand native birds as ringtones on my iPhone. Here is one of my favourites – the Korimako, or Bellbird [164 kB].

You are welcome to share this with your friends and redistribute – as long as you retain the copyright information contained within the file.

To add it to your iPhone, just download the file and then double click it. It should open iTunes and import itself. It will be copied to your iPhone next time to connect it to your computer.

Let me know in the comments if you like it, and I’ll create some more. Any requests?

Macbook Pro Speed Test

marcus — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:24:46 +0000

With the Sharesight test suite (ruby/rails/mysql && rake test), i tested the performance of my the new MBP on Snow Leopard.

I save 16 seconds per run – its going to take a while to pay for itself…. But about 22% faster, which is not too bad.

Macbook Pro (March 06) 1.83GHz 2G Ram
real 1m29.464s
user 0m50.348s
sys 0m5.812s

Macbook Pro (Sep 09) 2.53 GHz 4G Ram
real 1m13.450s
user 0m43.662s
sys 0m3.280s