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segmentation fault when trying to create a new zone on solaris10 x86 (on vmware fusion on mac os x)

My environment: mac os x snow leopard 10.6.8 vmware fusion Version 3.1.3 (416484) solaris 10 x86: SunOS solaris10 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i86pc i386 i86pc When I tried to create a zone, I got a Segmentation fault: bash-3.00# zonecfg -z zone01 zone01: No such zone configured Use ‘create’ to begin configuring a new zone. zonecfg:zone01> create Segmentation [...]

missing psych warning installing ruby and rubygem on linux from source

I was trying to get ruby 1.9.3p0 and gem 1.8.15 installed from source on my ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS. When trying to build and install rubygems, I got the following warning: root@ubuntu:~/downloads/rubygems-1.8.15# ruby setup.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/yaml.rb:56:in `<top (required)>’: It seems your ruby installation is missing psych (for YAML output). To eliminate this warning, please install libyaml and [...]

Downgrade from Mac OS Lion to Snow Leopard

My wife needs Vectorworks, an old copy, on her MacBook Pro 15″. But she is running Lion. When she bought her laptop she received a free Lion upgrade that she installed herself via the Apple Store. However Lion no longer supports older powerpc apps, like Vectorworks and so I offered to downgrade to Snow Leopard. [...]

WordPress 3.3 + WPML 2.4.1 + Ubergeist 1.0.7 + NextGen 1.9.1 = DISASTER!!

I am working on a new website with some friends and this morning when I saw the “Upgrade to WordPress 3.3” the hand was faster than the brain, so I upgraded. Unfortunately this upgrade broke something. In particular what happens is that when I try to add pictures (or anything else since in WP3.3 the [...]

Neal Stephenons new book REAMDE 20/09/2011

I just discovered that Neal Stephenson has a new book coming out in Sept 2011, REAMDE, looks like it’s based on README the typical text file we all know and most of people ignore. There is a sneak preview available on Facebook (why Neal, why not venture into Google+ instead of the empire of evil [...]