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Just ordered 2 gigs of ram for my black Macbook. $227 with 2 day shipping... not too shabby, I think. It should make a huge improvement... 512 is just waaay underpowered.

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This is the first Cayman I've seen hit ebay (item: 160002304543). What a sexy machine: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160002304543&fromMakeTrack=true

Got my WWDC2006 e-ticket today! Any of you chaps going? I am flippin' excited to see Leopard!!!!!!!one!!!111

Have any of you guys running Intel macs had this problem? Both my iMini Duo and black MacBook randomly hang up and give me the beachball for up to 3 minutes at a time. Eventually it comes out of it and I can continue. There doesn't seem to be any repeatable steps I can go through to cause it to happen again, so it's just a random annoyance. I keep my activity monitor showing the history all the time, and during these freezes, the processors are never even close to even 1/4 of capacity. I know that sometimes disconnecting from file shares causes a hang, but this is definitely not what's happening to me.

Anyway, I'm hoping for some major patches to come out around WWDC time to fix a lot of weirdnesses I've found. When my intel macs are running well, I couldn't be happier, but I keep finding myself on the Quad G5 because it never has problems, ever.

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I can definitely tell summertime has fully kicked in here in Lincoln... my cable modem has come to a screeching halt. Every kid in the city must be logged on, sucking up bandwidth on myspace. :rolleyes:

Has anyone use a mini colocation service, and who do you recommend? I'm about to move a bunch of sites from datapipe (ugh) onto a mini, and am looking for a place to put it :)

http://www.macminicolo.net/ looks really good, but I haven't done enough investigating yet.

Thanks!!

I've jumped feet first into learning how to use Distributed ruby, which has been a lot of fun and very interesting. I love ruby (not as much as Java, but close), and want to contribute to the cause. Here are just a couple of things that are making me furious at the moment:

1. There are half a dozen ways to install Ruby, and it is possible to have several versions installed with competing libraries. I installed via DarwinPorts, since I needed a working rubyzip package on osx, and every other rubyzip is broken. So, I'm stuck with DarwinPorts.

2. No documentation, whatsoever. Take a gander at these docs: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/. Horrible, horrible documentation. I have literally opened the source files for all of the distributed ruby and rinda packages and have re-written my own documentation. Why in the world should this be necessary?

3. It is damn near impossible (from what I've been able to find) to tell which version of which packages you are using, then updating them is totally hit-or-miss, as there are no clear way to tell which packages work on which platforms (rubyzip, drb, rinda).

Do all languages have this problem, or is this unique to Ruby? I think the Rails people have it together pretty well, but Ruby itself needs some management.

Finally built a blog and have something contribute to the world, so I posted a couple of entries. I need to double-check all of the processes, but they look good so far.

Installing Rails/Apache on OS X (Including Intel Macs)
--- http://bryan.e4industries.com/?p=4

Threading with Apache (Distributed Ruby Part I)
--- http://bryan.e4industries.com/?p=7

A more advanced look at distributed ruby with Rails is coming up. I have a rough draft going, but I keep finding things to add. I haven't seen any other examples of it being used in the same way that I am, so I'm pretty excited.

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