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A 2000 year old computer looks interesting BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient Moon ‘computer’ revisited

I must keep a lookout for the radio program on Dec 12th

Decisions, decisions! Should I buy a smaller, cheaper MacBook or a 15″ MacBook Pro with its larger screen? (I don’t like 17″ laptops, they’re just too big)
Since I’ve written down the question, the answer is obvious — it depends on what I want to use it for! (unsurprisingly this is echoed by others). Space is probably only an issue on an airplane, and I don’t spend that much time travelling, so I’d be better off with the larger screen and faster processor.

I also noticed today that Apple have an educational discount that might come in handy.

I’ve just had a dreadful thought — Maybe I should be asking myself if I need a new laptop at all.

Just found out about the Nokia Software Updater, it’s available for upgrading several phone models. I haven’t tried it yet, I’ll hopefully get it installed and my 6680 upgraded over the weekend. (Although my connection problems seem to have gone away since I selected the network manually)

Update: It appears that my phone already has the latest version (dated August 2005!)

These are my experiences of installing Ruby on Ubuntu. I didn’t install the Ubuntu package but went with the source on the Ruby On Rails website. Everything worked fine out of the box, just downloaded the files and followed their instructions (basically the following, in this order.)

Download ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz and rubygems-0.9.0.tgz from the links on http://www.rubyonrails.org/down

Ruby

tar xzf ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.8.4
./configure
make
make test
sudo make install

RubyGems

tar xvf rubygems-0.9.0.tgz
cd rubygems
sudo ruby setup.rb

Rails

sudo gem install rails –include-dependencies

Test installation

rails railstest/
cd railstest/
ruby script/server

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