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Wrong Ruby version on your Powerbook?

hiremaga — Sat, 05 May 2007 06:16:05 +0000

If you own an Apple Powerbook and try upgrading Ruby using MacPorts, you may find that typing ‘ruby -v’ at the console stubbornly insists the version installed is 1.8.2 whereas you’re expecting something more recent (1.8.6 at time of this post).

In my case it turned out that this was because the default order of the PATH environment variable had ‘/opt/local/bin’ after ‘/usr/bin’. This meant that the older version that came with OS X Tiger which was in ‘/usr/bin’ was being used in preference to the newer version installed by MacPorts in ‘/opt/local/bin’.

The solution: simply change PATH in ~/.profile so ‘/opt/local/bin’ appears before ‘/usr/bin’.

Finally, it turns out that on my shiny new Macbook Pro the PATH is ordered this way by default.

Mat is irresponsible

hiremaga — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:30:20 +0000

Mat Holroyd, my so called friend, sat by idly and watched while I spent nearly $4000 on a Macbook Pro that I don’t need, at least not in a non-addiction sense.

I’m disappointed in you Mat.

And Apple, well. You’d think that spending almost $4000 in a day would be sufficient, but no. The final page in the process had a button which read “Continue Shopping” – they wanted more of my hard (not yet) earned money. They should get a conscience and replace the button with “Go take a stroll and think about what you’ve just done Abhi”.

Anyways, I can’t wait for my new baby to arrive!

I love my Mac, but can I rely on it?

hiremaga — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 04:09:18 +0000

Since I bought my first Mac late last year, I’ve really grown to love it. I’ve already said many times that “I’m never going back”. In fact I’ve been very seriously contemplating upgrading my Powerbook to a Macbook Pro – I hate that my Java unit tests take twice as long to run on the 1.67 Ghz G4 CPU Powerbook as compared with the 3.2 Ghz P4 that I use at work.

However, this recent post by MJ, Aidan’s business partner at Infurious, makes me nervous. It seems that he’s had trouble with 4 *top of the range* notebooks in short span of time and not enough in the way of support from Apple.

Not the best sort of publicity for Apple to be generating at this juncture (or any for that matter). Perhaps the kudos points they’ve earned with their passionate and fanatically loyal users will carry them through, perhaps not – time will tell.

In the meanwhile I think I might postpone my Macbook Pro purchase.