Archive for April, 2010

When having trouble installing the mysql gem on OSX

April 21st, 2010

And you get an error like:

*** extconf.rb failed ***

Go read:

http://blog.bmn.name/2008/02/rails-gem-install-mysql-throws-error-extconfrb-failed

How to run OS X in one language but certain apps in another

April 20th, 2010

Ever want to run your OS in French but you live in America and type mostly in English?

http://www.tj-hd.co.uk/en-gb/languageswitcher/

Because if you want to use more than one language at a time on your computer you’re Doing It Wrong, because if you were doing it right, Apple would have provided a way to do it that way.

Astounding that this requires a 3rd-party application. Yes, it is possible to change the language in your document, but if you also use paragraph styles, they have a set languge.  And that set language doesn’t change when you set the language on the whole document.  And you can’t highlight the whole document of mixed languages and set the whole thing to one of them.  Usability at its finest.

Apple, some computer users do know how to operate computers.