Just after stopping at a gas station by La Brea and Sunset, we noticed som serious rim scraping…
We stopped in a Ralph’s parking lot nearby and I put on the spare.
Flat tire
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Monthly Archives: August 2005
How to install Mac OS X on a PC
Once you’ve download Tiger for x86 (apparently out there on BitTorrent), this forum post describes how to install it to a spare hard drive by booting into Linux and using dd:
Fogo de Chao
I went with the Pasadena guys for lunch at this new Brazilian restaurant in Beverly Hills, where we ate insane amounts of meat.
Bill wrote up a good description of the feast.
In Pasadena
I’m in Pasadena for work Thursday & Friday. My wife drove down and we’re making it into a little weekend vacation.
Rice hack
Ruby on Rails video
This short movie shows how easy it is to setup a new Ruby on Rails application:
Books on Ruby on Rails from Amazon.com
Possible character spacing bug in gd library
I think that I may have discovered a bug in character spacing that was introduced somewhere in between gd versions 2.0.28 and 2.0.33. This bug is not present in the gd bundled with PHP, which I am told by Rasmus is some kind of patched version of gd 2.0.23.
standalone gd-2.0.33
gd bundled with PHP or gd-2.0.28
Observe how the character spacing is jacked so that words like “Spain” end up looking like “Sp ain”. Something happened with the vertical spacing as well.
This is on FreeBSD with freetype2-2.1.10. Font is 9 point verdana bold:
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 136032 Dec 30 2003 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/verdanab.ttf MD5 (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/verdanab.ttf) = a2b4dc9afc18e76cfcaa0071fa7cd0da
I’m going to report this at http://www.boutell.com/contact/.