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Comment on GM Pass Key? I’ll pass. by Mark

Mark — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:28:31 +0000

Thank you so much. My 99 0lds Aurora Key-Pass went kapoot! Out of nowhere it quit reading my key. I found your post and went to Radio Shack. Followed the directions and saved a ton of money.. Works great!! As a note, the wires on the 99 aurora are in a small black casing that runs over top of the steering column and then back into the mess of wires that goes down under the dash. Both wires inside the casing are tiny white wires.. good luck to anyone else.. it was a breeze..

Comment on Installing Rails without root by Sumit

Sumit — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:05:45 +0000

That was pretty awesome..!! Earlier I had spent 3 days in installing and even that gave segmentation errors. This script just ran for about 5 minutes and installed Ruby!! Hats off.

Comment on GM Pass Key? I’ll pass. by Lee Gross

Lee Gross — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:47:59 +0000

Had same problem with my 95 Olds. Had it fixed at my local starter, alternator shop for $35.00. Did not want to know what local dealer wanted. I very much appreciate the advice.You saved me a TON of cash. Thanks a MILLION! LEE

Comment on IE6 Nasty CSS Freeze by Kerry

Kerry — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:40:00 +0000

opps HTML removed fixed 1. which is wrap the text in NOBR tags

Comment on IE6 Nasty CSS Freeze by Kerry

Kerry — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:38:21 +0000

The main cause is the style white-space: nowrap;
This is a “known” bug in IE6 and fixed in IE7

There are 2 workarounds to this issue
1. wrap the text in . This can still cause issues in somecases.
2. replace all spaces with

The later works best.

Comment on Installing Rails without root by Matt Harvey

Matt Harvey — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:53:07 +0000

I doubt anyone would install under /, if that’s what you mean. For myself I typically install under /usr/local as the root user (which is the same as leaving out –prefix).

I wrote this up when I was trying to help someone who wanted to install it as the root user but under /opt/rails, which is kind of a strange place to put Ruby, but whatever. That particular person was having continued difficulties despite more terse advice about how to use –prefix.

There are other variations, like system-installed Ruby but with your gems somewhere else, but I wanted to keep it simple here.

Comment on Installing Rails without root by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:51:34 +0000

why on earth would anyone install this from root?

Comment on Rails: Render in a model by Vidal Graupera

Vidal Graupera — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:04:21 +0000

Thanks, I had looked at those other examples and also had problems with URL generation. Extremely clever your approach!

Comment on IE6 Nasty CSS Freeze by Max

Max — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:58:48 +0000

Had the same problem with IE6 and CSS but I had to delete »white-space: no-wrap;« now it works

Comment on IE6 Nasty CSS Freeze by Golly99

Golly99 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:42:41 +0000

sweet yo………………..had a big prod issue with this ONE………..thank yo so much. Solved my problem.

i love Bill Gates……………………and his IE