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RubyGems needs 512 to upgrade itself.

After watching a rather sloppy rugby game in which the All Blacks couldn’t hold onto a ball to save themselves I jumped back online to find my gem updating process was still using lots of memory and no cpu.  After being amused by the comparison to the rugby game I killed it and got slicehost [...]

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Apache, It Works!

I was looking through the slicehost article section the other night and bumped into an awesome article on initial configuration steps for ubuntu.  If you don’t know what your doing, you should go take a look at that.
So, anyway.  I’ve got a server up and going doing absolutely nothing, and I’m assuming you do too [...]

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