There I Fixed It!

Posted by | Posted in computers, RealLife | Posted on 14-04-2011

Last weekend I did some upgrades on my computer (failing hard drive/OS) and while I was at it, figured I would install Windows 7 instead of XP. Well, aside from a period of 20 minutes where the screen was blank and mouseless and it was thinking really, really hard before displaying the login screen after SP1 (showed up while I was frantically searching for solutions – and boots fine now so… >.> ) everything had so far started working with little to no issues.

Today, I wanted to burn something to DVD – Windows 7 saw what my optical drive was, had already loaded in the drivers (it was on the compatible hardware list) and read everything fine, but…. wouldn’t recognize it as a device capable of burning.

I go out searching for possibly solutions, and come up with Microsoft FixIt (and specifically for DVD issues if someone comes across this needing a fix.).

But when I see this:
Microsoft Fixit

Microsoft Fixit

all I can think of is this:

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rails console errors on start “`require’: no such file to load — readline (LoadError)”

Posted by | Posted in code, computers, Work | Posted on 28-10-2009

I was getting this:

Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.2)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10:in `require’: no such file to load — readline (LoadError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:252:in `require’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:252:in `load_modules’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:250:in `each’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:250:in `load_modules’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:21:in `setup’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:54:in `start’
from /usr/local/bin/irb:13

Whenever I tried to use the console.  Some helpfull google searching got me this:
http://dirk.net/2009/04/05/no-such-file-to-load-readline-loaderror-when-running-scriptconsole/

Which worked wonders.

I  also caught that I pretty much stick everything I’ve added to my work comp in my home directory.  I have no time for basic organization apparently.

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