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[OK, since I stupidly posted this over the July 4th week[end] and got no responses, let''s try it again...] As a perpetual Rails dabbler, I make an awful lot of typical beginner mistakes. And the logs are always either too verbose or too sparse to help me. And it started me thinking. I came from one of the largest production OLTP systems in the world, and the one thing that helped us manage troubleshooting in both development...

Hello all. In the shower the other day (where most of this sort of musing gets done, eh?) I was thinking about graceful degradation of audio signals. Let me apologise in advance if these are elementary concepts or if I demonstrate a complete lack of insight -- I don't rate even a dabbler status in the area of audio codecs. Anyway: If we have a 128kbs signal coming down a *udp* channel with close to 25% packet loss, it would be really nice if it sounded like a 96kbs signal, not a choppy 128kbs. Short question: is this possible and feasible? Extended question/scenario: It is of...

...t a view to have something like: Team Name Manager: Person1, Person 4 Programmer: Person2, Person 3 Designer: Person2 Lackey: Person3 With just a single find that :includes all the relevant people. I apologise if this isn''t very clear. The joys of not being a Ruby programmer but a Ruby dabbler ;) RJ -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

As a perpetual Rails dabbler, I make an awful lot of typical beginner mistakes. And the logs are always either too verbose or too sparse to help me. And it started me thinking. I came from one of the largest production OLTP systems in the world, and the one thing that helped us manage troubleshooting in both development and...

Hi all, I'm afraid that having spent yet another entire day floundering around in the world of icecast, I've really now got to the point of asking a difficult question. I set up an icecast server back in early 1999, and it seemed to work fine for months. We had a server crash here that meant I had to go and reget the sources to rebuild, and ever since then it has been nothing but

I constantly get told I should just create a DSL in Ruby, instead of having a separate, custom language. This has, unsurprisingly, come up multiple times here at OSCON. So, I decided I''d see if I could hack something up and see how it looked. This is the first thing I could come up with in terms of the basic functionality: #!/usr/bin/ruby class Base file "/etc/passwd",