http://blog.errorok.com A library of useless knowledge Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:36:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick posting that i had planned to do over a year ago. Way back when i first got myself into tennis mode, I started scanning Edmonton for tennis courts. I did the scanning on google maps, and my result was a pretty filled set of tennis ... http://blog.errorok.com/2010/03/08/160/ Return of Capital (or RoC) distributions are sometimes sold as tax free distributions. This is true, but not without some hidden knowledge. True, you do get the distribution tax free; but false, you WILL have to pay taxes on your investment. RoC works like the following: Invest $1000 ... http://blog.errorok.com/2010/03/08/198/ It took me a while to get going, but i have finally decided to get moving on my smith manoeuvre. My SM is going to differ slightly from the standard approach, mostly due to my home equity still being relatively low (until i have my house re-appraised in the ... http://blog.errorok.com/2010/03/08/195/ This is just a quick follow-up to my earlier post. I now have the rtorrent package source up and running on my ppa. So now you just need to do the following: echo -e "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/patricksissons/rtorrent/ubuntu karmic main \ndeb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/patricksissons/rtorrent/ubuntu karmic main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rtorrent.list && sudo apt-get ... http://blog.errorok.com/2010/02/26/191/ I wanted to play around with some of my new work the last few days, so i decided to mash up one of my beta projects with a chance to learn the google visualization api. My beta project was a research project on ruby, Hpricot, and XPath. you can see ... http://blog.errorok.com/2010/02/25/189/ So after discovering that my quick and dirty rtorrent fix didn't actually fix what i needed it to (xmlrpc stuff, specifically), I decided to instead look into setting up a ppa on launchpad to host some of my custom packages. So here is a quick guide on how to ... http://blog.errorok.com/2010/02/24/186/ here is a quick and easy way to upgrade to the latest rtorrent on karmic. Basically we just snag it from lucid. There are two basic methods to do this, the easiest is debatable between the two. Personally, i just tried method one, but i'm sure method two would ... http://blog.errorok.com/2010/02/07/182/ I really like chrome, but something that is an absolute must is a SOCKS5 proxy.  This is due to my ultra restrictive corporate firewall, i need to tunnel http content through an ssh tunnel.  And ssh creates a SOCKS5 proxy when you use the -D option.  Chrome seems like it ... http://blog.errorok.com/2009/12/21/175/ Hpricot is a cool tool for ruby that performs fast and efficient web page scraping by leveraging the DOM in a web page and the power of XPath. The DOM is just a tree structure (defined in the HTML code), and XPath lets you query this this tree structure ... http://blog.errorok.com/2009/09/28/173/ I know a lot of people will be searching for this title, so hopefully google directs them here so that they can quickly apply this solution to their "problem" First off, this is *NOT* an actual version of yakuake for windows, for that you will have to wait for the required ... http://blog.errorok.com/2009/05/26/168/