May 5, 2020 / by Rimu Atkinson / Resources
As we’re all staying home, students, teachers and workers may find this list of free software useful. These programs are free of cost and free to be changed by anyone, and most are available for various operating systems. Many of these have closed source proprietary equivalents so this list will mostly be of interest to […]
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COVID-19: Free Educational Software for Teaching and Working from Home
May 5, 2020 / by Rimu Atkinson / Resources
As we’re all staying home, students, teachers and workers may find this list of free software useful. These programs are free of cost and free to be changed by anyone, and most are available for various operating systems. Many of these have closed source proprietary equivalents so this list will mostly be of interest to […]
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Options for cafes and restaurants to take orders online in New Zealand
April 29, 2020 / by Rimu Atkinson / Resources
Recently there have been a huge influx of new services offering to smooth the way to New Zealand cafes and restaurants who need to star taking online orders. Uber Eats is a well known option but many don’t really need the delivery part of the equation and balk at their high transaction cost. On the […]
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rails error: IOError: Couldn’t load the unicode tables for UTF8Handler (dump format error(0xb))
November 21, 2008 / by Rimu Atkinson / Resources / 0 comments
Argh I can’t believe how long it took for me to track this one down. No one else on the internet had reported the problem before, so trusty ole google was no help. So I’m putting this one out there, to help others. This error is caused when a file vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/values/unicode_tables.dat becomes corrupted. The easiest […]
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