My package has now become deprecated. You can still download the last version if you would like to.

MySQL/Ruby for Windows

The MySQL/Ruby database adapter for Windows is forthcoming — it’s floating about somewhere on my backup drive.

As a work around you can install MySQL/Ruby from RubyGems too, although you’ll miss out on Stefan Kaes’ performance improvements.

Check back soon!

Got any tips?

That sounds sustainable enough, until you watch this video update.

Mind you, I’m entirely for continuing the mission, but that video just made my heart sink. Are these the people that are supposed to stand up against Taliban forces that have been in training camps for I don’t know how many months?

I want to believe.

The fastest Windows Vista notebook we’ve tested this year is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we’ve tested this year–or for that matter, ever–is a Mac. Not a Dell, not a Toshiba, not even an Alienware. The $2419 (plus the price of a copy of Windows Vista, of course) MacBook Pro’s PC WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 88 beats Gateway’s E-265M by a single point, but the MacBook’s score is far more impressive simply because Apple couldn’t care less whether you run Windows.

That’s just golden.

According to [Socialist Party Member] Gerkens one solution is to provide Windows separately from the computer. In that way the customer himself can choose which operating system he would most like to use. “That would improve the market economy.”

My initial reaction: have they crazily come to their senses?

I don’t know though. The phrase “market economy” definitely has this capitalist ring to it, but what if we consider the near-monopoly that Microsoft has with its Windows operating system?

It’s a funny thing. One the one hand, monopolies are an entrepreneur’s ideal. On the other hand, it’s the driving force behind a socialist economic structure. The practical implications for the socialist thinking are interesting to gauge: monopolies are fine so long as they aren’t acquired by enterprises.

Is there fairness in that? Does it serve the public interest? There is a case to be made here, though it is surely not consistent from a practical point of view.

I realize that some of you will be looking for the Ruby database drivers and my HOWTO on how to install Windows XP from USB. Rest assured that I will be reinstating these pages shortly.

I will put up a review once I have gotten everything up and running.