railsconfau.com validity questioned

Update Thu 26 Apr 2007
The website went down a while ago. Draw your own conclusions...

Update Wed 31 Jan 2007
The site now has a new logo.
The main sponsor "HeraHelios" now has it's first result in google. This page!

Update Tue 30 Jan 2007
The site was updated to say tickets will be on sale in late Feb.
The person behind the site wrote that it was a miscommunication within the company. What company and how many staff they have has is not known.


A website appeared two days ago announcing that tickets are on sale for a rails conference in Sydney this May. It looks like a total scam and the worst bit is they are
accepting payment for registrations!

• The advertised sponsor 'HeraHelios' doesn't turn up any results in Google.
• There are no speakers listed (in fact the site calls for speakers).
• They state they do not have a venue secured.

Yet the site suggests "Be sure to register soon as capacity is strictly limited."

It seems the organizers are not known to either Melbourne or Sydney's Rails user groups.

So railsconfau has many of the appearances of a scam. A scamming scam scam. Hope google picks up on this post. scam.

to look at the site, go to www . railsconfau . com

using edge capistrano [from the list]

Anyone wanting to play with edge capistrano, you can check it out via svn at:

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/tools/capistrano

You can build an edge gem by cd'ing to that directory and doing:

1. svn info. Find the line that says "Revision:" and mark the revision number.

2. rake PKG_BUILD= gem. Replace with the revision number.

3. Look in the pkg subdirectory. Install that gem file via "gem install pkg/"

- Jamis

Parallels Beta recovery

Smart Mark wrote the following to me and it worked.

"You installed parallels and it reminded you to
install the parallels tools and that the guest os
must be running. You start up the guest os
and proceed with the install. Windows pops up
a message saying it's detected new hardware and
you assume this is normal. Windows finds a video
driver and installs it and then says it has to reboot.
It reboots and you have a blank screen, you assume
it's hung and reset the virtual machine a couple of
times and eventually figure out that it's booting ok
it's just the video driver is foobar.

The fix is to boot windows in safe mode (with networking
enabled, not sure if that's necessary, it's just what I did)
and reinstall the parallels tools. This now installs the
real parallels video driver and when you reboot the guest
os everything is back to normal."

Parallels Beta ate my homework

WARNING! Back up your VM before trying Parallels Beta!!! It killed mine.

I just discovered that Parallels has a public Beta program.

"The latest development versions of Parallels Desktop for Mac introduced support for USB 2.0 devices, better support for Boot Camp partitions and Coherence mode, which lets you run Windows applications without “seeing” the Windows interface."
- MacWorld.com