The linux ‘find‘ command is very powerful, it has tonnes of switches and options that I’m not terribly familiar with. Even though I’ve been a LAMP developer for over 5 years, I don’t work on the command-line too often. Yesterday I ran into a problem that I had never tried to resolve before. I was working on a large project on a development server… OR How To Create A Patch File]">Read more »
Monthly Archives:: March 2008
Fix Firefox 3 URL Bar
Firefox 3 has an annoying new URL bar that takes up about 75px in screen real estate for each auto-completed URL. It’s referred to as richResults in about:config. In the previous beta releases you were able to manually add a preference to remove this feature. As of firefox 3 beta 4 (or maybe beta 3, i didn’t install that… URL Bar">Read more »
Rogers Please Get A Clue, Seriously!
Above is a screenshot of Roger’s latest mobile internet plan for blackberries. “1.5MB of data — enough for tons of picture uploads and profile updates” Um Rogers, I hate to break it to you, but most of my pictures are over 2MB. If you mouse-over the “legal” fine print it explains the data overages, “$10/MB for the first… Read more »
Thoughts on Online Privacy & How to Protect Yourself [OR How Facebook Can Save Your Identity]
The following is an excerpt of an email I wrote in response to this article Facebook can ruin your life. And so can MySpace, Bebo A lot of the current batch of social networks have very poorly designed privacy controls. On facebook for instance, it’s very hard to tell which of your contacts have access to… OR How Facebook Can Save Your Identity]">Read more »
Tivo Has Spoiled Me
Whenever I listen to live radio I always find myself wanting to pause the broadcast. Thanks a lot Tivo!