Year: 2008

  • Linux: Finding Newer Files [OR How To Create A Patch File]

    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…


  • 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,…


  • 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…