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I am a big fan of the cygwin suite of UNIX tools for windows, but one of my biggest annoyances was that the shell you run in cygwin is always displayed in the most horrid terminal environment...

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Outlook Header Annoyance

One of the worst thing Microsoft Outlook ever did for the Internet was decide that when someone forwards a message, they don’t need to include any of the SMTP headers along with it. This, of course,...

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Boot Camp: Apple Hardware + MS Ubiquity

Apple continues to make headway in their attempt to remove the barriers that have divided the Mac/Windows world for so long. By now, everyone is well aware that Apple is moving the Mac platform to...

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Easy way to burn an ISO

If you own a single slot CD-R, you may wonder how you’re supposed to burn copies of your disks and/or make exact images of your distributions. One popular way is to create an ‘Image’ of your CD-ROM in...

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Open Source Office can handle Blackberry

CentreSource has jumped on the Blackberry bandwagon! After complaining for months that I spend too much time with email, I gave up trying to avoid the problem and simply decided to further my addiction...

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Your cheatin’ brain

“I’m trying to think, but nothing happens.” – Curly Crib notes, quick guides, Cliff Notes, cheat sheets – whatever you choose to call them, they come in handy when the web developer brain goes...

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Website Grabber | Offline Browser

Today, we had a client call us and ask if we can ‘save’ their website from an aggressive website designer that is holding their site hostage.  I told them yes and thought an easy solution would be to...

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A Confederacy of OSes, Part I

So, recently I’ve been trying an experiment: I’ve been using Windows 7 as a base OS for my primary development box. Why did I do this, and how has it been? Allow me to explain. I have been a *-nix man...

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A Confederacy of OSes, Part II

Continued from Part I Due to many factors, setting up Linux turned out to be Hell. Both the kernel and GRUB wouldn’t have the ability to recognize the aforementioned pseudo-RAID array as a single disk...

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A Confederacy of OSes, Part III

Read Part I and Part II So my strategy is as follows: I use Windows to run web browsers, the odd desktop app like Photoshop, handy GUI utilities like calculators, media playback, and the like. On top...

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