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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...
View ArticleOutlook 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,...
View ArticleBoot 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...
View ArticleEasy 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...
View ArticleOpen 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...
View ArticleYour 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...
View ArticleWebsite 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleA 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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