Archive for the 'Howto/Tutorial' Category

Google Chrome and the /etc/hosts file

I've switched to using Chrome recently as my browser of choice but recently came across a rather annoying problem with it. I was writing a new ...

Dynamically Defined Targets for Remote Tasks in Vlad

Typically things like Vlad and Capistrano make the assumption you already know where you want to run your tasks. They assume you already have some ...

New Phone Firmware

I've been holding off upgrading the firmware on my G1 due to fears about warranties and bricking my primary communications device but my phone was ...

Titanium and other developments

I've been playing around with Appcelerator's Titanium system and so far it's been interesting. I haven't done very much in the way of app development ...

Disk Recovery

Well, that was pretty cool, I just managed to recover the data off of a dying 30GB hard drive on my friends laptop. It was ...

Macbook Triple-Boot with OSX Leopard, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.04

Well, since my macbook decided to screw up after a failed software update under OSX (thanks Apple) I decided to rebuild my system from scratch. Since ...