PHP Script to Dump Firefox Session

If you’re anything like me, you often find yourself working on multiple computers. Today I left a few tabs open in Firefox on my work laptop, and wanted to continue reading from my desktop. Normally I’d just grab the laptop, or RDP into it if it was my …

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My Droid Rooting Dilemma

My Droid is still running 2.0.1 rooted, with SPS Recovery, just as it was the week the 2.0.1 update was pushed out OTA - I’d already rooted it, disabled OTA updates, and performed a simple procedure to update and keep root.

My one complaint is that …

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PC vs Mac

Begin shameless rant…

When I read the “system requirements” for hardware these days, and see “PC or Mac”, I cringe. Surely someone who’s developing the hardware should understand the horrible inaccuracy of this.

The term “PC”, or Personal Computer, is used to refer to any hardware that is (at …

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Updated Android App List

Here’s the current list of the apps that are running on my Droid and seem interesting (I’m still running 2.0.1, build ESD56). This is an update to my earlier post, My Android Apps, so I left out everything that was already in that post.

This list …

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WiFi tether for Droid

My Motorola Droid (purchased on November 10th, 2009, 4 days after the release) is still running Android 2.0.1. I guess this is somewhat out of laziness - I love the Incredible and its new (and more refined) Android version and UI, but my phone is rooted. I’m …

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Putting the Why in Documentation

I work as a Linux Sysadmin (among many other non-official titles) in a small group that mainly provides services. We run wireless and student computing labs across a whole campus, but other than that (and most of that) is just back-end systems - web servers, RADIUS, DHCP, etc. As a result …

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Short Update

Just a short update… I know I haven’t posted anything in quite a while, but I hope to get back into the habit of doing so… or even making daily posts like I had wanted.

  1. The truck that was totaled has been replaced with a newer, nicer one.
  2. I …
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