Yes, I haven’t posted much lately. Just a quick little tip, since it came in handy today.

Grep accepts a --color argument which highlights matches in color (assuming your terminal supports it). Passing grep --color=always and piping the output into less -R will allow you to scroll through …

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We were seeing some strange behavior with Mac client machines on the network lately, specifically with DNS queries (I’d guess that a lot of it has to do with Bonjour), but the discussion touched on the DNS Changer trojan for Mac. I’d really never heard about it before …

Ok, I’ll admit it, I’ve been playing WoW. I’m not usually the gamer type, but my girlfriend pressured me into it a bit and, hey, if a woman’s idea of quality time is sitting in the same room in front of computers playing a MMORPG, who …

As of this morning, my Motorola Droid was still running rooted 2.0.1 (build ESD56, baseband C_01.3E.01P) with SPRecovery 0.99.2b. Well yesterday I for the random deletion of all SMS bug again, and I decided it’s time to upgrade. I never upgraded to 2 …

While working on a particularly long documentation page in MediaWiki today, I came by a convenient little extension:

Section Link To Top

It adds a nice little “top” link next to the “edit” link in each section header. Very useful for long pages.

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 …

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 …

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 …