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 of all this, I have installed VirtualBox and the easy-to-install Windows version of Vagrant, running a VM with…
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 until later (I’m still not sure if GRUB does), so I first had to effectively wipe the filesystem in its…
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 for many years, starting with Mac OS X and it’s largely-FreeBSD/NetBSD-derived platform. I have…
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 find a utility that allowed us to easily clone/grab their website. I must say, I was surprised…
“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 ___________ . The guys at Smashing Magazine (we smash you with the information that will make your life easier. really.) have…
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 :) We purchased three new Blackberry 8703e’s and have now started the painful process of getting them to work in our…
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 the format of an ISO. The ISO file is an actual image-copy of the CD-ROM – not…
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 Intel x86 based machines. Significance: Cheaper hardware for everyone who loves the Mac OS. Now Apple emerges with a new…
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, renders the message useless to any poor administrator trying to track down a problem that a user is reporting….
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 (basically a glorified DOS window). Enter puttycyg — it allows you to use putty as a raw terminal…
