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PCI Compliance doesn't like the Desktop Services Store
The Desktop Services Store (DS_Store) as you probably already know, is a file that stores some metadata about the files in a directory in the OS X. I've taken a look at them, they seem pretty harmless, but in the [...]
All it took was owning an iPhone for a week ...
... to completely sway my opinion of the brand. The Friday before Father's Day I broke down and bought a 27" iMac to replace my 4 year old Dell PC with absolutely no intention of running Linux on it. Since [...]
Dumping Android for an iPhone
This should probably be accompanied by a formal press release, but I've dumped my Android phone for an iPhone 4S. As of late, I've been comparing Android to Linux in the mid-to-late 90s. It's great if you like to fight [...]
Online Tools
I'll admit it, I'll fire up a web browser for some things that could easily be accomplished with php -a (or any other interactive shell that I don't frequent). Sad part is, I typically Google it and then end up [...]
Drain your InnoDB Buffer Pool by moving large fields out of MySQL
This was supposed to be a "SceneKids.com the first year" post, but nothing has really changed too much since the 8 month post with the exception of expanding out with additional websites on the same platform. Instead, I'm going to [...]
Movie Review: The Human Centipede 2
I don't typically do movie reviews, but I needed to document my disgust in The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence. First off, I am a huge fan of the first Human Centipede flick. It was a total mind fuck without [...]
The stylesheet doesn't seem to be loading
You may have already noticed but my blog recently received an "unvamping" and has been stripped of nearly all CSS (there's a small bit to set the body width since I forgot how that could be done without CSS :-O) [...]
ID Much?! Site's gone, but the dream's still alive
This is less of an update and more me wanting to stash this image. In my effort to focus and not waste time on "weekend sites" idmuch.com is expired and long gone. What's not long gone is the concept. I [...]
My Search for the Perfect Desktop Environment Part 3: Xmonad, Gnome Shell and back again
In case you missed it, here's part 1 and part 2 of this series. Shortly after becoming disenchanted with OSX again, Dean Jones introduced me to Xmonad as he recently has switched over to it. Around that same time, I [...]
My Search for the Perfect Desktop Environment Part 2: How I spent 2 weeks attempting to be an Apple Fanboy
In case you missed it, here's part 1 of this series. So earlier this year I got my hands on an 11" Macbook Air that we had laying around the office. This was around the same time my 14" Dell [...]