Remove Unwanted Firefox Auto-Suggest Entries

Firefox 3 is awesome we all know that, but there are some things that that would just be nice to have. One of those things would be the ability to control what appears for the auto suggest when you type in the URL bar.
Most of the time FireFox does a very good job of figuring [...]

Controlling Twitter SMS notifications through code

It’s not secret my current favorite tech toys are my iPhone and Twitter.
I follow several hundred people of interest, and regularly use TwitterFon Pro, TweetDeck and Twitter.com to keep up with them all. For an elite group of people I follow on twitter I choose to have their updates pushed to me via SMS (text [...]

Let cURL do your heavy lifting

In a previous post, I talked about using cron to do your bidding. If you do a lot of web development like I do, you may have some web based tasks that you need to automate. A good example of this could be clearing a file cache or tipping of a script to rebuild your [...]

CRON will do your bidding

It’s common knowledge that everyone dreams about one day having their own evil robots to do their bidding… ok so maybe that just me
I’m not an electrical engineer, so my dreams of having a physical robots under my control most likely won’t come true, but I am a decent programmer and computer nerd, so the [...]

Solution for: MySQL server has gone away at mysqlhotcopy line 528

Recently I was backing up a large MySql database (several hundred megabytes), using the awesome MySqlHotCopy script, when I started getting the following error:
DBD::mysql::db do failed: MySQL server has gone away at mysqlhotcopy line 528.
I have no clue what that error means. mysqlhotcopyworked great on all of my other smaller databases. I did a little [...]

Troubleshooting: SoftException in Application.cpp:544

I recently moved all of my sites to a new dedicated web server. In the move my webhost helped me mirror my old applications and tilt them up on the new server. This is where my problems started, several of my applications just wouldnt run, they would throw out “500 errors”.
Checking my logs, the errors [...]

My Media Center Died, Time For A New One

I have blogged about it before, I have a HTPC (home theatre pc) running in my living room, hooked to my TV. I started off with MythTV, but settled on Window Media Center 2005.
When I first built the Media Center machine, I had basic cable, with no DVR, so I let the media center handle [...]

StarCraft in Ubuntu? YES, Drink the WINE!

In keeping in step with my new found love of StarCraft, I wanted to play it on my laptop. One problem… my laptop doesn’t run on windows or mac, its powered by UBUNTU!
I love running Ubuntu, and I have never found a reason why I would need windows on my laptop. Ubuntu does everything I [...]

/bin/rm: Argument list too long

I’m cleaning up my linux web server (the very one that powers this site), and I needed to delete some things that had been accumulation (spam mails). When say mean some, i mean over 100,000 files! I’m not a Linux whiz, but I can manage pretty well.
I tried to remove the files using “rm *”, [...]

Mentors last words: The hacker manifesto

Lurking around online this morning I ran across the hackers manifest, written by Mentor. I haven’t read this in a solid 10 years. Going over it again brought back found memories of 1993 and my x468 66mhz (my phone is faster then that now!), with a 14.4 kbps modem.
If you have never read Mentors famous [...]

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