I'm currently in the market for a external hard-drive with about 250-300GB of storage that I can also boot my mac from in an emergency (so it'll need to have firewire). I've looked at the usual suspects, Lacie, iomega but nothing stands out. Let…
Picture this; you come back from lunch at "My Old Dutch Pancake house" and every one of your ssh connections has been closed due to lack of activity. It's reasonable that the server you are connected to (or the hardware you are connecting through) closes connections…
So just for those of you who don't yet know, my fiance and I are expecting our second baby due in late November. Last week we went to have the first scan and the pictures that came out were really good. This scan seemed almost as detailed as…
My new job at Multimap involves plenty of command line work and as I am working on a mac 100%, it's been well worth trying to find a set-up that makes it easy to switch between shells on multiple servers and directories. Initially I thought it would make…
So the new MacBook Pro [http://www.apple.com/macbook/macbook.html] is out and it looks very good. The core spec is not that far off the MacBook Pro but is available at a much lower pricepoint. The main difference is that with the MacBook you only get an…
I have been looking for an equivalent for the mac only Feed reader software NetNewsWire [http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/] on Windows and I think I have found something that comes the closest yet. FeedReader [http://www.feedreader.com/] is a free RSS reader for Windows written by Toomas Toots. I…
Tim's Loopy Control Structures [http://nefariousdesigns.co.uk/archive/2006/05/loopy/] is an in-depth post detailing the ins and outs of programming control structures. Makes good follow up reading as to my recent getElementsByClassName script [https://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2006/04/29/getelementsbyclassname-deluxe-edition/]. Tim was one…
Anyone who's into JavaScript will most likely have written their own take on a getElementsByClassName function. I had a look around at a few recent examples and then decided to do my own version for fun. Out of all of the functions I looked at Robert Nyman'…