Tag Archives: Guides

Mac-tacular backups, Apple, and OSX

Posted on March 17, 2012 by samurai

This post started out as a bit of a rant about back-ups I needed to make, due to a dieing Mac Book Pro.  Over the course of writing it, I’ve come across a few other issues and have looped in … Continue reading →

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PHP + xdebug

Posted on July 26, 2011 by richo

Since starting my new job, I’m increasingly trying to debug what can only be described as an epic clusterfuck of spaghetti php. To make this easier I stumbled upon xdebug, and wouldn’t you know it, one of the best clients … Continue reading →

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Mental note on Windows 7 under ESXi 4.0

Posted on June 4, 2011 by samurai

For the last year or so I’ve been running windows 7 under ESXi and due to a few issues I’ve had to re-install more than once.  Each time I go through the install process I seem to bump into a … Continue reading →

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titles in GNU screen

Posted on March 10, 2011 by richo

I love screen. (Though I am contemplating a migration to tmux, pending hackery) But one thing I /hate/ is having to manually title windows. Enter this hack (Currently only works with zsh afaik, but if you know the name of … Continue reading →

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Joining the cult: richo’s vimrc

Posted on December 9, 2010 by richo

This blog post is about vim. As many of you know, I use vim for everything, day to day work, editing config, in depth programming and a few other things. I’m going to break my vimrc down into chunks and … Continue reading →

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Hacking together procmail mail filtering on a shared host

Posted on October 20, 2010 by richo

The first thing we did was establish what access we did have, in this case a shell on the machine (jailshell), physical access to the Maildir, and access to a batch job scheduler (cron). This is enough to hack together … Continue reading →

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