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iPhone Mail App Crashing

Thursday 26 August 2010 at 11:01 am

While the iPhone Mail App in iOS 4 has some really nice improvements there has definitely been a regression in stability. Recently I had an issue on my 3GS where the Mail App would constantly crash a couple seconds after starting. Here is how I fixed it without resetting the firmware.

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How To Build OpenSolaris

Tuesday 08 June 2010 at 11:00 am

Building any operating system from scratch is usually a daunting task. OpenSolaris is no exception. There are lots of steps that can easily be overlooked and here I attempt to simplify the entire process step by step.

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Skyla's First Roller Coaster Ride

Monday 17 May 2010 at 3:06 pm

This video was taken last summer (2009) when my daughter, age 5, went on her first "real" roller coaster ride. The looping roller coaster California Screamin' at Disney's California Adventure. Hilarious.

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PivotX with Lighttpd mod_rewrite

Saturday 15 May 2010 at 10:15 am

PivotX is a great open source blogging CMS. While PivotX is able to handle SEO friendly permalink URLs, it only comes with mod_rewrite rules specific to Apache. Here I show you how to convert those rules for use with Lighttpd.

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Insanum vs Tom Jones and Duke Nukem

Friday 14 May 2010 at 10:09 am

Here is a mashup I cooked up one day while playing around with Sony Acid. Cutting music with loops is tons of fun and I really like what I did with this one.

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Funny Kid Jokes

Thursday 13 May 2010 at 11:53 pm

For me, stupid kid jokes are always the funniest. These jokes are simple/clever plays on words and really make me laugh. Here are some of my favorites.

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Configuring a Solaris Serial Console

Thursday 13 May 2010 at 12:05 pm

I do a lot of Solaris and OpenSolaris driver development on x86 systems and there is nothing I hate more than debugging on a physically attached keyboard and monitor. A simple solution is to attach a KVM over IP dohickey but another (free) solution is to configure Solaris to use a serial console. This, of course, requires the Solaris box to be within “serial cable reach” length of the system you will be debugging from. Don't forget hooking up a console server to the serial port is pro...

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