disable kernel debugging before using ubuntu’s kernel config
if you ever need to rebuild an ubuntu kernel beware when using their supplied config file from /boot/config-$(uname -r)
i went through this exercise recently and wasted quite a bit of time trying to figure out why my new kernel package including modules was over 700mb uncompressed when the original package is around 60mb uncompressed.
once i [...]
script to delete all iphone sms messages
my coworker, dan smith, recently expressed frustration with apple’s lack of bulk message deletion in the iphone sms app. sometimes our monitoring scripts go a little crazy and send hundreds of emails to us when things go wrong and its extremely tedious to delete these extra useless messages one at a time.
after jailbreaking my iphone [...]
my favorite iphone apps
after holding out and suffering with my treo 650 through the launch of the first iphone i couldn’t help myself when the iphone 3g came out and had to get one.
it’s awesome.
sure, it crashes at least once a day, apps randomly stop working, it doesn’t record video or send/receive mms, the on-screen keyboard takes some [...]