Christian Biggins

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Why do the guys behind jailbreaking iPhones need to make their information so difficult to understand? More people would jail break if they knew how easy it was to do.
For the record, a jail broken iPhone (or iPod Touch) is one that can install software from sources other than iTunes. This has many advantages that [...]

Recently I was trying to upgrade using Yum on my Fedora 9 machine and I got an awful message that I did not have enough space to complete the upgrade. What the hell? My / partition has a huge 10GB, how can this be so?
[root@Garth Download]# df -hFilesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/sda2             9.5G  [...]

grep is a file content searching tool for Linux. It is loved by programmers for its ease of use and swift search results (with customisable output). For example, if you forgot where you left your debug code, you can quickly display a list of the files that contain the code like so;
grep -ril ‘var_dump’ *

But, [...]

A lot of people these days use graphical clients for creating their database schema’s and therefor start with the Entity Relationship diagram and then have it generate the SQL for them. I prefer to write SQL directly as I seem to have an ongoing misunderstanding with most graphical clients but then I would need to [...]

‘The Bird’ cursor

About a year ago I came up with a funny idea to replace the finger cursor on links to a slightly modified version that I like to call ‘The Bird’.
I drafted my friend Lauren to do the work as I am not as useful behind a Photoshop enabled pc as she is.
Anyway as I [...]

Competition

I understand that this blog isn’t exactly artsy and crafty and to be honest, while I appreciate nice home made stuff, I’m more inclined to build myself a mulcher and vege garden with rain water drip irrigation than I am to say, sew something. But, when its all said and done, I do dig nice [...]

Movember 2008

While I have come to terms with the fact that I will never be able to grow a decent beard and my moustaches look a little like patchy vegemite, I have still entered Movember every year since 2008. Sadly, I don’t get much support doing it and most people just chuckle at me and [...]

Ciao Baci

Say hello to the new Biggins family member, Baci!

Baci (meaning ‘Kisses’ in Italian) is an 8 week old Golden Labrador. She is beautiful and highly destructive. We’ve already had to buy a new power cable for my wifes Dell Laptop.
 

I was able to get these rare shots when she was tuckered out [...]

The final countdown on a Kazookeylele!

Pure Genius!

No developer likes to merge their code in with other code after finishing a big project. Its a royal pain in the ass. I find myself having to do it at work a lot (we have a largish team) and at home because at home, I somehow find that I have 84 copies of the [...]

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