Alex Moening

Updated Firefox Addons

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:20:40 +0000

Here is what I use for my “work” profile:

- Cache Status 0.7.10
- Clear Cache Button 0.9f
- ColorfulTabs 8.0
- ColorZilla 2.6.4
- Download Statusbar 0.9.10
- DownloadHelper 4.9.8
- Extension List Dumper 1.15.2 <– made this list
- Firebug 1.9.0
- Firecookie 1.4
- Firefinder for Firebug 1.04 (Disabled, Incompatible)
- FirePHP 0.6.2
- FoxyProxy Standard 3.4
- Greasemonkey 0.9.13
- HttpFox 0.8.10
- LastPass 1.80.0
- MeasureIt 0.4.10
- PageRank Client 1.2
- Poster 3.1.0
- Regular Expressions Tester 3.2.11
- Tree Style Tab 0.13.2011121501
- User Agent Switcher 0.7.3
- View Source Chart 3.05
- Wappalyzer 2.0.2
- Web Developer 1.1.9
- YSlow 3.0.4

Also recommended that to use profiles to manage a lighter firefox for just plane web surfing instead of a bloated one for picking apart websites.. See http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Managing-profiles for more details.

Running…Yoga…Meditation

admin — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:54:22 +0000

Really getting into running and in general health / fitness / wellness. Started in July with a realization that snowboarding season is right around the corner. The plan initially was run 3x a week, and just try to build up to mile. Last week I did a 10 mile jog on Sat and then a 20 mile run on Sun. Down 25 lbs by eating “right” most days of the week. I still run 3x durring the week just now its a 5, 8, 5 mile run. My perfect day starts at 4-5AM with the usual treck down through Golden Gate Park. Working on bringing my pace below 7min miles. I hit the hills to spice it up. Once done with the run hitting up 15min core training, then 30min yoga, and finally 10min of silent meditation. This routine makes me feel amazing. The “runners high” alone but then the sustained increased energy level.. Anyone can do it… just go for it..

Owasp – A wealth of web security information.

admin — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:52:02 +0000

Just stumbled across this web application security site (https://www.owasp.org). Neat stuff!

Android mod notes (fun with Cyanogenmod)

admin — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:34:02 +0000

I got the idea from a bud (props VJ) at work to give my G2 (HTC Vision) a facelift / Gingerbread update with CyanogenMod . I messed it up a few times… 3rd times the charm ya know. Here are some notes about what went right / wrong.

First a few links:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/

http://www.clockworkmod.com/

Used VISIONary to “perma root”.
Backup original VIRGIN ROM FIRST with ROM Manager.
Backup all SD card data.
Update radio baseband (improves battery life and radio functions)..

Now to some of the bad stuff:
OK first & second mistake I got into a bootloop twice from troubleshooting what I am sure is an Titanium Backup issue. When I did my backup ROM & SD card I also used Titanium Backup for app data and settings in the thinking that I could just flash and then bam run Titanium Backup and have all my app data ready to go. Each time I re-flashed the ROM everything would work great but then I would use Titanium Backup restore App+Data and immediately after I would get these random msg “Sorry! The process android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.”. I read that running permission fix in the ROM Manager App could help… each time I did that I got into a bootloop..

Good news is I was wise and took backups ROMs before starting so just refreshed using the troubleshooting method outlined in this helpful guide got me back up.

REMEMBER TO BACKUP YOUR VIRGIN ROM!!!

I am still using Titanium Backup but this time I took a Backup ROM when Cyanogenmod 7 was tweaked just right. Also avoid repairing permissions in the ROM Manager.

Some of the key bennies I can see already:
Longer batter life
More control of everything…
Neat new animations.
The automatic backlight control is tweakable… so much better now!
“Render effects” – Night aka club mode (All red), allows for changing of the color temperature.
Theres sooo much in this mod I have just barely scratched the surface…

Updated resume for 2010.

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:47:51 +0000

In a new Ops/”Salse Engineer” position for the past few months so I decided to update my resume.

AlexMoening2011-SE-Resume-LINK

Thanks for looking..

Importing / ripping tunes off mix CDs

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:04:57 +0000

Here are some notes about ripping audio MIX cds with iTunes.

Use LAME or Itunes-LAME.

I use “–preset fast extreme” in the presets for LAME.

Neat ftp automation (Finder – right click ftp to..) oneway

admin — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:17:21 +0000

Nice app for automating ftp uploads in the finder. Check it: LINK

Tools for picking up the bits and pieces…

admin — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:37:52 +0000

Partedmagic Live Disk (Ghost4Linux | partition tools)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/

nlite (Slipstreaming XP – Sp & Drivers)
http://www.nliteos.com/

Bartpe (windows live disk – lossa plugins)
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder

DriverPacks (add these to Bartpe|nlite – for no driver issues )
http://driverpacks.net/
Tutorial:
http://users.telenet.be/jtdoom/basetute/Eng_tut6b.htm

Method for tab renaming in OSX terminal.app

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:20:39 +0000

New method for renaming tabs is to place the following code in the (.bashrc or .profile):

export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'

Works great!

How to migrate a Bootcamp partition.

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:57:47 +0000

I found & secussfully used a cool program called go figure WinClone LINK to backup my Bootcamp partition to an image and re-image it into place on my new computer. I was migrating my accounts from one computer to another & I released I had no way of backing up my MS partition. In comes WinClone which works great! I just placed the old computer in “Target” firewire mode & copied out the M$ partition to a disk image on my new computer. Then partitioned and re-imaged the M$ Bootcamp on the new system.

Took 20 min tops.