Perl regex to capitalize each word

I always forget how to use Perl regex to capitalize every word in a string buffer. So here it is for future reference:

$buffer =~ s/\b\w/\u\L$&/g;

Empty Firefox Search Bar

In my 1.5.0.9 Windows version of Firefox, all the search sites in the Search Bar disappeared one day. Didn't realized how much I used that Search Bar until it wasn't functional. I tried reinstalling the app, and when that didn't fix anything, I suspected that the problem was in the user specific application data. I deleted the Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox directory and all my settings got cleared.

I've customized my Firefox so much that it was going to be a pain to redo all the settings and so I restored my settings directory from the trash and proceeded to wade through the Profiles directory and removed one file at a time to figure out which caused the Search Bar to come back.

In the end, it was the localstore.rdf file that turned out to be corrupted. When I removed it, my Search Bar returned to normal. Yay!

Synchronizing Time on Windows

Details can be found by following the title link. In short, though WinXP has an "Internet Time" tab on the "Date & Time" control panel, other versions of Win32 doesn't. For all versions, you can sync your Windows machine time by first setting a time server:

net time /setsntp:tick.usno.navy.mil

and then syncing the time:

net time /set

If your time service is not already setup, read the article. The US Naval Observatory has a backup time server named tock.usno.navy.mil; so if tick doesn't work, try tock. A Microsoft web page has a list of time servers that are available on the Internet.