If you have zipped up a directory from a Mac OSX machine and unzipped it on a linux box, chances are you have heaps of hidden files that look like ._myfile and ._mydirectory – these are files that OSX uses to keep track of additional information about your files. To remove these, do the following [...]
We’re started using Joomla as our CMS for a new website we’ve been developing. One of the key functions we wanted was the ability to display article ‘snippets’ on the front page including a thumbnail image from the article. The MiniFrontpage Joomla extension provides exactly this functionality – so we installed it. Everything was working [...]
To export all your RSS feeds from Mac Mail as a list, open up terminal and enter the following on a single line: IFS=$’\n’;for i in $(find ~/Library/Mail/RSS/ -name “Info.plist”);do grep “<string>http://” $i | sed “s/.*\(http[^<]*\).*/\1/”;done Thanks to macosxhints.com for this one!
As long as you have SSH access, you can still access ports on a remote server which are blocked via a firewall. You simply need to use a function of the SSH protocol called Port Forwarding (or Tunneling). This process allows you to open a port on your local machine, which is forwarded via SSH [...]
I’ve been trying to work out how fast a server that I maintain is (in Mhz). The simplest way to do this is to follow these instructions: Enter the following command: dmidecode | grep “Current Speed” | head -n 1 And you should receive output like this: Current Speed: 3400 MHz
If you’re in the process of setting up a new server, and you want users to have the ability to execute scripts in their home directory: http://myserver.com/~myname You will often run into problems with suexec. suexec is an apache security construct to stop users from executing scripts outside of a known path. I was recieving [...]
I came across the following error while trying to connect to an LDAP server over HTTPS using the Perl module SOAP::Lite: Can’t locate object method “new” via package “LWP::Protocol::https::Socket” The way to fix this problem is to install the Crypt::SSLeay module from CPAN. Hope that helps someone!
This might sound like a really really simple thing to do, but it actually took me a little while to work out how to do this. To list all the available packages available for update, use the command: yum list available To update all packages on your system to the latest version, use the command: [...]
If you’ve used the SimpleXML functions in PHP, you may have noticed some strange things happening with CDATA values in your XML file/string. All I needed to do was extract the value of my CDATA fields, however these were always coming back blank in the structure that simplexml_load_file returns. Finally, after hours of trawling google, [...]
We have been having problems sending emails from our mail server (running Kerio) to a particular domain over the past few weeks. We kept receiving bounce emails with the following: 550 Rule imposed. Sender using invalid hostname in greeting as per RFC specification. After trying all manner of solutions, it turned out to be a problem with [...]
Recently I needed to change the end of one of our domains from .com to .org. However we wanted to maintain any old links that pointed at the .com domain. Using mod_rewrite you can achieve this move seamlessly for users, and keep all the parameters in tact. Simply add the following lines to your .htaccess [...]
If you’ve downloaded AVI files and tried to play them in Quicktime, only to discover that they don’t play with any audio, then try installing A52Codec. It provides a codec for AC3 audio in quicktime, with the following features: Multi-channel decoding of AC3 audio (can do full 5.1 decoding). Implemented as a core-audio component so [...]
Installing the GD library is easy on CentOS thanks to yum. Simply type: yum install gd gd-devel php-gd And all your GD fun is installed and ready to go. I was trying to install the Perl module GD::Graph and it wouldn’t compile, complaining: GD.xs:7:16: error: gd.h: No such file or directory After installing the GD-Devel [...]
Recently my Bluetooth on my MacBook Pro stopped working without warning. The bluetooth icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen displayed with a line through it, and showed “Bluetooth Not Available” when I clicked on it. This was REALLY annoying as I use a bluetooth mouse on my Macbook Pro. Thankfully, it was [...]
I now use Microsoft Word 2008 (Microsoft Word 2007 if you are on windows) to edit my Word Documents. It has heaps of handy new features that I like and makes my documents look heaps better than the older versions of Microsoft Word. However this can cause problems for people who don’t have Microsoft Office [...]
The following is a really useful .htaccess configuration options to allow certain IP address to access a site without a password, while requiring everyone else to enter a password: AuthName “My Secret Page Here” AuthUserFile /sites/apache-passwords AuthType Basic Require valid-user Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 171.231.12.8 Satisfy Any Some really handy examples are [...]