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New Domains and DNS Services

I thought I’d share with you some good technical experiences that I’ve had recently.
I have moved my domains to new registrars, so that I could renew them for a full 10 years.
1. I moved my “.com” domains to DomainsMadeEasy.com
2. I moved my “.ca” domains to NamesPro.ca
I also started using a paid service for my DNS […]

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Digital Rights Management (DRM)

I recently read (Apple CEO) Steve Job’s writing “Thoughts on Music”. (http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/)

Now, I’ve had conversations about this kind of stuff with people before. If you were one of the people that I’ve talked to about this, you’ll know that I don’t like the idea nor the current industry implementations of DRM. I’m […]

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FileDisk ISO Mounter

Another Update: I have run into the same issue with Windows XP as many of the people who have posted comments below: the “Error loading C:\WINDOWS\system32\ShellExt\FileDisk.dll, Invalid access to memory location”. The solution I found is to add C:\WINDOWS\system32\Rundll32.exe (Run a DLL as an App) as an exception to your Data Execution Prevention (DEP) […]

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GPS Camera

I want my next digital camera to have GPS technology built-in. It would be cool to have a record of exactly where you were in the world (up to the meter) when you took each photograph. Not that I need a new camera, but I’m just saying.
I haven’t looked too too hard but […]

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Apache httpd failed to restart

Today I went to restart my apache web server and it failed. The following message were in the error_log

[Wed Oct 11 10:41:04 2006] [notice] SELinux policy enabled; httpd running as context user_u:system_r:httpd_t
[Wed Oct 11 10:41:04 2006] [crit] (28) No space left on device: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_log_lock
Configuration Failed

After some troubleshooting with the help […]

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Batch Sleep

I’ve written a fair number of batch scripts in my day. Useful for fairly simple to moderately simple tasks in Windows, batch scripting usually works without any extras required.
I just found a trick that allows a script to have delay time between executed statements, without needing extra .exe’s. It uses the ping command […]

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PHP Function Search (Firefox)

If you develop with PHP you know that php.net is a good resource for the language reference. Find yourself going to the site a lot?
Click the link below to add a PHP function list search to your Search Engine List in Firefox:
PHP Manual (EN)
I found this at http://mycroft.mozdev.org/
Enjoy!

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Stuff I’m Playing With

There are a number of things I’m playing with these days.
Hills of Japan
I’m still putting the finishing touches on the Hillsofjapan.com site adminstration web app that I built. I spent some good time on it last week and I want to get it running/to production very very shortly.
Server Rebuild
I still haven’t loaded all […]

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Notes From Rebuild to Fedora Core 5

I recently rebuilt my linux server using the latest release of Fedora Core (5). There were a number of things that I noted that I wanted to make sure I remember for next time… and maybe they can help you out too.

Apache 2
If you change your DocumentRoot you have to make sure that you […]

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Feeds for Steve

Steve Reimer, you should appreciate this.
Download feed script here.
Contained in the attached archive file is:

php class (feedcreator.class.php) that allows you to easily created web feeds on the fly. [FeedCreator 1.7.2-mod]
php script file (feed.php) that utilizes the class, with example code to pull feed data from a MySQL database
a symbolic link ‘feed’ that points to […]

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