I’m updating a site for a client that only has file access to his hosting account via a php file manager (extPlorer for Joomla to be precise). He needed uploaded a few flash videos (in excess of 15 Mb each) but extPlorer stated that the file limit for php was set to 8 Mb.
I...
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As you know Linux does not use drive letters like Windows does. All files are organized under a big tree hierarchy. We use the mount command to mount partitions and this is the same command used to mount remote windows partition or windows shares.
Please note that you’ll need to know the following:
Windows username and...
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I tried running Windows 7 on a machine that had a Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 card inside. Since the 5.1 is a decent card I see no reason to replace it just because windows 7 came along. Please note that these unofficial updated drivers also bring along Windows 64 bit support. A quick...
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The command ls can be made to show directories and permission but it will not display directory sizes. Then it’s time for other commands. For example on my hosting account there is no file manager installed and evidently x and kde is missing too so, to find out directory sizes I can use the...
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This is something useful: code to wake up a machine on lan using python. Since python is available on most devices now (symbian, maeom, windows, linux and so on) it’s pretty usefull. So, if you have machines that you want to be able to start this is the code to do it. I found...
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If you run an online business like an e-store or something similar you might want to show a button showing if your are available to chat via Yahoo Messenger.
This is a fairly easy job to do. All you have to do is to show this code somewhere on your site:
<a href="ymsgr:sendIM?YOUR_YM_ID">
<img src="http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=YOUR_YM_ID&m=g&t=1" border="0" alt=""...
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This is a growing list of DNS servers. I consul it from time to time maybe you’ll find it usefull too.
I also maintain a growing list of free dns servers.
RDS Sibiu, Romania: 213.154.124.1 and 193.231.252.1
Romtelecom – ClickNet, Romania: 193.231.100.130 and 193.231.100.134
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This is a growing list of Open DNS servers available around the world.
I also maintain a list of ip address of various isp providers.
Google DNS: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
OpenDNS: 208.67.220.220 and 208.67.222.222. Open DNS also makes available a third and fourth dns server with identical service to the first two 208.67.220.222 and 208.67.222.220
ScrubIT: 67.138.54.100 and...
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I installed windows xp maybe thousands of times and yet this is a new one. A client of mine has custom install cd’s that are Windows XP SP3 and include NVidia Graphics Drivers. All good and nice but they wanted to have the latest NVidia Graphic Drivers so I went on and downloaded the...
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When I was using KDE 3 I was pretty fond of the right click Open Terminal Here command. I was disapointed to see it gone in the latest incarnations of KDE . Until I stumbled upon dolphin’s integrated terminal. All you have to do is hit F4 inside a folder and at the bottom...
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