Month: July 2009

OSX – right click, attach a file to a new email message

Maybe I am just a new age Mac guy – or because I am a convert, but I love my right mouse button.  I was using a PowerPC iMac for a while and kept wanting to throw it across the room, because it was using one of the old apple mice that only had a single click… ARG!

Anyway,  here is a trick to add a short cut to the OSX Right click menu. Ever spend several minutes searching for a file and then have to go through the hassle of starting a new email message to attach the file to …

check this out.

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Configure a cPanel system to do Subject: tagging with SpamAssassin and Exim

By efault, on a cpanel system, Spam Assassin doesn’t allow the subject line rewriting.  I find it a quick short cut to be able to glace at the subject line and tell if the email is junk or not … Here is how to enable it.  Requires root level access on the server.

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Wondering if a site is running Joomla?

So what, I am a Joomla Hacker 🙂

I have tried several different ways myself to hide the fact that sites are running Joomla – from hacking in a custom path to the template directory, to using mod_rewrite to simplfy URL references to the /plugins/… directory.

One quick and dirty trick I have found that seems to always bypass these hacks is by appending ?tp=1 onto a URL that I think may be a Joomla site … the parameter tp=1 is a trick that tells Joomla to display its module positions.

So, try it yourself – where else?  http://joomla.com

 

Fedora 11 updates – Mirrors broken

Yuk – Switched to Fedora 11 recently – ran into problems today installing updates …

http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/fedora/linux/updates/11/i386/grubby-6.0.87-1.fc11.i586.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.lib.ucdavis.edu/fedora/linux/updates/11/i386/grubby-6.0.87-1.fc11.i586.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/fedora/linux/updates/11/i386/grubby-6.0.87-1.fc11.i586.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/updates/11/i386/grubby-6.0.87-1.fc11.i586.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.uoregon.edu/fedora/linux/updates/11/i386/grubby-6.0.87-1.fc11.i586.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.

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OSX – Right click to play VIDEO_TS folders

Cool.  Have a bunch of DVD VIDEO_TS folders on your hard drive?  Use Automator to open them with DVD player

First, find a VIDEO_TS folder on your hard drive – right click, go to “More” -> “Automator” -> “Create Workflow”. 

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