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Bing Misses the mark – BING Failure #2
I have been doing a little Geneaology research lately and found that my Great Grandfather sold a family product named Laws’ Bluing – which was a laundry additive to whiten clothing. Google gives me 10 results for the search of “Laws Bluing”. As much as I hate it, I decided to give Bing.com a try. I think they missed the mark just a little …
Using mosmap on your Joomla Contact page
Want to integrate the mos_map plugin to appear on your Contact Us page? here’s how
Mac OSX : Controlling your CD/DVD Drive from the command line
One of the things I love about my Mac is the access to the *nix command line. Controlling your CD/DVD drive from the GUI is something that may work well on a “real” mac, but on my “hackintosh”, some times it doesn’t work as expected.
Crunchbag linux … i think i like it!
Update 2017 – The post below was written a couple years ago. CrunchBang has been discontinued but replaced by Bensen Lab’s Hydrogen.
Now based on Debian Jessie – this has been updated some what but still comes with much of the CrunchBang goodness 🙂
You can get Hydrogen here : https://www.bunsenlabs.org/
First impressions — hmmm … could be a keeper. for the terminal program alone … Crunchbag replaced gnome-terminal with Terminator. Took me a while to get used to it, but I think its going to become my primary terminal program.
Web “scraping” the easy way
Quick Intro: Say you go to the ABC website and want to get the contents of the alert at the top of the page, which is enclosed in a <div> with the class “alertContent”.
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.
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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