By Ed Reckers on March 6, 2007
I’ve watched people search for character matches on Unix and Linux machines at times with not a lot of success. A very good way to make this search on a Unix/Linux box is to use the find, xargs, and grep commands: find . | xargs grep “criteria” This will allow you to search recursively for [...]
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By Ed Reckers on March 6, 2007
There’s a concept I’ve been thinking of lately, which I see no reason won’t be taking off within a few years. It’s a concept of an “IP Cloud”. Technically, it’s a centralized database of ip-associated user profiles compiled by all participating Web sites. These can be the user profiles collected by sites from eBay to [...]
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By Ed Reckers on March 5, 2007
Ok, here’s a little bonus. I spent some time importing blog posts from pMachine into TypePad the other day. To import the posts into TypePad you can use the Movable type import format. This format is discussed here: http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/docs/mtimport The issue I was continually up against was simple formatting issues. I spent way too long [...]
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By Ed Reckers on March 5, 2007
Quick notes on my implementation of Webalizer on multiple virtual hosts with Fedora Core 5. There is documentation that I used off the mrunix webalizer faq files. Mainly the INSTALL file. Here are the steps I followed: create ‘webalizer’ directory in /etc make a copy of the main webalizer.conf $ cp /etc/webalizer.conf /etc/webalizer/sitedomain.conf edit sitedomain.conf: [...]
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By Ed Reckers on March 5, 2007
I spent a few wasted minutes today trying to figure out how to remove the page title and url in the header and footer of a pdf document when converting from HTML to PDF while using Adobe Acrobat Distiller. This is what you’ll need to do to suppress the header and footer in an HTML to PDF [...]
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By Ed Reckers on March 3, 2007
I’ve just run into an issue with a double post of data. The issue I’m having, is that I’m sending order information to NetBilling. After about 600 order, I finally ran into a user that was charged twice, for the same product, at exactly the same time, but with a different transaction id, which of [...]
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By Ed Reckers on March 3, 2007
You can use the ‘cp’ command in Linux to copy a directory with all it’s files and accompanying sub directories with the following option: cp -r directoryname newdirectory Make sure that you do not tab through so as to create the backslash (I don’t know why that it, but it won’t work otherwise). That’s it. [...]
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By Ed Reckers on March 3, 2007
I’m looking at the documentation of WordPress Permalinks, more specifically, their “Pretty Permalinks“. What makes this hard is that I can’t easily find where they explain the instructions for creating the category/pagename link structure: site.com/category/post-name.html instructions. What you need to use and seems obvious now is %category%. You’ll need to visit: ‘Options’ => ‘Permalinks’ => [...]
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