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FileZilla’s Quickconnect List

Posted on January 3, 2011 by cyberx86
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My preferred FTP client has, for a long time, been FileZilla. To connect to a FTP account, I generally select the account from the Quickconnect menu, as I am sure many others do. However, I find that sometimes on connecting … Continue reading →

Posted in: Software Tagged: filezilla, ftp, xml

Basic Diagnostics for Hibernate and Sleep

Posted on December 31, 2010 by cyberx86
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(This article is written with particular reference to Windows operating systems, especially Windows 7, although, some points are applicable to other operating systems as well). The current state of a computer is almost entirely dependent on the state of the … Continue reading →

Posted in: Software Tagged: diagnostics, hibernate, powercfg, sleep

Partitioning Basics

Posted on December 30, 2010 by cyberx86
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One of the necessities of a multi-boot setup is partitioning, but the uses of partitioning go far beyond its application to multi-boot setups. The act of splitting a drive into multiple logical parts is known as partitioning; each part is … Continue reading →

Posted in: Hardware, Multiboot, Software Tagged: partitioning

VirtualBox fails to start

Posted on December 27, 2010 by cyberx86
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Some of my recent exploration of virtual machines in VirtualBox led me to using a beta version of version 4. After an unsuccessful removal of a virtual machine, VirtualBox continually crashed (error relates to qtcorevbox4.dll) as soon as the interface … Continue reading →

Posted in: Software Tagged: virtualbox

Apache: Not GET Request

Posted on December 3, 2010 by cyberx86
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My error logs were recently filled with repetions of the the following line: [Date] [warn] [client IP] Not GET request: 2., referer: As it turned out this was caused by the mod_pagespeed module (from Google). Disabling it has stopped the … Continue reading →

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Decoding a Base64 Email Attachment

Posted on November 20, 2010 by cyberx86
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I had a few files containing email attachments that needed to be converted into usable files. The following code (which has no checks in it), did the trick: <?php function decode_email_attachment(){ $data= file_get_contents($inputfile); file_put_contents($outputfile, base64_decode(str_replace( “\r\n”, “”, $data ))); } … Continue reading →

Posted in: Code Snippets Tagged: base64, email

Fractions

Posted on November 11, 2010 by cyberx86
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For many people the mere mention of fractions elicits a wince, and while these lovely math constructs played a notable role in our early years of math, they are reasonably simple entities. While most humans revisit fractions over many years … Continue reading →

Posted in: Code Snippets, Random Tagged: fractions, math, php

WinAmp UAC

Posted on October 31, 2010 by cyberx86
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I am quite fond of WinAmp, but ever since I started using Windows 7, WinAmp would bring up a User Account Control dialog each time it was started. The cause of this was the ‘Restore file associations at WinAmp start-up’ … Continue reading →

Posted in: Software Tagged: uac, winamp

Website Optimizations, Part 1

Posted on October 30, 2010 by cyberx86
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I have recently been working on a few optimizations for this site. While there are many more to go, I thought I would note a few while they were still fresh. While I prefer Chrome as my daily browser, because … Continue reading →

Posted in: Software, Systems Admin Tagged: cache, cdn, cookies, gzip, s3, wordpress

Invalid MS DOS Function

Posted on October 28, 2010 by cyberx86
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I came across an interesting oddity today. When I went to play a video file, after copying it between two partitions on the same hard drive, the first part played fine, but it reached a particular point where it almost … Continue reading →

Posted in: Software Tagged: chkdsk

Bundle Error on AWS

Posted on October 24, 2010 by cyberx86
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On servers running certain forms of chroot, a file system loop is created (in /var/named/chroot), causing errors when attempting to bundle the volume. This occurs in particular when running BIND (named). To successfully bundle the volume, simply stop named: sudo … Continue reading →

Posted in: Code Snippets Tagged: aws, named

Setting the timezone on PHP

Posted on October 23, 2010 by cyberx86
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Versions of PHP after 5.10 include the date.timezone directive in php.ini. Many applications which reference time need this directive to be set. A list of accepted values can be found at: http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php The timezone is set as a quoted string, … Continue reading →

Posted in: Code Snippets Tagged: php, time

A Procedural Methodology for Diagnosing (Home) Internet Issues

Posted on October 17, 2010 by cyberx86
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I recently had some internet problems, most pages wouldn’t load, my connections to servers (e.g. FTP, SSH) would quickly drop, but, yet, I was able to download a file at a reasonable rate. There are different approaches to narrowing down … Continue reading →

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Posted in: Hardware, Software Tagged: diagnostics, dsl, internet

Time on AWS Linux AMI

Posted on October 6, 2010 by cyberx86
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The time on the Amazon Linux AMI is set, by default to UTC. To change this, symlink one of the timezone files from /usr/share/zoneinfo/ to /etc/localtime. The change takes effect immediately (and will also affect most logs, etc). For example: … Continue reading →

Posted in: Code Snippets Tagged: aws, linux, time

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