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I was working on getting SugarCRM 4.5.1.b up and running on my local development environment the other day (Powerbook 17″ G4), when I found that in order to take advantage of the inbound email capabilities of Sugar, you need to have PHP compiled with the IMAP C libraries.
I found a nice little group of steps […]
Diskwarrior = My New Best Friend
1 Comment Published by Ben Wann October 2nd, 2007 in Craziness, Nerd, Technology, rants, How-To, Mac OSXSo the Saga of the Coffee + Laptop continued today.
Upon the Computer gaining its heartbeat back, I quickly realized that there were sections of my Hard Drive that had mysteriously disappeared!
So here are the bits of intelligence that I can share with the world.
Long ago, when I first bought my 15″ Powerbook, the Logic Unit […]
Here is Rufus in the pool with his friends.
Yay we have a water dog!
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Coffee + Apple Powerbook 17″ G4 = 6 Hours Laptop Surgery
2 Comments Published by Ben Wann October 2nd, 2007 in Craziness, St.Louis, Nerd, Mac OSXIf you spend as much time on your computer as I do, you start to take concern for its well being. Most of the time this involves doing regular backups (Not the best at that), running software updates to protect your sweet lappy, and just being generally careful around your expensive equipment. Last […]
Where did I go you are all asking yourselves!
Well here it is.
I changed the DNS on my ISP to accomodate a client. I did this because my default hosting account does not support php5. I needed php5 for the site I was building for the client.
This was all fine and dandy, except then I forgot […]
Spent a bit of yesterday figuring out why I couldn’t set an innerHTML on a HTML Table Element.
Come to find out that IE has the innerHTML element set to read-only for the following elements:
COL, COLGROUP, FRAMESET, HTML, STYLE, TABLE, TBODY, TFOOT, THEAD, TITLE, TR.
You can read the exact specs for the IE innerHTML property here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/innerhtml.asp
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PHP Extensions XML_RPC + mbstring != Compilation Happiness
1 Comment Published by Ben Wann October 31st, 2006 in Craziness, Nerd, Technology, PHP, Mac OSXIf the title of this blog post doesn’t explain it enough here it is.
This evening, well early morning, I was trying to get XML_RPC to install as the native extension. I had previously install PHP 5.1.6 with the mbstring extension enabled to make a pesky phpMyAdmin error about it go away.
Well this time it caught […]
OReilly Network - Managing a Honeypot
0 Comments Published by Ben Wann October 11th, 2006 in CrazinessManaging a Honeypot
This is a great Sys Admin article over at OReilly having to do with administering a Honeypot.
I heard a great story about some security experts who caught some Eastern European blackmailers.
I will probably need to get one of these set up for collabofit.com in the near future, once it goes crazy.
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iPod Nike Plus Hack
AH HA! I have found it.
Now it is just a matter of time before I write the iTunes Plugin to scrape the data up to Collabofit.com
for tracking on our site as well!!!!
Thanks earnshavian
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Ever wanted to know how to scan for an open port on a linux box?
Well.
Here you go.
% nmap -sT -O localhost
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