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If 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 […]

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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 […]

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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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If 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 […]

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Managing 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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Tonight, I was playing around with trying to figure out how to display some HTML entities inside a wordpress post.
I wanted to be able to display a simple fraction in a wordpress post.
After a bit of RTFMing on the Wordpress Codex, I found that the tags will allow you to render HTML entities specificly.
The […]

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Definate a great series of articles to read if you are at all interested in creating solid database driven web applications.
ONLamp.com — MySQL Crash Course
MySQL Crash Course
by John Coggeshall
12/23/2003
Welcome to another issue of PHP Foundations. Last time, I wrapped up a discussion of an ongoing topic of security and good practices I’ve dubbed “PHP Paranoia.” […]

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I found a page on the php.net site today talking about how to get php to make secure ssh connections.
Check it out.

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