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How I got networking working on my Powerbook using Single User Mode in OS X
Update: It turns out that the reason my laptop had this problem in the first place was one of my 1GB sticks of RAM that had gone bad after running with zero problems for over a year. The kernel panics happening on a totally clean install of OS X was a clue, and then using…
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How I used the Unix command line to do a multi-file search and replace to fix over 4,700 individual files
Evil hackers attack! Some customers of mine recently reported some suspicious behavior on one of their sites. I discovered, with dismay, that a number of months ago there was a nasty cPanel exploit that some evil hackers had used to insert a malicious line of code into the bottom of every HTML page on this…
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DiddleBug Extractor 2.1 – Palm DiddleBug image extractor script for OS X, Windows, Linux (Replaces Didcon 2.0)
DiddleBug Extractor 2.1 Drawing pictures on your Palm I use an excellent free Open Source program called DiddleBug on my Palm Treo 700p for doing small black and white drawings. The latest version of DiddleBug creates 320×320 pixel size drawings. These are referred to on their site as “high-res” pictures instead of the 160×160 pixel…
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Searchball – Google Pagerank checker for Safari
Howto check Google Pagerank using Safari: Go here Searchball – Google Pagerank checker for Safari and add the bookmarklet to your browser bookmark toolbar. Click the bookmarklet whenever you want to know the Pagerank for the site your are viewing A small window will appear telling you the Pagerank. I just finished making some adjustments…
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The secret to getting your website featured on the frontpage of RSS2.com
If you’ve ever tried to get your website featured on the front page of a site like digg, reddit, or Slashdot you might have felt frustration when you didn’t get the right number of votes to make it. There is a site called RSS2.com that will automatically put your website’s content directly on its homepage.…
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bash script to copy all files in a directory and convert uppercase characters to lowercase
So, I recently found out that the version of PHPList that we were using on a client site (2.10.2) had a nasty bug in it where it would convert all URLs in a text version of an email message to lowercase. This bug is fixed in the latest version (2.10.3) but it left a number…
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Unix command line tip of the day: How to recursively add all newly added files to Subversion in an existing working copy
When using Subversion for version control, if you have a working copy checked out and then you want to add a variety of new files and directories to the existing ones, you might do something like this: [code]cp -R newfiles/* files/[/code] Unfortunately, svn add only will add files or directories in the immediate directory unless…
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Fix for PHP PEAR on OS X 100% CPU problem
I was rebuilding PHP 5.1.4 for my G4 PowerBook to use with Apache 2.2.2 and MySQL 5.* when I ran into this problem using PEAR: When I would run a command like: pear install Log PEAR would download the package, indicate that it was done, and then hang, consuming 100% of the CPU and never…
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How-to: Run the Mac OS 9 (Classic) version of Concord on a new Mac OS X (Intel) Macbook
The one biggest application that my mom wanted to have running on her shiny new Macbook was Concord. A program that the publisher has not updated in many years. And that, for Macintosh, assuming you already have a copy, will not run under the new OS X Intel version, since Apple really wants OS 9…
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How-to: Use your shiny new Treo 700p as a USB Modem for your laptop and get super-fast Sprint EVDO speeds
If, like me, you found your new Treo 700p to be AWESOME, except for the $39.99 or $49.99 ADDITIONAL monthly charge to actually USE the Bluetooth DUN feature (that wasn’t mentioned ANYWHERE in the marketing that I saw) so that you can hook up your laptop to it and surf the internet using your phone…