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Mac OS X voices for using with the ‘say’ command
A neat trick if you have a Mac OS X machine is to do this (make sure your speakers are turned on): Open Terminal.app Type in at the command line: say hello world This will make your computer say “hello world” in the default voice (Victoria). Here is a list of the other voices you…
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How to check if your DNS server is vulnerable to the recently discovered DNS exploit
In case you’ve missed the recent news about the major DNS exploit problem and haven’t checked to see if your DNS server is vulnerable, this site has a checker that will test to see if your DNS server appears to be patched or not. Recently, a significant threat to DNS, the system that translates names…
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Why you should upgrade your WordPress installation to version 2.6 (just released) today
First, the good news: Matt & his brave crew of WordPress coders have just released version 2.6 of the Open Source award-winningly awesome content management system called WordPress (download it here). I’ve been using it since it was called b2, and love it. I recommend it for most of my clients, and they love the…
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How to connect to a VNC machine that is behind a firewall using SSH tunneling, OS X and Chicken of the VNC
VNC is a very useful program for accessing a computer remotely. These are instructions for accessing a remote machine using OS X, Chicken of the VNC, and Vine Server when there is a firewall in the way. Normally it is a fairly straightforward process to connect from a VNC client to a VNC server running…
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New site design is live (also upgraded to the latest version of WordPress – 2.5)
In preparation for upgrading a whole mess of sites to using the latest version of WordPress I decided it was time to finally upgrade my own site and to implement the new design I’d been working on for a while (for over a year now). Check it out: www.gabrielserafini.com Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2008/04/01/new-site-design-is-live-also-upgraded-to-the-latest-version-of-wordpress-25/
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How to fix PEAR installation of XML_RSS / XML_Tree invalid package.xml file problem
As part of getting an upgraded server set up and transferring sites from the older server, I had to re-install PEAR XML_RSS. One of its dependencies is XML_Tree. Normally, this command should have worked with no problems: pear install XML_RSS It downloaded XML_RSS just fine, but then choked on XML_Tree, which was a required dependency.…
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Google Chart API is very cool
Google’s new Charts API is very cool. I am interested to see how we might possibly use that with Collabofit to do additional charting. Here’s the code used to generate that graph above: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart? cht=lc &chs=500×300 &chd=s:GabrielSerafini2007 &chtt=’Gabriel%20Serafini%202007’%20Using%20the%20New%20Google%20Charts%20API &chxt=x,y &chxl=0:|1976|1986|1996|2007|1:||Cool||Amazing||Awesome Very simple, clean, elegant and neat. Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2007/12/06/google-chart-api-is-very-cool/
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How to sync audio and video for DVD playback using your remote speakers, AirPort Express, Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil and VLC
I’ve been enjoying using my Apple AirPort Express to stream music from my laptop to our living room speakers using iTunes. The other evening I wanted to watch a DVD and use the good speakers to get the best sound, but you can’t do that without using a helper program. I found a program that…
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The funniest IT Crowd episode yet
The IT Crowd is so awesomely funny. Tonight’s episode is so funny we’re watching it again. Completely hilarious. LOLed for about half the show. You must watch this now. Run don’t walk. Get Miro (used to be called Democracy) – this is an Internet TV player http://getmiro.com Copy this URL: http://tvrss.net/search/index.php?show_name=The+IT+Crowd&show_name_exact=true&mode=rss Open Miro, then click…
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Some excellent WordPress plugins I found recently – Breadcrumbs and better Links page management
I’m working on a new site relating to Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act compliance (it will replace the useless site that is currently up at grammleachblileyact.com) and was looking for breadcrumb functionality and a better way to manage outputting links from the Blogroll on the links.php page. I had searched for a good WordPress breadcrumbs plugin a while…