Here is the shell command for removing all the spam-boxesfind /home/username/mail/ -name *spam* -exec rm ‘{}’ \; -print Note the orange text indicating where you would put your admin user name. This clears all the spam-boxes (spam files that Spam Box generates to hold all the spam as determined by SpamAssassin… if you have used… Continue reading CPanel clean-up/remove spam-box with cron-job script
Flash Decompilers, turn a swf to fla for Mac OS X
Flash Gordon – The best by far. Flare – Free, just extracts the actionscript from the swf. SWF to FLA Converter – Not that great at extracting Actionscript, but good for extracting elements.
MS Vista “showcase site” has work-around for the IE ‘click to use flash’
Microsoft decided to release a critical update several months back that modified Internet Explorer so users cannot directly interact with Microsoft ActiveX controls loaded by the APPLET, EMBED, or OBJECT elements. Users can interact with such controls after activating their user interfaces. Basically, IE blocked flash from running right-away. A dot-border box with the phrase… Continue reading MS Vista “showcase site” has work-around for the IE ‘click to use flash’
Kismet for Mac OS X (KisMAC)
Kismet is a tool for wireless sniffing (just viewing what’s already passing through the air). And KisMAC is the OSX version. Best part about KisMAC is the Apple Airport Extreme card drivers for both Active and Passive support. Active, meaning you can see but can’t collect, and passive meaning you can see and collect. So… Continue reading Kismet for Mac OS X (KisMAC)
Top-level domain root servers
Root Server Domain’s Root Servers IP’s Location A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 198.41.0.4 – VeriSign, VA, USA B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 192.228.79.201 – Information Sciences Institue, CA, USA C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 192.33.4.12 – Performance Systems International Inc., DC, USA D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 128.8.10.90 – Optional Design Group, CA, USA E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 192.203.230.10 – NASA, AL, USA F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 192.5.5.241 – Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., CA, USA G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET 192.112.36.4… Continue reading Top-level domain root servers
URL basics
The URL (universe resource locator) makes a request: http://user:password@www.thedomain.org:8080/folder/file.html?var=value#anchor http – protocol (http, https, ftp, usenet, etc…) user – user name for server (useful for viewing files via FTP in a browser window) password – password for server www – subdomain thedomain – domain org – top-level domain 8080 – port (default for http is… Continue reading URL basics
Offload scripting to SQL
Databases are still an intrical part of any project, be it web or desktop. But more commonly developers are using the main language of choice for sorting out simple database queries. Most databases today are SQL-based and they support SQL the language in some format. It is common practice today to use simple SQL-queries to… Continue reading Offload scripting to SQL
Web-API’s, free-services that help promote your business
Offering web-API’s is a standard, and offering a wide-variety is becoming the new standard. API (Application Programming Interfaces) offer a free service too any user (usually subscription-based) via web. Examples of web-API’s: Google Maps UPS shipping FedEx shipping Flickr Yahoo! Traffic – text service What are the advantages of these API’s? Your service can now… Continue reading Web-API’s, free-services that help promote your business
Is your site indexed on search-engines?
Google sometimes has problems indexing a site correctly. Or they may not be indexing your site at all. How do you know if your site is indexed? MarketLeap has a wicked tool to help show how many pages have been indexed by what search engines: MarketLeap.com index tool. If HotBot has 100 and Google has… Continue reading Is your site indexed on search-engines?
OSX – CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System), Web-interface
If you are on OSX… click here Welcome to CUPS web interface. Where you can monitor your print jobs, view your printers, administer print jobs, view past print jobs and so much more.