howto – Jeremy Heslop

Adding PECL Uploadprogress to 1&1 shared hosting for Drupal 7 (updated)

August 21, 2015 by jeremy

Drupal 7.x is the platform we use to build great websites. There are modules that allow the ability to update a progress meter when uploading a file. This requires installing a PECL extension to PHP called uploadprogress. Here is the process I used to get it working on a 1and1.com hosting package. You will need … Read more

Setting up a BJU Harddrive with a Mac using Parallels

January 28, 2013 by jeremy

We have been homeschooling our oldest for two years now. My wife and I decided on using BJU as the homeschool curriculum which has been great. They have three options for accessing the teaching content: DVD, Harddrive and online. Each progressively getting less expensive. The first year we used the DVDs which were easy to … Read more

Drush on 1and1 Shared Hosting php cgi

October 30, 2012 by jeremy

I’ve had to search for setting this up so many times I figure I should write my own howto on setting up drush on 1and1 hosting packages. Because 1and1 only has php-cgi and not php-cli we will have to force the drush.php file to behave differently. NOTE: This only works on 1and1 packages with ssh. … Read more

Syncing Keyboard Shortcuts from one iOS to another using ssh (needs jailbreak)

January 30, 2012 by jeremy

!!DISCLAIMER!! This process could potentially brick your phone if done improperly. Follow these steps at your own risk. I have created many keyboard shortcuts on my iPhone 4S after learning about the new feature for iOS 5. They make filling out forms and logging into sites so much easier when you can type eml instead … Read more

Adding pdftk to 1and1 shared hosting

September 3, 2010November 11, 2009 by jeremy

UPDATE 2010-09-03: I updated a couple links to reflect newer downloads. Because 1and1 shared hosting is on an older debian (etch) system I had to tweak the steps for using lenny based packages. ENJOY! There are some cases where you might need a powerful pdf toolkit to use with php. 1and1 does not come with … Read more

Adding PECL Uploadprogress to 1&1 shared hosting for Drupal FileField

August 18, 2011May 27, 2009 by jeremy

Drupal 6.x is the platform we use to build great websites. There are modules FileField and ImageField 3.0 that allow the ability to update a progress meter when uploading a file. This requires installing a PECL extension to PHP called uploadprogress. Here is the process I used to get it working on a 1and1.com hosting … Read more

Online Banking Setup for GnuCash 2.2.6 under Windows XP

September 19, 2008 by jeremy

Since my linux raid decided to futz up (read I screwed it up) I’ve been using my Windows partition out of necessity until I have the time to rebuild my software raid 5 and gentoo. Until then we’ve been using GnuCash under Windows which has worked ok, but it is not as nice as the linux version by far. We use GnuCash for our business and it is critical that we have all the functions working in it. One of the things that I really missed was online banking. I could pull in all the transactions and clear them under GnuCash as well as making reconciling alot easier. The reason that GnuCash could not connect to my online bank was that the version of libofx it was saying it was an older version of Quicken and thus was denied from my bank. I read some more online and …

Setting up Azureus and SafePeer in Linux

October 19, 2007 by jeremy

So there are tons of utilities to keep the SafePeer plugin up-to-date in Windows (like BlueTack’s Blocklist Manager), but Linux and the Mac have been left out in the cold. We’ll I found a way to get those 190k+ ips blocked in azureus without having to use Peerguardian or MoBlock (MoBlock is still safer in my mind) in Linux. First we need to download the lists like we would for MoBlock. Here is the script I use: