There are some cases where you might need a powerful pdf toolkit to use with php. 1and1 does not come with any built in pdf processors or pdf libraries built into php. Here is the process I used to integrate phptk into my 1and1 shared hosting account.
Requirements: 1and1 shared plan that has ssh support
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Adding pdftk to 1and1 shared hosting
Published by November 11th, 2009 in howto, php, programming, software, technology and website. 3 CommentsAdding PECL Uploadprogress to 1&1 shared hosting for Drupal FileField
Published by May 27th, 2009 in drupal, howto, programming, software, technology and website. 17 CommentsDrupal 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 [...]
Suggest topics for me to write about: Skribit
Published by October 10th, 2008 in blogs, social, software, suggestions and technology. 1 CommentI would love for those who read this blog (all 3 of you lol) to suggest topics for me to blog about. I was alerted to a very kewl service called Skribit that allows people to suggest items. Please post your suggestions there or use the skribit box on the right. Thanks alot!
Online Banking Setup for GnuCash 2.2.6 under Windows XP
Published by September 19th, 2008 in business, howto, money and software. 11 CommentsSince 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 [...]
TextMate is the best editor evaaaaar!
Published by April 9th, 2008 in software and technology. 0 CommentsYeah, so I love TextMate. It is in my opinion one of the greatest text editors. It is easy to use, has great features (see below), makes it easy to program (especially in php) and is all around great. Yeah I know I could expound more, but I’m doing other things so read the features [...]
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Setting up Azureus and SafePeer in Linux
Published by October 19th, 2007 in azureus, howto, linux and software. 0 CommentsSo 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 [...]
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SuSE SLES 10 Migrating from NIS using MigrationTools
Published by August 9th, 2007 in linux, security, software and technology. 0 CommentsSo we were moving a NIS database to LDAP under SUSE SLES 10 using the MigrationTools-47 scripts. It generated the ldif file, but would not import because it was failing on adding groups. This was the error we were getting:
(65) no structural object class provided
All we had to do is change this:
objectClass: posixGroup
objectClass: top
to this:
objectClass: [...]
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Mozy is your backup buddy!
Published by May 21st, 2007 in apple, backup, software, technology and windows. 0 CommentsI have been using mozy for backing up the data on my mac (works in windows too) for awhile now and it is great so I figured I would let everyone know. Go to mozy.com to check it out!
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DTV released as Democracy (Linux Preview)
Published by February 22nd, 2006 in diggs, iptv, linux, podcasting, software, technology and video. 0 CommentsThe long awaited, open-source Democracy platform is a project of the Participatory Culture Foundation allowing you to subscribe to video RSS feeds (including podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds), watch fullscreen and share with friends.
So I checked out Democracy and was impressed at the layout and that I was actually able to download content right [...]
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mtink: Status Monitor for EPSON inkjet printers
Published by January 24th, 2006 in hardware, linux and software. 0 CommentsI found a great little print monitor for linux called mtink. It works great for my Epson Stylus Photo 825 printer when hooked up via usb and I can reset, clean, and nozzle check the printer all from this little program. If using my particular printer you will need to select the Stylus Photo printer [...]
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