technology

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

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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

All the good ideas are taken. Lost item locator.

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Had a thought last night as I was searching for my daughters pacifier for more than 15min as she was upstairs crying her little eyes out. “Pink passy” she crys from atop the stairs as I rummage around the kitchen, living room and across every corner, nook and cranny. My thought was, “If there was … Read more

Suggest topics for me to write about: Skribit

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I 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!

Paypal’s Security FOB

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Yes this has been reviewed multiple times (here) as well as talked about on one of my favorite podcasts Security Now (transcript), but I just had to let the people who look at my blog (all 8 of you lol) how great it is. Here is a picture of it: This hangs on my keychain … Read more

TextMate is the best editor evaaaaar!

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Yeah, 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 … Read more

Join twitter!!

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Not on facebook and want a way to keep track of some musings and things I do throughout the day? Then check out twitter. My blog lists a daily snapshot of all my tweets, but why not get things immediately!?! 🙂 You can also get tweets sent to IM or your phone. Schweet!

Apple Makes me Mad!

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Ok well jealous with envy is more like it! They are releasing all kinds of new goodies today including the latest iPod Touch which is like an iPhone without the phone. You can even purchase songs straight off of iTunes. Crazy! I was checking things out here for updates: http://live.gizmodo.com/

SuSE SLES 10 Migrating from NIS using MigrationTools

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So 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: posixGroup
objectClass: namedObject
objectClass: top

for each group in the ldif file. Then we redid slapadd -l file.ldif and everything worked.

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Wish I had an iPhone

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After looking over the unpacking of, the disassembly of, the workings of, the howto videos of and more I think I have finally gotten iPhone envy. But just like I waited for the Macbook Pro Core 2 models to come out I think I will wait for the iPhones w/ GPS, 3G, 16-30GB, and more. … Read more

Mozy is your backup buddy!

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I 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!