Monthly Archives: September 2007

A Friendly Reminder to Upgrade your Wordpress Comments Off

Just a friendly reminder from your system administrator to upgrade your Wordpress installation to 2.3!

Lyris Listmanager – Hacking the Web Frontend For Increased Functionality 1

Lyris Listmanager is a nice mailing list management system. However, there are a few features that are missing out of the frontend that make it hard to get by your day-to-day office job. Fortunately, most of it is written with TCL routines which are not encoded, which makes for easy updates to this code.
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ffmpeg PHP Extension Howto for CentOS 1

If you need to compile ffmpeg for PHP (for example, to allow PHP to process video similar to how YouTube does) – then follow this Howto from Nazly. For a CentOS machine with custom PHP, it works great.
Ffmpeg PHP Extension Compile Instructions

.htaccess stupid tips and tricks Comments Off

Found an encyclopedic list of “stupid” .htaccess tricks. Includes many useful ones such as being able to stop hotlinking of images and replacing with your own, increasing speed and security and general good-to-know htaccess information.
Stupid htaccess tricks

Remote Unattended OS installs – Linux and Windows! 2

The technology has been around for a while to do unattended OS installs, using kickstart on redhat for example. These installs are typically done remotely. Kickstart is basically done off of an image file, which can be inserted via a floppy, CD, or now a USB Keychain drive.

Another technology that has been around a [...]