Just a friendly reminder from your system administrator to upgrade your WordPress installation to 2.3!
Categories: Site Updates,Software
Tagged: upgrade, Wordpress installation, wordpress
Monthly Archives: September 2007
A Friendly Reminder to Upgrade your WordPress Comments Off
Lyris Listmanager – Hacking the Web Frontend For Increased Functionality 2
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. Of course this is not supported by Lyris and if you have problems with it after making your changes, don’t expect them to support it. Make backup of your files – in Linux this is /usr/local/lm For this example, I’m going to add the Full Name field to survey results. By default, it shows the email address but not the name of the responding user. Step 1: Backup! 1cp -R /usr/local/lm /usr/local/lm.bak Step 2: Open the file which holds the routine for the “Survey Details” page. This is in /htdocs/reports/surveys/.tml 1vi /usr/local/lm/htdocs/reports/surveys/.tml Step 3: Modify the….
Categories: Code Samples,Email,Perl,Software,TCL
Tagged: Linux, Web Frontend For Increased Functionality Lyris
.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
Categories: Code Samples,Configurations,PHP,Security,System Administration,Webdesign
Remote Unattended OS installs – Linux and Windows! 4
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 while is pxeboot. Using pxeboot, you can boot images directly from a supported network card. Most network cards have a built in bootp interface. The network card first looks for a bootp (aka dhcp) server to assign an IP address and load an image. It then uses the trivial ftp protocol to look for a boot image, called pxelinux. Then pxelinux loads the correct installer image. So the process looks like this: 1Power on->Boot from Network->Bootp->Tftp->pxelinux->Boot Image Loads After loading the boot image, the system is on its own as far as doing the install…..
Categories: Linux,System Administration,Windows
Tagged: actual hardware, admin-tools, America, bootp server, dgram protocol, dhcp server, Ethernet, firewall, legacy-software-development, Linux, MAC Address, option routers, Peter Anvin, private network, root server, system-tools, text-internet mdadm kernel grub e2fsprogs, tftp server, The bootp protocol, trivial ftp protocol, udp, Windows Unattended Installation
Remove Duplicate Email Messages in Thunderbird 2.x 2
I used to use a Thunderbird addon to remove duplicate messages in Thunderbird. This is handy if your mail client becomes “de synced” from your mail server, whether it be an IMAP or POP3 connection. Also this can occur if you restore a backup or import mails and it creates duplicates. However, after Thunderbird 2.0 was released, this old plugin was not compatible. Eyalroz re-released the plugin under GPL and with updates for Thunderbird 2.0. If you have a need to remove duplicate emails – this is the plugin you need! Get it: Remove Duplicate Messages (alternate)
Categories: Email,Programs,System Administration
Tagged: mail server
Windows Mobile 6 – Always Shows 1 Unread Message 6
This happened on a few of my accounts – specifically the IMAP accounts on my Windows Mobile 6 device. Apparently this was a problem back with Windows Mobile 2003 but it seems to have resurfaced in Windows Mobile 6. Even though all messages in an account are read; the “1 unread message” message still shows up on your Today screen. This happens when the internal unread message count becomes de-synced with the real message count. Instead of polling the server for unread messages, Windows Mobile keeps an internal database/registry key with this number. This problem also manifests itself in having “-1″ unread messages or another off-count. Luckily, it is pretty easy to fix. Download this program from freewareppc. Transfer and run the .exe from your device. It analyzes your accounts and fixes the internal database “unread” count.
Categories: Cell Phones,Windows Mobile
Tagged: 2003
