The Droid Sans font from Google Font Directory is a lovely font with great readability for use on web pages.To use Droid Sans add a css link:<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>then in... » More
If you plan to use URLBlacklist.com or Shalla rules in Dansguardian you may suffer from very slow (or impossible) restarts of the daemon. Dansguardian prefers the rules randomized rather than in alphabetical order. I couldn't find the randomize lines... » More
I needed to tail two log files in one terminal so on the server I was using:yum install screen screenCtrl-A c Ctrl-A Shift-s Ctrl-A TAB Ctrl-A " Run "tail -f filename1" in one frame then Ctrl-A TAB to the other... » More
After putting together an RPM for DansGuardian v2.10.1.1 I thought I would make a few notes. The version of DansGuardian in the repositories is currently version 2.8 and the only other repo or rpm I could find was a 32-bit 2.10. Why DansGuardian... » More
I was at the Enterprise Ireland 'The Business Value of Open Source Software' event yesterday. The speakers included: Simon Phipps (Open Source Initiative) Tim Willoughby and Tom Mackey (Limerick City Council) Ronan Kirby (Red Hat) David... » More
Just an example for future reference of text mangling on unix/linux making use of sed, awk, and grep on a CSV/text file containing names, email addresses etc delimited with a semi-colon ; cat emailaddresses.csv | grep "@" | awk -F ";" '{print $1}' |... » More
To get PHP error reporting for a file or web application use one of the following methods:1. Add the following to the PHP code in the file:error_reporting(E_ALL);ini_set('display_errors', '1');2. Add the following to a .htaccess file in the same... » More
Had a problem today with Firefox on Windows 7 and Firefox on Linux. Upon reading our proxy.pac (wpad) file the if statements were not working:if(isInNet(myIpAddress(), "123.111.123.0","255.255.254.0"))According to this post on Mozilla the problem is due... » More
Just read about Justniffer on UbuntuGeek and decided to give it a whirl. Downloaded deb installer from SourceForge and ran with:justniffer -i eth0I received the following output showing a few web connections and a telnet session to a mail... » More
I had an issue today with TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor which uses proper XHTML and CSS for aligning elements. This is all good for CMS style usage but my usage was for sending HTML emails and on some email clients the alignment in CSS is ignored. I really... » More
