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How to be a great conversationalist

Friday, February 9th, 2007

I’m often told in social and business situations what a great conversationalist I am.
As most of you know, I don’t write much. I’m a man of few words. I have a tendency to write and say only as much as is needed.
Still I am often left with remarks that exclaim how great I am to […]

durned spammers

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

I’ve spent a lot of time of late fighting off spammers that are exploiting contact forms.
The simplest method I’ve found is to find the exploited form and add a line that makes it so that it can only send to one recipient.

if (preg_match(’ /[\r\n,;’”]/ ‘, $_POST[’email’])) {
exit(’Invalid email address’);
}
else {
[…]

Flush it!

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

I’m putting this information here so I know where it is.
It’s an easy thing to do. But, it’s just as easy to forget that it needs to be done.
I get annoyed when I try and try and try to reach a site that I know I should be able to reach, until I go, “DOH! […]

netware

Monday, August 1st, 2005

Since I had a time sorting this out, I thought I better write about it.
I had a computer running XP and couldn’t get it so I could use Fast User Switching. Which I didn’t really want to use. I just wanted to always boot up as Admin.
I kept getting the message, “Client Services for Netware […]

google unleashed

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

I don’t usually list works of Debasis Mohanty, but this was too interesting to not share. Yes, it’s three months old. But I had to get comfortable with it. :angel:
Here are some details on how you can use Google to gather confidential or sensitive information
which are not visible through common searches.
Google is the world’s […]

Install Image::Magick

Saturday, April 2nd, 2005

Create an SSH session with your cpanel server.
Copy/Paste each line below, one at a time. Pushing the Enter key after each.
mkdir /home/src
cd /home/src
wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/imagemagick/ImageMagick-6.2.1-1.tar.gz (or good URL from http://imagemagick.sourceforge.net)
tar xvzf ImageMagick-6.2.1-1.tar.gz (or file name) (you can enter the command ‘ dir ‘ to read what the file name is)
cd ImageMagick-6.2.1 (or file name)
./configure
make
make […]

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