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I needed to set up Emails to go to the SMS account of a customer on Credo Mobile. Most carriers publish this information, but I could not find it anywhere for Credo. So I called them up. Sorry, they can’t … Continue reading →

We use a perl script to monitor our webservers, and if any are down, send an email (SMS) to the right people. With thanks and compliments to these guys Here is the perl script, monitor-website.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use Getopt::Std; # Define … Continue reading →

I did a yum update on a Centos 5.5 system and to my surprise, whois no longer worked: # whois whatever.com *** glibc detected *** whois: double free or corruption (out): 0x0013ffc0 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6[0x1795a5] /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x59)[0x1799e9] whois[0x8049b18] whois[0x8049bff] … Continue reading →

Thinking about building a membership site using wordpress… here’s a site to check out http://wordpressmembershipplugins.net/

The more I use rdist the more I like it. I use it to back up the same directory from one server to another (ie /home/htdocs from server1 gets copied over /home/htdocs on server2) But sometimes it’s nice to be … Continue reading →

Having invested in this secure certificate (not a lot of money, but some, and also some time to get everything configured right), I figure we ought to make sure people are using them. Especially on our Webmail login page where … Continue reading →

Brute force SSH attempts have dropped to zero since changing the port from the default to a non-standard one. Even though Denyhosts was working just fine for SSH, now it’s not even needed. However, the brute force pop3 attempts were … Continue reading →

Needed to update my validation scripts and found this excellent article on the subject. The key part I needed was this: var reEmail = /^([A-Za-z0-9_\-\.])+\@([A-Za-z0-9_\-\.])+\.([A-Za-z]{2,4})$/; which basically says, the first & second parts must have only letters, numbers, underscores, hyphens, … Continue reading →

Found this “ShiftCreate” stuff today while checking out IDEs. The mailing thing looks quite interesting… although “ShiftMail” sounds like “ShiftYMail” but hopefully it doesn’t live up to that name! Maybe I will try it out…

We’ve all seen them from time to time, those funny guys that show up when utf8 goes all utf-8 or vice versa. “I’, Â, etc… Anyway thanks to this very concise tip, the problem is easily solved… for now This … Continue reading →