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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 →

Accordion Divs: http://sandbox.scriptiny.com/javascript-accordion/index.html http://www.cssnewbie.com/example/css-only-accordion/vertical.html

Ran into a couple issues on a development box and wanted to save some notes for next time! If the FTP upgrade / install leads to a blank white page with no error, check your PHP configuration and make sure … Continue reading →