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Archive for the ‘Solutions’ Category

• Configure sendmail to accept emails only if “from", “to" or specific field matches

  Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

  you can exclude an email address or even a host that is spamming you using the access file located in your etc directory, the bad news is that it does not support regex or even wildcards.

• Remotley start programs on your Linux Desktop

  Monday, March 31st, 2008

  It is very easy to start programs remotely on your windows desktop from another computer but running X11 application on Linux from another ssh session would start a new X11 session on your remote machine, that was a problem for me and here is how I solved that…..

• Sort Unix processes on ps by highest memory usage

  Friday, March 7th, 2008

  just a snippet, –sort is not good for me..try
  ps -eo pmem,pcpu,rss,vsize,args | sort -k 1 -r | more

• Sitemap Creator 0.2a: Create sitemaps 09 valid for Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com and moreover sitemaps

  Monday, December 10th, 2007

  New Sitemap Creator Beta available
  Sitemap Creator 0.2a is different from version 0.1, The script now is able to crawl/spider your website, create your sitemaps, ping Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com, moreover.com with the location of your sitemaps and send you alerts by email when sitemaps are created or crawled by the search bot. The crawler saves [...]

• Adding FAlbum URLs to XML-Sitemap WordPress Plugin

  Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

  As I mentioned on my previous post yesterday about Fixing FAlbum Plugin that I'm trying to add support for Google XML Sitemaps Plugin to FAlbum so that all URLs including albums, photos and tags would be added to Blog’s Sitemap which would be crawled by Google, Yahoo and MSN .

• Fixing Flickr FAlbum rewrite rules, thumbnails, javascripts and more …

  Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

  FAlbum is a WordPress Plug-in that adds your Flickr photo albums to your blog without redirecting the viewer to Flickr or leaving your blog. It is very useful and unique, I have always needed that plugin on my blog, however, some features needed a lot of digging into the code to fix or to [...]

• BPEL4WS Series

  Monday, October 29th, 2007

  Process Modeling
  Abstract
  In this article, we will walk through modeling a sample process using the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services. This article uses Sybase PowerDesigner as the modeling tool and J2EE 1.4 as the programming and deployment platform. The article assumes basic knowledge of BPEL4WS, UML, WSDL and J2EE technologies.

• Dynamic Content Caching using Lighty + mod_magnet + lua

  Monday, September 17th, 2007

  *Updated 11 Jan 2007 to include luazlib, fix lighty config file and add zlib decoding to cache.lua for older browsers
  Since I read the documentations for mod_cml, I was very excited to use this module since caching using PHP running as FastCGI is not helping much during server peak load. However, mod_cml was replaced by mod_magnet [...]

• Using iptables to block ips that spam or attack your server

  Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

  Why should you do that while APF or CSF can do it automatically?
  Because APF/CSF could block an important bot testing your server to add to search index. So reviewing every ip would be a daily task!
  Ok, so how?
  using RHEL4, centos4

• get an array containing random integers between $min and $max integers

  Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

  Trying to pick up random keys from an array but don't want any duplicates?
  try this

• Using Google AJAX API to copy google results in array

  Sunday, January 28th, 2007

  This is some way you can get Google results as a JavaScript array that you can display on any page, you first need to get your Google API Key then try this code…

• Get average server load

  Monday, January 1st, 2007

  This function should work on Unix as on windows

• Allow bots / spiders / crawlers into your private vbulletin forums

  Thursday, December 14th, 2006

  There are some very complicated hacks to add but this one line script to do it.
  This should be applied to VB 3.5.4
  add these lines to the end of your init.php file located in forumroot\includes\init.php

• XUL : open URL with a referrer

  Monday, December 4th, 2006

  This is a small function to use in Firefox extension development which makes use of the referrer parameter sent to loadURI() and addTab() functions

• Start multiple programs with one click on windows

  Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

  It is annoying how most installed programs set them selves in windows startup which you can then manually remove through
  Startmenu -> run -> msconfig -> uncheck uneeded programs or services (services could be set to start manually better than disabling it and has the same effect) [...]

• Get Keyword from referrer

  Sunday, November 26th, 2006

  This Function should extract the keyword from the referrer URL to get what your visitor was searching for on google, msn, live, altavista, alltheweb, scirus, aol, vivisimo, lycos, aliweb, yahoo and baidu.

• Integrate Theme Switcher

  Thursday, October 19th, 2006

  What if you want Theme Switcher into all your WordPress Themes?
  Try this

  Open file “wp-includes\template-functions-general.php" and search for “function wp_meta() {"
  add this code just after "do_action('wp_meta');"

   

  echo "</ul><h2>Themes:</h2><div>";

  wp_theme_switcher('dropdown');

  echo "</div>";

   

  save the file, and you'll get the Theme Switcher on everypage after the meta

• Change WordPress page order

  Thursday, October 19th, 2006

  I am not sure why Page order is not working in WordPress, but this is a simple workaround to fix it

  go to wordpress admin -> write -> write page -> change ALL pages “Page Order" from the right down box.
  open file “wp-includes\template-functions-post.php" in any text editor.
  go to line 334 or search for “function wp_list_pages($args = [...]

• Navigate Entries per page UPDATED

  Saturday, October 14th, 2006

  A Simple way to display entries per page with limits to group numbers so they do not get too big and styles for the navigation bar