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Thursday, December 29, 2005

Cracking the xbox (not the 360)

http://www.how2xbox.com/programs.htm

a decent link to some good resources...

gMail is GREAT

... ok so you have 2gigs of storage and you can access it from any browser etc... But now you also can preview a conversation by just right-clicking it.

First off if you don't have firefox then you should seriously consider praying and then go to mozilla.com and download it.

If you don't have a gmail account then go get one. Then go get greasemonkey. Now if you don't know, greasemonkey can do just about anything (provided you script the actions out). Its a great way to provide extra functionality to already one of the greatest browsers out there.

Ok so you have a new gmail account, and you have greasemonkey extension installed on firefox. Now you need the scripts installed. Head over to persistent.info and read through what he has to offer. I found the preview bubbles a great help in thumbing through email without having to get out of the inbox view. Another great one to get are the gmail macros. This will provide the functionality of not having to highlight/select all the messages you want to delete and go through the drop down menu to delete messages.

http://persistent.info/ - This guy is really all about greasemonkey scripts.

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Adobe Reader too Slow

Ok so adobe reader and pdf's are a great thing right. Well make it even better and don't wait for all of those plugin's to load. Foxit is a really good pdf viewer that doesnt even have to install. Just start opening pdf's with it and you're all setup...

Apache for cygwin

To test out wordpress 2.0 on a project at work I am attempting to make apache for cygwin a native windows service. I found that cygrun -I

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/cygwin.html#serv


  • Installing Apache as a new Service

    Use the following statement to install
    httpd.exe as a new service:


      $ cygrunsrv -I service_name-p /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd.exe 
    [-a arguments] [-e VAR=VALUE] [-t auto|manual]
    [-u user] [-w passwd]



    Where -a is used to pass command line
    arguments (such as -DFOO defines) to
    httpd.exe, and -e is used to pass
    environment variables. If necessary you may use the
    -t options to set the autostart configuration
    for the service. If you want the new service to run under a
    different userid, you will have to supply the
    -u and -w options.






  • Starting Apache as a Service

    After the new service is installed it can be started
    using the following command:


      $ cygrunsrv -S service_name


    Check your process table and global
    error_log file to ensure Apache has started
    without any major problems.






  • Stopping an Apache Service

    A running Apache service may be stopped using the
    following command:


      $ cygrunsrv -E service_name


    This will stop all running httpd.exe

    processes and shutdown the HTTP service for the
    machine.





  • Removing an Apache Service

    An installed Apache service may be removed from Windows
    NT or Windows 2000 using the following command:


      $ cygrunsrv -R service_name



    This will remove your previously defined and installed
    service from the machine.

  • K2 for WordPress 2.0

    K2 - makes Wordpress easier (now for WP 2.0)

    http://binarybonsai.com/k2/

    Monitor Bandwidth with iptables

    Who knew that linux's firewall implementation has such functionality.

    http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/12/15/177232

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