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Apache Quick Setup on RedHat

We recently had to install Apache on a RedHat server which is very quick via RPM, however setting it up so it acts in a fashion familiar to those who use shared hosting comes with a few gotchas. Here...

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Guide to cleaning a PCB: How Coke nearly killed a Mac Mini

During Dan’s second week his Mac Mini died. He was certain that if I didn’t have reason to fire him before, that I did now. Lucky for him I was on vacation and knew nothing about what happened or even...

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Take a Screenshot on your PC with Windows XP

I couldn’t find an explanation fast enough with Google, so: How to take a screenshot on your PC with Windows XP: 1. Press the Print Screen key on your keyboard. Sometimes its abbreviated as PrtScn. 2....

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Full Window Flash (With Minimum Dimensions), Done Right

2011-03-08 – Updated and now at: http://dev.firefallpro.com/full-window-flash/ Original Article: So you want to have Flash take up 100% of the browser window, but it also has to maintain minimum...

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The iPhone and HTTP Auth – How to save your password

So you have an iPhone, but by now you’ve realized it doesn’t have a Keychain or any other sort of password management for web sites. While I can’t help with form based logins, there is hope when it...

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Movable Type Periodic Tasks (cron job) and cPanel

If you’re having issues getting cPanel to run the Movable Type periodic tasks tool through cron, try adding quotes: Most documentation uses this example:cd /home/username/public_html/mt/;...

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Basecamp Writeboard & Message Erratic Formatting

If you rely heavily on Basecamp, a project management service by 37signals, then you’ve probably run into issues with erratic formatting in Writeboards and Messages. The contextual documentation is...

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Opening a Link in a New Window, and How Not To

I often tell everyone here to avoid examples of JavaScript on the Internet, because more often then not it’s incorrect. The same goes for most of the popular examples of how to cause a link, an A tag...

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Migrating Your Blog from Blogger to WordPress

How to convert your blog from Blogger to WordPress: 1. Make sure that your blog is in the “new” Blogger format and is not hosted on your own FTP server. To do this, first make sure that Blogger is...

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