About 2 years ago I was faced with fighting off a botnot for an online retailer I did work for. While I wont mention the name of the company it is an interesting story nonetheless. It started after the end of the business day. And went unnoticed until the next business day. Since that day… Read More »
Benefits Of Running And Top 20 Tips To Run Better Running is one of the most popular exercises for many reasons. For starters, running is one of those things you can do anytime or anywhere, and you don’t need any equipment besides a nice pair of running shoes. Especially if you are into Muay Thai or boxing,… Read More »
Ello is this talk of the internet right now. A new social network, that doesn’t ask for, nor collects personal information. Every few months a new “Facebook-killer” pops up… but the ones that seem to get attention are the ones that specifically target all of the media published controversy surrounding facebook. Why Ello is Flawed?… Read More »
Shoutcast logs can be pretty big, if you don’t read them in line by line there is a fair chance of getting an out of memory error. The following function getShoutcastBW(logfile) simply returns the number of bytes streamed today out of the log. Good for calculating bandwidth. function my_strip($start,$end,$total){ $total = stristr($total,$start); $f2 = stristr($total,$end);… Read More »
As some of you regulars have noticed, I’ve cut back on some of the posts on the odd and interesting things that people are trying to sell on the internet. But fear not, I’ve been compiling these and making a comprehensive list of these oddities. With that, I’m happy to introduce Shafe’s Picks. A site… Read More »
I have a client who routinely deploys cloud servers and they like ISPConfig installed to serve as a hosting control panel. ISPConfig is great for your average customer to manage their server or even for a small hosting company to manage their servers. It is a cost effective alternative to commercial solutions like Plesk and… Read More »
Quite some time ago I posted a set of scripts to compile Darwin Streaming Server under Debian and Ubuntu. Since that time some of the download links to the patches have disappeared, since that post gets quite a bit of traffic, and I was tasked with doing another install of DSS, I decided to update… Read More »
There are a few different apps in the app store that turns your iPhone into a storage device. I find this one pretty convenient. Sick of carrying around a memory stick to transport your files? This could be a simple solution. If you’d like to take advantage of all of the space on your iPod… Read More »
This evening Facebook rolled out the latest in their upgrades. Ever since Google Plus launched a few months ago Facebook has been rushing updates out the door, almost twice a week. While we all know that people hate change and will complain about any change to anything they are used to, but CONSTANT change may… Read More »
I was recently tasked with a small project that had to pull commit logs from various subversion servers and repositories and display them on a web page. The process was a lot simplier than I first anticipated. Hopefully someone else will find this useful. This php code snippet requires that the server have SHELL_EXEC()… Read More »