Been awhile since I’ve posted anything here. I’ve been busy lately working hard to get my latest web app online. Have a look and let me know what you think. If you want to try it out you’ll get a $15 free credit, good for a few months of service for a single site. Any… Read More »
Ello is this talk of the internet right now. A new social network, that doesn’t ask for, nor collects personal information. Every few months a new “Facebook-killer” pops up… but the ones that seem to get attention are the ones that specifically target all of the media published controversy surrounding facebook. Why Ello is Flawed?… Read More »
Shoutcast logs can be pretty big, if you don’t read them in line by line there is a fair chance of getting an out of memory error. The following function getShoutcastBW(logfile) simply returns the number of bytes streamed today out of the log. Good for calculating bandwidth. function my_strip($start,$end,$total){ $total = stristr($total,$start); $f2 = stristr($total,$end);… Read More »
For me, I find the linux command line like a second home. When I’m on Windows, I find that I live in CMD.EXE a majority of the time — I usually always have a command prompt open. Aside from everything about Windows that drives me insane on a regular basis, I find the… Read More »
I have a client who routinely deploys cloud servers and they like ISPConfig installed to serve as a hosting control panel. ISPConfig is great for your average customer to manage their server or even for a small hosting company to manage their servers. It is a cost effective alternative to commercial solutions like Plesk and… Read More »
Need A new password? Here is a randomly generated one: Here is the PHP code to generate these passwords: function genRandomString($length) { $length = 10; $characters = ‘123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopq3stuvwxyz!^+.?’; $string = “”; for ($p = 0; $p < $length; $p++) { $string .= $characters[mt_rand(0, strlen($characters))]; } return $string; }
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 »
I Don’t usually blog just to reproduce another thing I already saw, hense the slowness in new post. But I keep going back to this one.. It could be because I haven’t slept in two days or maybe I keep going back because it’s perfect… The article was here: http://blogs.sitepoint.com/12-tips-for-better-developer-communication/ I’ll Feel bad for reprinting… Read More »
Thats right, the machine that made home computer history in 1982 is coming back. Commodore had quite a history starting back in 1954, but never really hit it big until the early 80s when they managed to bring affordable personal computers into peoples living rooms. Personally my very first computer was a Commodore Vic 20,… Read More »
This post is out of date! An Updated post with a new script is here: http://shafe.n5net.com/2013/01/09/compiling-darwin-streaming-server-6-0-3-under-debian-updated/ I was recently tasked with a Linux install of Darwin Streaming Server on a Debian server. Unfortunately for me Apple stopped making Windows and Linux builds of DSS when version 6.0 was released. After a lot of failed attempts at… Read More »