Computers

A tranche of daily Http: requests to my server, a peculiar block of chinese addresses and other IPs in my apache conf blacklist. These guys are fucking relentless.

Perl script scraping the Apache error logs and poking them into mysql using DBI:

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What is the Cat Cam ?

Sun, 09/25/2011 - 10:11 — JamesH

This was one of the original objectives for my home-server system. Since I'm leaving a computer running full time with a 5/30Mb internet connection, I might as well make it pay for itself.

Take a $29 webcam, add Zoneminder open source software (on top of a LAMP) and you have an in-home security and monitoring system.

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Drupal WYSIWYG module and gallery.menalto.com hack

Sat, 09/24/2011 - 23:20 — admin

Gallery2 image buttons missing from the your rich-text editor ? I'm sure this is relevant to the other CMS', Joomla and wordpress.
From the drupal issues queue http://drupal.org/node/300305
http://drupal.org/node/350100

Locate the wysiwyg_tinymce_plugins function in tinymce.inc

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Gallery2 .htaccess rewrite conditions

Sat, 09/25/2010 - 18:25 — admin

# BEGIN Url Rewrite section
# (Automatically generated. Do not edit this section)
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteBase /

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} gallery\_remote2\.php
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/index\.php$
    RewriteRule .   -   [L]

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Various drupal hacks

Don't you hate it when you hack something or pour over a problem, only to forget later how you did it ? This is a dump of various hacks that's open to indexing by the search engines, perhaps something can be of value to others messing with drupal core code (faux pas), css, modules, layout or whatever.

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How to setup drupal calendar irregular date repeats

To set up a calendar repeat of a date that isnt a numerical date, i.e. Thanksgiving is the 4th Thursday of every November, use the calendar modlue advanced repeat properties.

Here's a screen print of the details to make it work, notice that I chose every 12 months. If you choose every year the content is not passed to the calendar.