In PHP, to get the name of the web server, you can print $_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”]. However, if you use round-robin DNS or a load balancer, this will give you the name Apache thinks your machine is. What if you want the real hostname — what you’d get from hostname or uname? print gethostbyaddr(“127.0.0.1”); That’s all. It …
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I was searching the web for JavaScript HTML entity unescaping code. I found lots of really bad ideas. Sound familiar? Some were quite complicated. It looked like the scriptaculous guys had the right idea. However, all I could find was a cached page with no code. A quick peek inside prototype set me on the …
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Help John McCain count his houses
Here is how you create a self-signed SSL certificate for the Dovecot IMAP/POP server on Debian Linux: openssl req -new -x509 -days 1000 -nodes -out “/etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem” -keyout “/etc/ssl/private/dovecot.pem” The default is 365 days, but I upped it to 1000, so I don’t have to do this so often. Dovecot does this on installation via /var/lib/dpkg/info/dovecot-common.postinst; …
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There are lots of San Francisco Bay Area-oriented Obama web sites. However, many of them have not been updated in quite a while: Silicon Valley for Obama aka Ca14forObama (June 22, 2008) Bay Area for Obama (and its clones, South Bay for Obama, etc.) (February 22, 2008) Obama SF (unknown) SF 4 Obama (unknown) Are …
Please call today and oppose the FISA Amendments Act (HR 6304). It is not acceptable to give away our civil liberties. Granting retroactive immunity to telecom companies is wrong. This bill is not a “compromise.” It is a get-out-of-jail-free card bought by lobbyists for large phone companies. No matter how illegal, offensive or intrusive a …
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Schmap, an online city guide, has published several of my photos. In San Francisco: Melissa Rapp at the Hotel Utah Peter Adams at the Great American Music Hall Gemma Hayes at Cafe du Nord And elsewhere: Aquagrill (NYC) Chez Nous (Austin)
FotoMagico is program that lets you create amazing slideshows. In FotoMagico, slides advance in one of two ways: automatically, after a set time period after a mouse click If you’ve picked option (2), you see a “fast forward” overlay when you click the mouse: I dislike this. Fortunately, there’s a preference to turn this off. …
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This will prevent many of the annoying ads from showing up on Facebook: sudo echo “127.0.0.1 ads.ak.facebook.com” >> /etc/hosts One would think with all the demographic data they have about me, they could show me relevant ads. One would be wrong.