Attention in classroom
I’m using an IMAP account with Outlook so that I can keep my mail synched with my laptop and also access my mailbox via the web. This works great, but my Sent Items are still stored locally and thus do not sync.
Continue reading “IMAP accounts and saving Sent Items to the server”
WDLXTV is a homebrew firmware developed by the community for the WDTV line of products from Western Digital. Its goal is to add a lot of new features on top of what is already provided by WD, such as movie sheets, Bittorrent, streaming from external online sources, and a lot more. Continue reading “WDLXTV”
The tar (tape archive) command bundles a bunch of files together and creates an archive (commonly called a tar file or tarball) on a tape, disk drive, or floppy disk. The original files are not deleted after being copied to the tar file. To create an archive using tar, use a command like this, which bundles all the files in the current directory that end with .doc into the alldocs.tar file:
Improved progress bar which is utilizing immediate JavaScript commands to change the progress bar’s DIV width (controlled from PHP). No sessions and no AJAX required. Continue reading “Progress bar for a lengthy PHP process”
This is one of the most common topics that I see customers will ask about. As highly important as PHP handlers are, they often the least understood. They seem complicated, but its not too hard to understand. You don’t have to know that exact science of how it all works, but one should learn the basics if you want to take your website seriously. Picking the right PHP handler for your website will give you the optimal speeds you want and maybe allow you to save some money by using a cheaper hosting package. So I invite you to take a few minutes and learn something new.
Continue reading “DSO (mod_php) vs. CGI vs. suPHP vs. FastCGI”
I figured it out. It turns out the GNU Tar which I have as I use Ubuntu requires that the path to be tar’d come after the exclude options. The example listed here had it before. Continue reading “Linux Exclude directory in tar and zip”