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Use this: find . -type f  -newer /last_time_file -print0 | tar -czvf backup.tar.gz -T – –null It will: deal with files with spaces, newlines, leading dashes, and other funniness handle an unlimited number of files won’t repeatedly overwrite your backup.tar.gz … Continue reading →

We had problems with IE page minimizing when we called xajax server functions from dialogs that sent commands to close the dialogs. To fix it I changed the way we sent the script to close the dialog from: $(‘#notice_message’).dialog(‘close’); with … Continue reading →

When moving mysql databases between machines. It is best if all stored procedures, functions, and views need to have the following line after their create statement: DEFINER=CURRENT_USER SQL SECURITY INVOKER Example: CREATE OR REPLACE DEFINER=CURRENT_USER SQL SECURITY INVOKER VIEW MYVIEW … Continue reading →

I wanted to combine my snippets of video shot on our family vacation into one file for easy viewing on my mythtv frontend. I tried to use mkvmerge, but it gave errors because of the heading / encodings.  so only … Continue reading →

Xajax:    $objResponse->create(“content”, “div”, “done_message”); $html = “ Save Complete”; $objResponse->assign(‘done_message’, ‘innerHTML’, “$html”); $objResponse->script(” $(‘#done_message’).dialog({ width: 300, height: 130, modal:true, resizable: false, draggable: false, dialogClass: ‘done_message’ }); “); $objResponse->script(” $(‘#done_message’).closest(‘.ui-dialog’).find(‘.ui-dialog-titlebar’).hide();”); $objResponse->script( “setTimeout(function(){ $(‘#done_message’).fadeOut(300, function(){ $(this).remove();});}, 500);  “);     CSS: … Continue reading →

This is what I did to install handbrake on ubuntu 12.04 sudo apt-add-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-snapshots sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk    

Tried this command tonight to turn off greylisting.  Hopefully other spam filters will catch most spam so this will allow legitimate email through. /usr/local/psa/bin/grey_listing –update-server -status off To find info on greylisting use this: /usr/local/psa/bin/grey_listing –info-server

This is a good instruction i found for pemissions Directory permissions and ownership are important too. The /var/log/httpd/suexec_log  is the place to look when regular error_log doesn’t show anything…   Firstly, make sure you upload the script into the cgi-bin … Continue reading →