Author: Ozh
Code 2 min read

What Chmod ? Symbolic to Octal Notation Perl Script

Have you ever "ls -l" a file or directory, watch its "-r-x–s-wT" symbolic notation and ask to yourself: "what the hell is that chmod ?". This was the case for me several times today, so before I spent 1 minute on thinking about the notation, I decided to spent 5 minutes on a quick Perl script. What Chmod converts those…

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Hey, funny. Sony digital cameras save photos with a pattern name starting from DSC00001.JPG and incrementing. What do you think Sony users shoot for their first picture ? Boobies! :) Via delicious/popular and a very old post from Engadget.

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My Life 1 min read

Looking for a Registrar

A call to nice readers: I'm looking for a registrar (just registrar, no hosting needed) which will let me completely manage my DNS, i.e. add custom DNS records (A, MX, CNAME, whatever) for an unlimited number of domains and subdomain. Which will also accept Paypal. Does anyone reading this blog have such a registrar ?

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Web 6 min read

Review of a Freelance WordPress Designer

Let Adii self introduce him: "I'm a freelance web designer & strategist from Cape Town, South Africa and I specialize in WordPress designs. I'm currently finishing my Honours in Business Strategy and I would love to combine traditional business models with the new principles and philosophies of Web 2.0." When Adii asked me to review his site, I was pretty…

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Google 3 min read

16 Online Tools to Check Your Pagerank

Half of the planet (or so) is actually suffering from "Pagerank Update Disorder", which make them check every minute if, finally, the long awaited Google Pagerank update occurred and what PR their various websites now have. If you belong to them, or if you just happen to wonder from time to time "What PR this site has?", here is a…

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Ahah 1 min read

Spam Gets Unreadable

A common spammer's trick to escape mail filters is to sort-of cypher words so that they remain human-readable. You've received gazillions of them: vi@gr@, v-i-a-g-r-a, [v][i][a][g][r][a] and so on. A mail got through GMail's filter this morning, and I actually spent a few minutes trying to read it because I thought this time they pushed it a little too far.…

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Code 1 min read

How To Display UTF8 in your Putty Bash Shell

I was having a few reading problems on a server I've recently got my hands on: the locale is set to something like French UTF8, but Putty was displaying annoying é and stuff instead of accented characters. I was expecting the solution to be something linuxish like read boring man pages till I finally decide it's not worth the hassle…

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A few weeks ago, when I had some bad times with WordPress spewing Errors 500 all the time, I decided that, if my site was going to be broken and unusable, at least I'd try to make it a bit less boring. So I made sort of "funny" custom error pages (see the 404 for example). Nothing uberhilarious nor super genius, but at least there's some humor and service in it. And you know what? Someone actually thanked me for it :) My pleasure, Becca.

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