Category Archives: Techy

Programming! Also Linux, web design, hardware… But mostly programming.

image generation in PHP

Creating images on-the-fly can be a very useful skill. Using PHP's built-in image generation functions, it's pretty easy, too. This tutorial will detail how to have the titles of blog entries show up as automatically generated images. What we'll be doing is passing arguments via the URL to a separate file that will be [...]
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ad blocking through /etc/hosts

There are several ad sites that you’ll see being used everywhere. They slow down page loading, even on fast connections, because sometimes there’ll be lag and they won’t load immediately and instead of being able to read that interesting news article, you’re stuck waiting for some Flash animation to show up so you can [...]
Also posted in Linux | 4 Comments | Current music Nine Inch Nails - We're in This Together

Protected: drive repartitioning

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soup and SQL

Ahh, chicken noodle soup; I love this stuff. I had some at my aunt’s over the break and I’ve been wanting more ever since. I’m not talking about the soup with vegetables and everything else, but the classic Campbell’s chicken noodle that’s a bright yellow from all the butter. Surprisingly, the bowl [...]
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gripes about MS from MS

From a Microsoft Exchange partisan: There is a 0 day exploit of another Microsoft file format that makes your Windows XP system wide-open for hackers if you made some bad decisions. On top of those is still using Microsoft Internet Explorer to surf the Internet – what in the world are you thinking? How many times [...]
Also posted in Funny | 2 Comments | Current music A Perfect Circle - The Outsider

DRM idiocy knows no bounds

How ridiculous is this? These terms of use are from the new Coldplay CD: This CD cannot be burnt onto a CD-R or hard disk, nor can it be converted into MP3 for file sharing. This CD has been manufactured for usage in regular CD players but might not play in the following players: Some CD players [...]
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non-English characters in Linux

It's easy to make accented characters (e.g. é and ü) in Linux. Easier than in Windows, actually, because in Windows you have to remember all those crazy Alt codes, and in Linux, it's logical combinations of accents and letters.
Also posted in Linux | Tagged , | 12 Comments | Current music Stone Temple Pilots - Wonderful

extracting audio from a DVD

It's pretty easy to extract just the audio from a DVD in Linux, using Mplayer, sox, and either Audacity or split.
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Clichés of a Crappy Site

If you’ve browsed through many personal sites at all, you’ve probably seen some of the following things that make me personally cringe. I don’t understand why they’re so trendy, since they don’t improve a site in the least. The example images link to the web sites from which I took the screen shot. Text Tiny fonts The purpose [...]
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beginning Linux guide

Don't look on this guide as though you have to learn all this stuff right now in order to be able to use Linux. No. You can get around otherwise, enjoying Linux and getting work done at the same time without messing around with the command-line, which is what a lot of this guide deals with. Look over this guide and then pick and choose what you need. Want to learn how to change file permissions? Check out the section on the chmod command. Want to know what program to use for a certain task? Check out that section. You don't have to memorize all this stuff to get around, but it's there if you need it.
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