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Dia — Joining Lines where they Cross over Each Other
Dia is a great Open Source diagramming program that has extensive `shape' libraries for a lot of different applications (I use it for drawing network diagrams and flow-charts). When using Dia one of the questions that arises fairly regularly is: Is it possible to...
XML POST Proxy Script using PHP and libcurl
This is the simplest answer I could find for a client needing to POST an XML SOAP message to a server in another domain. Not sure on the security because the POST isn't validated so it just passes on whatever the client sends. libcurl has a lot of options
jQuery — It begins
So most day's I'm an infrastructure and apps guy. Which means a bit of: Cisco Windows ERP And a heap of general IT So then comes a long a project which requires coding... And because my ERP spits out and receives XML and Internet browsers are very friendly with the...
Resolve Relative to Absolute Paths with readlink
Just wanted to resolve a relative file path so that I can pass it as an absolute path to a program. #!/bin/sh QCAD_DIR=/opt/qcad-2.2.2.0-1-prof.linux.x86 ABS_PATH=$(readlink -f "$1") cd $QCAD_DIR && ./qcad $ABS_PATH Credits: Andy
Cisco 877 Continual Reload
I used Cisco's SDM to configure the stateful firewall component on a Cisco 877 but I let it add all the automatic Instant Messenger rules. That's when things started going wrong. The Cisco crashed and reloaded... probably 10 times a day. Deleting the IM stateful...
Shock! Horror! Shock! No wait I said that already — Youtube Unavailable
OK so it happens so rarely that I had to post about it. On Wed 14 Jul 2010 06:38:24 PM AEST I got this when attempting to put on some tunes to shower by: