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If you think you are anonymous on the internet check out this site
A browser tells the site it is visiting about itself: the plugins it is using, the screen resolution it is set at, the fonts available for display, It's preferred language/timezone and many other little details... (OS etc) It does this in order for the remote site to...
Ubuntu 10.04 – OpenOffice 3.2 cannot Spell Check with Australian Default Locale
Despite the oo website saying that the Australian dictionary is include in OO 3.x.x I couldn't spell check my docs. The "Text Language" field of the OpenOffice Spell Checking dialog was missing. So I had to download the OpenOffice Australian Dictionary and install it...
www.zshare.net DNS black holed
Check this out... Watching a video that was hosted on zshare.net... Tried to watch the next one in the series. Firefox kept saying that I had a problem loading the page. A little investigation and I discovered that DNS was replying with the address for localhost...
Evolution – Exchange the Sand Dune Edition
Evolution at least the Exchange integration component is so buggy you could drive it on sand dunes. Every time I update Ubuntu I try the default mail application. For Ubuntu this is Evolution. Call me optimistic but as time progresses I would hope that basic...
How many Unique IP’s have Connected to your Apache Website
This will tell you how many unique IP addresses have connected to your website since the last log file rotation. So if your logs are rotated daily then you have the number of unique IP's for roughly the last 24hour # go to your apache logs directory and run: $ cat...
MySQL Backup to Email or Disk Script
If you run mysqldump --all-databases you get one monolithic file which can be a pain when trying to restore one database. So it's nice to call mysqldump dbname so you get individual database backup files. To call mysqldump for each database requires that you either...