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hosting control panels

0. http://www.gplhost.com/software-dtc.html demo - none usage - google for dtc AND hosting = 225K articles pros - active support http://forums.gplhost.com/phpBB2/ - run in XEN - up to date systems - advanced LAMP stack hosting with firewall and mail scanner - domain reg - payment gateways - integrated backup - integrated updates cons - weak documentation http://dtcsupport.gplhost.com/ - no scheduler for integrated backup - no vm support - no cluster support - no special php modules - no packages 1. http://ispconfig.org/ demo - http://ispconfig.org/demo.htm usage - google for ispconfig AND hosting = 55K articles pros - active support http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=14 - importer from confixx - commercial support - run in centos VM on centos - migrate confixx accounts http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3490 - up to date systems - basic LAMP stack hosting with firewall and mail scanner - integrated backup - integrated updates cons - no scheduler for inte

jmeter

JMeter - I like it for load testing sites... get: http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/ how to use it: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/01/15/jmeter.html review of it: http://www.linux.com/feature/34432 or if you want command line tools: http://www.linux.com/feature/143896

what i hate about the iTouch / iPhone

i have been use apple products since i was 14 (so 23 years) i have had an apple //e, an Mac SE (dual floppy), PowerBook 100, G3 Wallstreet PowerBook, Beige G3 Desktop, 17" 1ghz AL PowerBook, and finally a Core 2 Duo 2ghz White MacBook. (i also own several intel mac minis, the 17" imac g4, g4 towers etc - but they are "work" computers and not "mine") i love macs - but i hate the touch and 6 months ago i bought a touch Crime Against humanity #1 - it doesn't have copy and paste. for this reason alone there should be class action lawsuit, jail time, and televised painful public executions. or perhaps in the interest of saving the planet - the executives should be used a human mine detectors, clearing mined fields in the war torn parts of the world. you might think this is ridiculous and extreme - of all the things to get work up about - copy and paste missing from a crappy $600 touch screen computer that fits in your shirt pocket. you might say, josh - the

how i made a video mag

i put bookmarks to the videos on the desktop i opened quicktime broadcaster for audio and vide i installed slimserver so i could put bookmarkts to my audio files on the desktop i put bookmarks to my fast tracks on the desktop i introduced the show i introduced the episode i introdcued future episodes i credited the show and the show products macosxhints.com - Listen to iTunes over the net via a free streaming server

iphone

summary: mobileme, gps, ipod, safari + apps + wifi (+ rogers/fido hotspots - no idea how many) missing: copy and paste - fix by sending it over the internet?? IPhone: Copy and Paste on Your iPhone With iCopy what: 3g vs 2g - double the speed - a page that took 30seconds to load now only takes 16seconds - OMG why: isn't apple selling the roger's iphone in their stores?? protest: $100 for 6gbs to $30 6/gb - $5/gb is ok - but only till end of august?? after that it's back to $16.67/gb must take 3 year contract - why is that a pain? i want a new one in 2 years... reportonbusiness.com: Rogers blinks on iPhone pricing 62,263 people signing petition over the deal: RuinedIphone.com | Screwing Canadian iPhone customers since 2008

make iso image from command to clone cd or dvd

http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2006/08/14/create-iso-cd-dvd-image-with-mac-os-x-tiger-10-4 which says: 1. Insert CD/DVD source 2. Fire up a Terminal, you can then determine the device that is you CD/DVD drive using the following command: $ drutil status Vendor Product Rev MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-835E GAND Type: DVD-ROM Name: /dev/disk1 Cur Write: 8x DVD Sessions: 1 Max Write: 8x DVD Tracks: 1 Overwritable: 00:00:00 blocks: 0 / 0.00MB / 0.00MiB Space Free: 00:00:00 blocks: 0 / 0.00MB / 0.00MiB Space Used: 364:08:27 blocks: 1638627 / 3.36GB / 3.13GiB Writability: Book Type: DVD-ROM 3. Umount the disk with the following command: $ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1 Disk /dev/disk1 unmounted 4. Create the ISO file with the dd utility (may take some time): $ dd if=/dev/disk1 of=file.iso bs=2048 5. Test the ISO image by mounting the new f

have to have wget

http://kdmurray.net/2007/04/03/getting-wget-for-os-x-104x/ http://krell.cellsandbytes.net/wp-content/uploads/wget_1.10.2.tar.gz forget about the shell script - its in the tar.gz - just do it manually then you can mirror an entire site like this: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wget/ [»] Get a whole website including pictures, css, etc by Ian Hyatt - Sep 13th 2001 17:00:53 This utility is awesome!! You can get a whole website including pictures, css, etc and it will change all the links for you such that the site works on your local machine. wget -m -p -k url

multihoming mac os x

a client has a server with a public ip, and the have their own private network and they want to see both networks... so the answer is multihoming - give a network card multiple ip addresss. how to do it: http://www.apple.com/enews/2002/features/pogue.html http://www.afp548.com/Articles/system/multihoming.html

Mac Mail too Slow

I can't use it because my mailbox is several gigabytes in size, and I use IMAP shared folders that 20gbs+ and Mail is way tooo slow. I would like to use it but it was driving me crazy. Switching to thunderbird solved the problem.