Author: mgargiullo
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Looking for the meat in a heavily commented config file
Just a quickie. Thought I’d share a tidbit here. If you ever find yourself looking through a file and only want the lines that matter, you can pretty easily do this with ‘cat’ and ‘grep’. Whilw I won’t go into detail as to all the fun uses of these, not into the multitude of other…
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I’m Back!
Sorry… Haven’t been here in a while. I’ve been busy… You know, kids, work, life in general. I do have a few things I’d like to share… stay tuned.
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Using a proxy to help screen what the kids do on the computer
Paula and I were discussing how best to keep junk off the computers. By junk, I not only mean malware, but more importantly, ethylmethylbadshit. There is so much imformation on the web that the kids just shouldn’t be exposed to yet. However, In my line of work I have to visit some… not so nice…
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Installing PECLjson on CentOS 5.3
I’m writing a bit of PHP that requires the use of the json_encode function. This function is built into php > 5.2 and on Fedora 10, it’s not an issue. json_encode PHP 5 >= 5.2.0, PECL json >= 1.2.0 Unfortunately Cent OS 5.3 uses php 5.1.6. No worries, using pecl it’s relatively straight forward .…
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Synfig Animation Studio on Fedora 10
Matt asked to be able to create his own cartoons over the weekend. I did a little research and since the kids laptop runs Fedora 10, I had a few choices and narrowed it down to ktoon and synfig. It appeared people had some success in building RPMs for synfig on Fedora 9, so I…