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Buckeye Trailer Center

Yazan: dp | 16 December 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Computers, Internet, Software

Image via Wikipedia A few weeks ago, I wrapped up (mostly) a project that I’ve been working on for a while, BuckeyeTrailerCenter.com. It was largely a learning experience for me, as I wrote it from scratch, ground up, using Zend Framework. I’ve never used a “proper” MVC system before, so this was an interesting project. [...]

Wikileaks Mirrors

Yazan: dp | 07 December 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Computers, Internet, Politics, Software

I’ve been following the latest WikiLeaks release a bit, and had noticed that they’d set up a way to mirror the content automagically. I thought it was cool, and even considered doing it myself. Then I thought about the fact that my IP could be tied to me, and what kind of consequences there could [...]

Backwards searching in your browser

Yazan: dp | 02 September 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Computers, Software

Did you know that you can search backwards in your browser (at least Firefox and Chrome anyway)? You can! In this page, hit Control+F to search for “in”. If you hit enter a few times, you should be pulled down the page as you find new search entries. What happens if you miss one? While [...]

The Ultimate Wireless Connection

Yazan: dp | 07 August 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: Computers, Religion

I recently saw a sign in front of a church stating that god was the ultimate wireless connection. Except, it’s not the ultimate wireless connection. Think about it this way. Your prayer is a UDP transmission. You have now way to verify that its been received. You go on “faith” that the daemon process on [...]

ECS A785GM-M

Yazan: dp | 04 June 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: Computers

FYI, The ECS A785GM-M 1.0 does *not* have a speaker connector. Makes it difficult to have a system beep without the built-in speaker.

ntpq -p ‘Name or service not known’

Yazan: dp | 08 February 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Computers

If you have an ntp server running on your machine, chances are you also have ntpq. It’s a little utility to show you the servers you have in your ntp.conf, and what’s going on with them. If you try to run ntpq -p, and receive the error ‘Name or service not known’, then chances are, [...]