Archive for March, 2009

Change in CURLOPT_NOBODY option

Be careful when upgrading PHP, if you’re using cURL. Somewhere between PHP 5.2.6 and 5.2.9, the definition of the CURLOPT_NOBODY option was changed. After upgrading (under duress — but that’s a different story…), all my ecommerce scripts that handled posting customer data to our processing company were completely fuxored. My main ecommerce site was on [...]

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Problems with vi, vim and the paste command

Have you ever tried to cut and paste text into vi or vim through a terminal, only to find the formatting completely screwed up? Yeah, me too…  I finally came across an answer to this pesky problem and it’s so simple, I’m surprised it wasn’t easier to find. The next time you want to paste [...]

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Quick NIS passwd to LDAP script

I found this awk script while browsing around on the web. I was looking for a simple way to migrate an NIS+ passwd file to LDAP config and this is what I found. Unfortunately, when I went to cut and paste it into a script on my server, I realized it had a bunch of [...]

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New Blog

I’ve been wanting a place to put my ramblings for a while and, since I’m a programmer, I finally berated myself enough to install Wordpress. I guess it’s about time, since I’ve had this domain sitting here dormant for over ten years. (!!)
So, welcome…

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