I had a situation where a parent Perl script (web-accessible, in cgi-bin) needed to call a long-running child Perl script that was outside cgi-bin. I wanted the parent to call the child and then exit immediately, allowing the parent script browser window to stop loading and the child to continue running in the background and […]
There’s no quicker way to give hackers your Facebook username and password than to mistype the Facebook URL in your browser window and type it into a phishing site. (Phishing sites are designed to look like the real site, but are run by Very Bad People With Nothing Better To Do so that they can […]
If you need to make WordPress comments visible on the index page (not just within a post), add this line wherever you want comments to show: <?php $withcomments = true; comments_template();?> You might need to disable comments elsewhere in the template, or they might show up twice, but that depends on the theme. One commenter […]
If you need to view what’s happening on another TTY on your headless linux box, you can SSH in, su, and then do: tail -f /dev/vcs1 This will enable you to see what’s happening on the headless TTY on your local screen. There’s a utility called “screen” that is similar, but the above trick works […]
If you use Outlook 2007 with IMAP and Exchange, you have probably noticed that every time you restart Outlook you have to re-expand your IMAP folders to see whether you have any new messages in your IMAP inboxes. When you’re used to Exchange and push mail, this can lead to a frustrating problem because I […]
If you installed Outlook 2007 and you hate the menu font, it’s probably because you don’t like Cleartype. I can’t stand it. And it’s bad enough that in order to get rid of that hideous Segoe UI font in Outlook 2007 you have to change it in about 5 places. I can’t even remember them […]
I wrote a little one-liner to celebrate the epoch time of 1234567890, reached at approximately 3:30 PST on Friday, February 13, 2009. Here’s the code: perl -e “print \`clear\`; print \”Starting at: \” . \`date\`; while (1) { \$exclaim = ”; if (time() == 1234567890) { \$exclaim = \” FTW\!\!\!\”; } print time() . \$exclaim […]