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In this article I am going to describe how get the data from your visitors based on geographic location. I’ll use PECL extension for PHP called geoip. Step 1First we need to install PEAR package (if you’ve not installed it yet). We also need to install needed dependencies and libraries like re2c, libgeoip1 and libgeoip-dev. … Read more
Convert a iso-8859-1 charset file into a utf-8 charset file using standard Linux tools. The solution is using bash shell on a Linux OS: iconv –from-code=ISO-8859-1 –to-code=UTF-8 iso.txt > utf.txt
If you are getting troubles installing ffmpeg with sound support on your ubuntu machine then follow this guide. I am pretty sure this one is quite easy to follow. 😉 1. First of all install php5-ffmpeg via apt-get. sudo apt-get install php5-ffmpeg 2. Now add mediaubuntu repositories: sudo wget https://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list Then add GPG key: … Read more
If you already have a SSH server runnning at home than the hard part is over. The easy part is to setup your browser and download Putty to your work or school computer. 1. Download putty from Putty 2. Now move the putty to the C: 3. Run command window (Tip: Windows flag + r than … Read more
There are two simple ways to disable enter key in your forms. 1. The first one is a piece of javascript that you include in your head section. <script language=”JavaScript”>function disableEnterKey(e){var key;if(window.event)key = window.event.keyCode; //IEelsekey = e.which; //firefoxif(key == 13)return false;elsereturn true;} 2. Than in the form issue onKeyPress like this: <input type=”text” onkeypress=”return disableEnterKey(event)”> … Read more
Finally I’ve managed to “find out” how to install ffmpeg converting tool with needed codecs that supports video conversation with sound. Now days you can install ffmpeg as a php module directly from aptitute (synaptic or apt-get) so no compiling is needed. At command line just run: sudo apt-get install php5-ffmpeg Edit sources-list: sudo nano … Read more
If you do not believe me take a look at my screenshot I took yesterday night. Screenshot date: 2008-02-06 (Well, it was long time ago 🙂 ) The language on screenshot is Swedish but I think it’s not hard to understand what stands on it. Isn’t it amazing how Microsoft guys count 13Mb/s to be … Read more
I have had headache removing Windows Vista to replace it with Ubuntu. Every time I’ve tried to boot from some other media it didn’t work. Booting from Windows XP caused a blue screen. Finally I’ve found a solution to install Ubuntu on my system. 1. Boot the computer and press F12 when bios appears2. Go … Read more
Postfix stores mails in a queue before sending it. Sometimes you wish to remove the mails from the queue but wonder how. Postfix has a command line called postsuper which can be used to delete unsent mails from the queue. Before removing the mail from the queue it is good idea to list all mails … Read more
This tutorial will teach you how to successfully install php-ffmpeg on ubuntu 7.10 but approach is the same no matter which Ubuntu version you might use. You do not need to follow steps below if you run latest Ubuntu release. You can install php-ffmpeg as a module via aptitude or synaptic. Before you start with … Read more