"Personal thoughts, ramblings, and nonsense from Drew, himself."
This was a pretty cool find, that was merely an accident. I joined the Drop.io service due to trying to find a decent, free AJAX upload script, since I didn’t have the time to write something basic myself. I never actually found one, however, I decided that Drop.io was the closest thing to a solution. Basically, I needed to upload a few files, quickly, so that I could download them on a remote system (without using rsync or scp). If you have a chance to check out Drop.io, please do, then have so many services within the actual Drop.io service, one of them being a voicemail box. Continue reading Record Cell Phone Calls with Drop.io Service (free)
Awhile back when trying to add a directory to Apache on my Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server, I ran into some issues. These issues, of course were the infamous 403 “Forbidden” error that your web barfs up when you try to access a server that is not publicly viewable, because of permission issues. I’m going to give you my scenario and explain how you can fix this issue, so that you don’t have to go through an hour of throwing your hands up in disgust. Continue reading Curing ‘Symbolic link not allowed’ (Apache 2.0)
Have you ever received the Failed to create named-pipe directory error message via the vmware-mui error log files, and not able to access the VMWare Management Interface? If so, here’s the fix. Continue reading VMWare: “Failed to create named-pipe directory” error
Have you ever wanted to let someone download a file or image from your website, but didn’t want to have the whole world know about, such as Google’s great search engine spiders? The robot.txt file only goes so far, personally I’d rather password protect my directories if I don’t want them crawled. It’s a great way to set up realms that only the privileged few know about. I’ll walk you through the very simple steps of doing so, and showing you what gets added on the server side. Continue reading How-To: Password Protect Apache Directories with .htaccess
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