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Record Cell Phone Calls with Drop.io Service (free)

Drew — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:00:03 +0000

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 Read More »

Curing ‘Symbolic link not allowed’ (Apache 2.0)

Drew — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:19:39 +0000

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. The Scenario In our example, out DocumentRoot Read More »

VMWare: “Failed to create named-pipe directory” error

Drew — Wed, 30 May 2007 08:09:31 +0000

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. The error message at hand is the following: /var/log/vmware-mui/error_log ModVmdb load: Address of ModVmdb_InitCore: 0xb7c745a0 Failed to create named-pipe directory: /var/run/vmware//httpd/3854: No such file or directory VMWARE PANIC: \nNOT_IMPLEMENTED F(4023):707 Panic: Could not Read More »

How-To: Password Protect Apache Directories with .htaccess

Drew — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:17:54 +0000

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. Grab Your Read More »