Archive for November, 2011

30 Nov
2011

HylaFax needs fonts

Trying to use HylaFax on CentOS 6, I got the following message: 
<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>usr<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>sbin<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>textfmt: No font metric information found <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">for</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;Courier-Bold&quot;</span>.

Usage: <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>usr<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>sbin<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>textfmt <span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>-<span style="color: #000000;">1</span><span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span> <span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>-<span style="color: #000000;">2</span><span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span> <span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>-B<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span> <span style="color:

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30 Nov
2011

Un-hide the “http://” in Firefox 7

Firefox 7 has this annoying feature to hide the http:// in front of an address and to hide a single trailing forward slash. What's most annoying, is that when copying the url to a clipboard, it prepends the http:// again. So when I enter a website, then copy the domainname

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25 Nov
2011

Reconfigure nspluginwrapper

Yay, I just upgraded my nspluginwrapper and everything broke. Again. Couldn't use youtube or any of my other favorite sites anymore. Running firefox from the console gave me some feedback: 
<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">***</span> NSPlugin Viewer  <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">***</span> ERROR: NP_Initialize<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#41;</span> get args: Message argument mismatch

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15 Nov
2011

WordPress: Posting images using XML-RPC

The following code uploads a file using xmlrpc... and without using all kinds of libs, you just need the regular php-xmlrpc module. 
<span style="color: #000088;">$rpcurl</span><span style="color: #339933;">=</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">'http://www.geeklab.info/xmlrpc.php'</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span>

<span style="color: #000088;">$username</span><span style="color: #339933;">=</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">'admin'</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span>

<span style="color: #000088;">$password</span><span style="color: #339933;">=</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">'your-password'</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span>

<span style="color: #000088;">$blogid</span><span style="color: #339933;">=</span><span style="color: #cc66cc;">1</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> <span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic;">//Post ID</span>

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<span style="color: #000088;">$file</span><span style="color: #339933;">=</span><span style="color: #990000;">file_get_contents</span><span style="color: #009900;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">'file.jpg'</span><span style="color: #009900;">&#41;</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span>

<span style="color: #000088;">$filetype</span> <span style="color: #339933;">=</span> <span

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8 Nov
2011

Syslog kills Postfix performance

This night, some scriptkiddie decided it'd be fun to overload one of my servers by bruteforcing the FTP. The FTP server taking 90% of the CPU made the whole server slow. Especially the Postfix mailserver experienced a huge delay. Anyway, I just firewalled out the scriptkiddie and Postfix could start

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