Ever had to add hundreds or even thousands of usernames to a htaccess file at once? Although rare this problem has come up for me recently (strangely enough with the same password as the username - obviously not a secure method but something that was necessary for the project).

The solution I created for this problem is htpmake, essentially a PHP script that takes a text file and outputs a file that of usernames and passwords you can use with your htaccess file.

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Just a quick note to hosting clients using SSH, The RSA Host key for users on Cerritos is now 08:c4:e4:41:7a:00:80:10:cb:d0:39:25:09:eb:f8:17 - Please update your known_hosts accordingly or send us an e-mail if you have any difficulties.

Just a quick note to let everyone know that the new Codingo website is now live. You can view this at http://codingo.com.au.

Lately I’ve started reading a very interesting blog. So interesting in fact that i’ve had to dedicate this post to it.

The blog is “An app a day”, a blog by a programmer named Dana Hanna who calls himself the (or a?) Software Jedi.

Dana intends to write an application a day, for 30 days…

You can check this blog out by clicking the link in my blogroll or clicking here if you’re just plain lazy…

Out of the blue I have been receiving the error shown below whenever I tried mounting a samba share in finder:

For some reason the finder stopped being able to mount shares on any machine, anywhere…

The solution to this lies in mounting a share manually through the terminal. It seems that after I had connected to the machine using smbclient I was able to mount shares in the finder again.

Michael:~ michaelskelton$ smbclient //192.168.0.3/PUBLIC/ -U MICHAELSKELTON

Other useful commands I used when diagnosing the issue were: smbmount and smbtree .

After spending almost three hours improving the speed of various projects of mine I have compiled the following list of key points you can use to help you get MySQL to perform to its fullest…

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Recently, I heard about a few people having problems with their system time becoming incorrect in Windows XP when using boot camp. This is due to the different way Windows XP and OS X store internal date and time information.

If you look at page 17 of the Boot Camp Beta Setup Guide you will see that this issue is addressed.

Apple suggests synchronising the time to a network time server - a feature available in Date & Time Control Panel (XP) and Date and Time System Preference pane (OS X).

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Funny thing happened to me today! I had just finished installing Windows on my Macbook, and it was rebooting. As it was rebooting I noticed it was saying, “Press any key to boot from cd…” It was already past the apple boot loader, so I wondered if this extra boot from cd option would work with Linux. I popped in the last Ubuntu cd I had burned and behold! It booted with no errors, with X and all. I started poking around to see what worked and what didn’t. From what I can tell so far, EVERYTHING works.

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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet. It is mainly designed for group (many-to-many) communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication.

If you are not familiar about what IRC is, then I would suggest you read the Intro to IRC on the mIRC homepage. If you are already well acquainted with IRC and you are looking for a comprehensive-commands-guide, then you can also checkout the IRC command list also found on the mIRC homepage.

This guide will show you the different methods you can use to increase the privacy of your online conversations as well as way to conceal your identity a bit better.

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I’ve been hearing around the place that a number of people can’t delete .html files from their trashcan with the OS X 10.4.7 update…

If you are experiencing this problem, then open up the terminal and type cd .trash to be taken to the trashcan folder. You can then use rm $filename to remove the offending file or rm -R $folder name to remove a folder. If you experience any problems doing this then use the sudo command before trying the aforementioned fix.

Be warned it probably won’t ask you if you are sure you want to delete the files, so get it right..

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