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Recent content by mrt

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    Some Sad News I'm Afraid...

    Certainly sad to hear. I met Julian on here and did some work with him on the earliest iterations of Domain Manage. We haven't spoken for a while and it's a pity we won't get that chance. RIP!
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    Dragon by Nominet

    And with a little bit of mocking the APIs it expects, you can have a look at what's behind the login form :) Looks like it's an application used by owners of TLDs that Nominet is managing, perhaps. Will do some more probing if there's interest!
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    Any MySQL wizards here?

    It's feasible to do this within the database itself rather than pulling a million rows into PHP - and dealing with the memory usage that entails! I found this which almost does what you want: https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/82456 - I modified it slightly to add counts and order by most frequent...
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    Backup Solution

    Veeam is free to back up physical machines - not "free because it's shit" but rather "free because their core market is backing up virtual machines" In my experience it's fast and painless and the rescue restore works a treat (boot off CD/DVD/USB stick and restore your backup over the network)
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    Easiest way to upload a .war file.

    It's been a long time since I've used it but Tomcat is probably still the best (only?) way to deploy your .war files on Linux. DO has lots of tutorials, looks like they cover Tomcat 7 and 8: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/search?q=tomcat&primary_filter=newest&type=tutorials At...
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    Email Forwarding / Cpanel

    How about something like the below? Simplest way I can think of to change the 'To' address on the email to keep the printer happy. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # Real email address for the printer my $email = '[email protected]'; my $sm; open($sm, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail...
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    Wanted: Service Coder required for edits SagepayForm encryption

    If you do find yourself experiencing trouble and need to get your transaction processing into a supported state, give me a shout - I'm not a crypto expert but a competent programmer all the same and I'd be happy to sort this out for you.
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    Wanted: Service Any developers online? Post available.

    It'd be very handy if you could give a very high level overview of what you want - especially along the lines of potential budget and to give an idea of the magnitude of the project. Some devs may be available for small or short term projects, and others may prefer to look only at more...
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    Direct Debit

    I use GoCardless as a merchant to receive recurring payments. It works well once it's set up, fees are cheaper than card payments. Payout times are relatively slow at 1-2 weeks depending on where weekends fall; that's fine if you can run your business from working capital while waiting for DD...
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    Stars in titles

    I completely agree modifying system files isn't ideal when you're wanting to track upstream releases, but AD runs on an already-modified vB3 which isn't in a position to track newer vBulletin versions so it's much less of a crucial issue. It's purely a quick "annoyance fix" which isn't really...
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    Stars in titles

    The correct fix would probably be a hook that runs on newthread_post_start but - in lieu of knowing how to do that - stripping those characters from thread titles in newthread.php should be trivial with something like: $vbulletin->GPC['subject'] = str_replace("\xe2\x98\x85", ''...
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    speeding up website for mobile/tablet

    As a sysadmin I see lots of WordPress websites, it's all too easy for a WP user to introduce slowdowns with extra plugins, and some of them are hideous in terms of their CPU usage - not really the website owners' fault, but causes speed issues all the same. My go-to first suggestion is to look...
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    Wanted: Service any htaccess wizzes out there?

    What do your other rewrite rules look like? Feel free to PM with the real URLs if you'd rather keep them quiet - though it'd be nice to post an anonymised summary of the problem in the thread once sorted!
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    Nginx Redirect Help

    You need to escape the question marks and the rewrites should probably be in your "location /" block, like so: location / { rewrite index.asp\?ID=38 http://www.newsite.org.uk/cumbria.htm redirect; rewrite index.asp\?ID=39 http://www.newsite.org.uk/greater-manchester.htm redirect; }...
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    sendmail problem

    Assuming you have cPanel installed (based on your mention of WHM) you probably don't want to be installing sendmail - cPanel uses the Exim mail server and both sendmail and Exim can't/shouldn't coexist on a server. On cPanel servers, the mail() function generally sends mail via Exim and if...
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