Linux

Change file date in linux using touch

To change the date on all files in a folder to 19th February 2009 at 18:00 using the linux command touch # touch * -t “200902191800” It’s a nice way to correct file dates. Replace * with the actual file name if you don’t want to correct all files in the current folder.

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Web

Valid Flash

I’ve gotten tired of my Flashpresentation movies not being valid HTML. After some research and a tip from a friend of mine I found this solution to the problem. <object type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” data=”images/banner.swf” width=”288″ height=”128″> <param name=”movie” value=”images/banner.swf” /> <img src=”banner.gif” width=”288″ height=”128″ alt=”banner” /> </object> It works great and shows a image file if Flash […]

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Linux

Using Forte Agent Newsreader in linux with SSL support

This post describes how you can connect to a NNTP news servers that provides SSL support with your Forte Agent Newsreader version 6.0 under Ubuntu linux. I assume you know how to install Forte Agent in linux or access it from a Windows partition and will not describe that in this post. Installing wine # […]

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Security

Enable secure / https SSL login on mediaWiki 1.13.3

This is how I’ve enabled secure SSL login through https on a mediaWiki 1.13.3 installation. This description might work on other versions of mediaWiki, but that has not been tested. mediWiki doesn’t support SSL login out of the box so a little hack has to be performed. First you need to tell the webserver, in […]

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Scripting

Copy files using tar

This is a oneliner to copy files from current directory to another target directory using tar, preserving file attributes, dates etc. #!/bin/sh fromdir=/path/from todir=/path/to/target echo “cd $fromdir; tar cf – . | (cd $todir; tar xpf -)” cd $fromdir; tar cf – . | (cd $todir; tar xpf -)

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