January 2005
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Recursively CHMOD Files
I was moving a bunch of files from one location to another, and it ended up that a ton of those files had the wrong permissions. Now permissions of 755 will generally work for serving an HTML file, but it should probably be served as 644, and since…
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Microsoft Speaks the Truth
I think, perhaps, that truer words have never been spoken by an email application. The Microsoft Outlook Test Message is apparently sent to the Junk E-mail folder. By Outlook itself. You would think that somewhere along the way this would not make it through the Quality Assurance process….
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RPC Over HTTP on SBS 2003
Wow. That's a mouthful. For those who aren't aware, it stands for Remote Procedure Call (RPC) over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) on (Windows) Small Business Server 2003. Essentially, making an Exchange RPC connection via standard HTTP protocols, over a secure (SSL) connection. I had been royally frustrated with…
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Replacing Data in Comments
I noticed today that I had a bunch of markup in my comments. I had been wondering why I had all these <p>, </p> and <br /> tags in there. Turns out I had neglected to set the convert_breaks=”0″ attribute when I redid my page. So it stored…
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Considering the nofollow Attribute
The world is afire this morning with talk of the announcements by Six Apart and the three major search engines (Google, MSN and Yahoo) to support a new HTML attribute named nofollow (in full, rel="nofollow"). By adding this attribute to your link anchors, the search engines will no…
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Using nofollow in Movable Type
Installing the Movable Type "nofollow" plugin from Six Apart will automatically update the built-in tags MTCommentBody, MTCommentAuthorLink and the container tag MTPings. The use of the MTPings container should serve to update any URLs contained within, such as those produced by the MTPingURL tag and surrounding template code….
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Social Security Silliness
We have been married for very nearly two years, and in that time we had never bothered to update my wife's name on her Social Security card. I'm sure this is probably something that we could be fined for doing, but we just never got around to it….
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Wishes Do Come True
I must admit that I haven't really received much from my wish list lately, but that's okay. Some of you have sent monetary donations or even just a note of thanks. I'm not trying to make you feel bad. Though it's probably worth nothing that, if you do,…
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More Firefox Tweaks
Once I got started tweaking Firefox, I really wasn't able to stop. Not that I was looking for anything – I just managed to stumble upon a few things while I was browsing. The first tip allows you to enable an extra tabbed browsing option. Firefox allows you…
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Tweaking Firefox
I've been trying to clean things up today, and a part of that is trying to get rid of a few things about Firefox that annoy me. Maybe "annoy" is too strong of a word. Inconvenience might be a better one. Anyway, I figured I would play and…