HM2K

If you’re a geek like me or you’ve just  seen Iron Man 2 you’ll probably like the idea of having a custom motd display something cool when you login to your shell or terminal server.

Sure, you can use figlet to create a text banner, but how cool would it be if you could display your own logo instead. Right?

Can an image be converted into ASCII art?

Challenge accepted.

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Back in 2007 I wrote about email addresses on your website and how to avoid putting your email address in plain text.

A guy I know, named “csarven” also wrote about methods to hide email addresses from page source providing over 16 concepts for hiding your email address.

This was useful, but not practical, so I decided to write a PHP class…

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Recently, like many of you, I’ve had some trouble getting websites listed on the AOL owned “Open Directory Project” known as Dmoz.

So, looking back at a post written by Oatmeal which explains how to get 20 .gov links in 20 minutes I wondered if the same was possible for Dmoz…

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I was after a php function that would get the favicon for a supplied domain, I did attempt to write my own but it proved more complex than I had first anticipated. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve recently had some fun installing Trac project management software on CentOS5.

After finally getting it successfully installed and setup I decided to have a play around with a TCL script for eggdrop.

This eggdrop script will allow you to return ticket information from Trac to an IRC channel.
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