We found 0 resources for you...

College, 10 years later

Matthew 0 Comments

dawsonWell its now official, I am back in college for a second time, 10 years after I graduated from Algonquin College’s Computer Systems Technician course, I am back at it.  However this time I am attending Dawson College in Montreal.  The funny part is, the course I am now taking (Preparation for Microsoft Certification) deals with pretty much everything I learned in the Technician’s course, minus of course the hardware aspect of it.  But the labs I did, where we installed XP, Windows NT4/Server 2000, and did network security, are the same, just updated of course, now its Windows 7, windows 8 and Server 2012.…

Continue reading
Personal Rants

GrooveShark, why would I pay to use your Android app when I can use your mobile site for free?

Matthew 0 Comments

I couldn’t believe it.  Yesterday I was setting up my phone to play a few streams to help me sleep.  I use the GrooveShark’s mobile site as there is so much archived on this site its mind-boggling. Now in the mists of setting it up I went into the menu and saw that GrooveShark now has an android app, so I downloaded it thinking it would be easier to browse and look up songs.  However once downloaded, it forced me to create an account (You can use the mobile site without having to sign in) and when I went to stream my usual meditation lists, it tells me it’s for subscribers only at $9 a month.…

Continue reading
Personal

Day 828 on the Island

Matthew 0 Comments

It has been 11 days since my last report. Tension on the island was rising as the locals prepared for a vote that could have changed the face of the country. Thankfully, in a massive turn of events, the previous Premier was ousted, replaced with a lesser foe. Out with the Blue coats, in with the Red.

Has this changed anything? Well, for one, the outsiders like myself can take a deep sigh of relief, although how ever short it may be. We ousted one ideology for another. Is it any better for us? All I know is we solved one problem, a very large problem, but how many more problematic door ways did we open in the process?…

Continue reading

Restricting access to your site with .htaccess

Matthew 0 Comments

Being a server administrator, I am no stranger the “.htaccess” file.  In fact most web administrators/master should know what this files does.  Today’s issue however is not something an administrator would normally come across, in fact, I found NO documentation on this particular solution and had to come up with it on my own, using a few differed resources on the net.

Problem:

At work my department had an internal site which was accessible only from a certain IP address.  So having the following works great:

[code]AuthName "Internal Portal"
AuthUserFile "/var/www/internal/.htpasswd"
require valid-user
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 192.168.1.100
Satisfy Any[/code]

However our firewall settings prevented the functionality I needed (the sites are on our gateway, which does not allow traffic to itself via the outside world, so some WordPress features just wouldn’t work) so I decided to put our site on our regular cPanel server.  …

Continue reading
Personal

Adding a Google Calendar event using Google Forms

Matthew 77 Comments

For a long time now I have been trying to find an easy way for the volunteers under my command to submit vacation requests.  I searched high and low for a PHP scheduler but nothing suited my needs.

I the realized that google had a calendar API which would allow external forms to add events to my calendar, but sadly this didn’t pan out either till I found out that Google also had its own form generator.  But sadly again, doing searched on how to add an event to Google Calendar from the form turned up either useless or empty.

I did manage to find a script that came close to what I wanted.  …

Continue reading