Archive for January, 2011

how to verify no accounts have empty passwords?

Type the following command # awk -F: ‘($2 == “”) {print}’ /etc/shadow

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remove all .DS_Store files in a directory

The following command will remove all .DS_Store files in a directory where it is executed as well as that particular directory’s subdirectories: find . -name ‘*.DS_Store’ -type f -delete Why would you want to remove .DS_Store files? The .DS_Store files store Finder-specific preferences concerning the display of each of your folders. Removing these files is [...]

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The Wilderness Downtown HTML5 Video

The Wilderness Downtown is an experimental interactive film using Google Chrome created by Chris Milk in collaboration with Arcade Fire and Google. It was built using HTML5, Google Maps, an integrated drawing tool and it uses multiple browser windows. Features: HTML5 native video and audio Canvas-animated birds Interactive SVG fonts Photo panoramas from Google Maps [...]

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OSX pmset Power Management Command Line Tool

NAME pmset — manipulate power management settings SYNOPSIS pmset [-a | -b | -c | -u] [displaysleep minutes] [disksleep minutes] [sleep minutes] [womp 1/_] [ring 1/_] [autorestart 1/_] [powerbutton 1/_] [lidwake 1/_] [acwake 1/_] [lessbright 1/_] [halfdim 1/_] [sms 1/_] [boot] pmset -u [haltlevel percent] [haltafter minutes] [haltremain minutes] pmset -g [custom | live | [...]

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OSX Sudden Motion Sensor

Replaced internal HD with Western Digital Scorpio 1TB SATA 8MB Cache 2.5 inch Blue Internal Hard Drive Not sure if it’s benificial to disable the OSX Sudden Motion Sensor as I have read that the Scorpio 1TB HD has Motion Sensor built in. Sudden Motion Sensor is  designed to help prevent disk issues if the computer [...]

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Adding Zend Frame Work to Plesk vhost.conf

Replace bizante.com with the domain you are configuring. This article requires knowledge of linux text editor from terminal command line. I used this procedure to get started with the Google Data PHP Client Library which is included as part of the ZEND FRAMEWORK From a terminal with SU / root type the following: cd /usr/local/src [...]

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How do I redirect my site using a .htaccess file?

# This allows you to redirect your entire website to any other domain Redirect 301 / http://bizante.com/

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