GeekTank

I’ve fixed up the WordPress Plugin Twitter Updater by Ingoal and a number of others (Eric Austin Lee, Victoria Chan). Here’s my changed to the plugin.

Edited by

Jordan Trask (April 17th 2010 – geektank.net (v2.09)

- ZZ.gd broke with 403 forbidden error, fixed with setting different user agent.

- Move menu to “Settings”.

- Added option under configuration to choose ZZ.gd or TinyURL. Added 1 function.

- Re-worked the code for url shortening services, change in one place instead of three. Created a function instead.

which makes it easier to add more services if necessary. Bit.ly support in the future?

Edited byJordan Trask (April 17th 2010 – geektank.net (v2.09)- ZZ.gd broke with 403 forbidden error, fixed with setting different user agent.- Move menu to “Settings”.- Added option under configuration to choose ZZ.gd or TinyURL. Added 1 function.- Re-worked the code for url shortening services, change in one place instead of three. Created a function instead.  which makes it easier to add more services if necessary. Bit.ly support in the future?

You can download the new version, I’ve renumbered the version number and hope to have bit.ly setup as well.

I’ve removed the download and placed all relevant information on the Twitter Updater page.

So, I needed to fix up a Ubuntu install that went wacko. I guess a couple of partitions weren’t deleted and left, and a new partition layout was created beside the empty ones. Let’s just say, some space needed to be reclaimed.

1. I downloaed GParted, and fixed up my partitions so that I deleted the empty useless ones, and increased the root partition.

Once this was completed, I needed to update Grub to change the drive to boot off.

2. So I Mounted /dev/sda5 to /mnt/sda5 and then proceeded to mount /proc and /dev so that I could access the partitions in my chroot enviroment. Then I ran Grub and viola.

mkdir /mnt/sda5
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5
mount -t proc /proc /mnt/sda5/proc
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/sda5/dev
chroot /mnt/sda5
grub

Then within grub type the following.

find /boot/grub/stage1

Which will then return something along the lines of “(hd0,4)”. Then you will need to enter this value in Grub.

root(hd0,4)
setup(hd0)

Done!

I don’t know how many of you remember when you had to open up a .nfo, maybe you haven’t. ;D

But there was one awesome program that would display ASCII Art in windows properly. DMAN NFO Viewer. I’ve put it up for download.

One idea that has come up and is really handy, is creating a general support user so that you can login to machines and have Administrative rights to that machine. We have many groups, and each group has a Desktop Admin group that we add people to who need Administrative access. But we also use it to remove people that seem to abuse it.

Instead of manually adding the groups one by one, you can use dsquery and dsmod. You simple do a query to find the groups that you’ve created. In this example we’re looking for anything that ends in “Desktop Admin”:

dsquery group domainroot -name “*Desktop Admin”

Which returns all of the groups we need. Next step is to take the Global Desktop Admin group and add it to all of these groups. This is simple with dsmod:

dsquery group domainroot -name “*Desktop Admin” | dsmod group -addmbr “CN=Global Desktop Admin,OU=Network Admin,OU=Groups,DC=DOMAIN,DC=LAN”

Voila! Done.

I was doing some web design work for a friend/customer of mine, and he had a Web Hosting account with a company that used cPanel. I’ve used cPanel before, I’ve dabbled in it and fixed problems with it. But never really used it extensively as a client so to speak. Anyways, included in the customers Web Hosting package was 20 Addon Domains. What are “Addon Domains”?

cpanelguide.net/addon.php

Basically it allows you to run mutiple websites off your single account/domain name. Brilliant idea, if it was done properly. When you add an Addon Domain, it creates a folder in your main sites public_html folder, typically its name is that of your domain name. Lets just say that my customer has two domain names, the main one http://bob.com and an additional one http://jill.com

The customer creates http://jill.com as an Addon Domain, all is swell. Until they find out they can access the addon domain at “jill.com” and “bob.com/jill.com”. Why is this bad? Well google will see it as duplicate conent and your site will either never get indexed or have funky SEO results.

How do you fix it? Change the root directory to not be placed inside the public_html folder and viola, no duplicate content. Also make sure to edit the subdomain to forward to the correct URL as well or more duplicate content will exist.