Who needs credit cards?
Sat, 2/08/08 – 14:49 | 4 Comments

I don’t! Times are hard. We’re in a credit crunch, spiralling to recession. Apparently.

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Wordpress »

[13 May 2009 | No Comment | Kieran ]

My favourite instant messenger application just got better! There is now a plugin for Facebook.
pidgin-facebookchat is a Facebook chat plugin for Pidgin and other libpurple based messengers. It connects to the new Facebook Chat IM …

Windows »

[13 May 2009 | 1 Comment | Kieran ]

I use Pidgin as my instant messenger application. Mainly because it allows me to chat to clients and sub-contractors across Yahoo, Google, MSN etc all in one application, with the added bonus of not being …

Geekery, Linux »

[4 Apr 2009 | No Comment | Kieran ]

SCP? SCP is a method of securely transferring files between a local and a remote host or between two remote hosts, using the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol.
Sounds confusing?

Geekery, Linux, Windows »

[4 Apr 2009 | No Comment | Kieran ]

Sick of manually mounting a Windows share on Linux with “mount” for it to drop off randomly? Or not really knowing if it is mounted or not?
Then make a permanent mount in fstab.

MySQL, Windows »

[10 Feb 2009 | No Comment | Kieran ]

MySQL has always lacked the sophisticated profiling tools shipped with proprietary databases like SQL Server, etc. MySQL developers have largely depended on EXPLAIN for tuning queries. The SHOW PROFILE patch by Jeremy Cole was introduced …

Photography »

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Photography »

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Photography »

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Apache, Geekery »

[18 Nov 2008 | No Comment | Kieran ]

Assuming you have mod_geoip installed in apache we can block certain countries in 6 lines of code.
I had a client who was experiencing an inhumane amount of spam on their phpBB forums, which are notorious …

MySQL, PHP »

[9 Oct 2008 | 1 Comment | Kieran ]

phpBB stores its IP addresses in a funky format. They’re useless to the human eye!
Convert them to normal IPs with the following code

SELECT CONCAT( CONV( substring( poster_ip, 1, 2 ) , 16, 10 ) , …