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  • C Language – Beginners info

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    data types bool, a Boolean expression of either true or false char, a single character like a or 2 double, a floating-point value with more digits than a float float, a floating-point value, or real number with a decimal value int, integers up to a certain size, or number of bits long, integers with more…

  • Malware & P%$n

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    Keeping Malware and Adult content away from your kids can be a near impossible task. You either need to sit with your kids while they’re online or just accept that they will come across things you might not want them to see, & things that will most certainly infect your device. There isn’t a lot…

  • STEM: Programming for Kids – Step 1 User Input

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    So the project we are starting requires some understanding of the code blocks before we explode little minds into cramming them together to make something as cool as a translator, so let’s start at the beginning – User Input. GOAL: Ask a user to enter their name and have your sprite say “Hello, name!” Required:…

  • STEM : Programming for Kids!

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    Programming is a great way to teach kids about logical thought processes and also a super fun way to engage with computers that doesn’t involve mindless zombie killings. In this post I want to take a look at Scratch – a programming tool for kids, by MIT. It’s great. You’ll love it. Scratch takes complex…

  • migrating webmail to gmail

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    requirements imapcopy, stunnel enable imap for the account use to connect via ssl to imap.gmail.com stunnel -c -f -d 1143 -r imap.foo.tld:993 -P ” set config server to 127.0.0.1 with port 1143 SourceServer 127.0.0.1SourcePort 1143 DestServer 127.0.0.1DestPort 1144

  • Mounting AWS Buckets

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    added here for posterity. Original post by Nam Tran sudo apt-get install build-essential git libfuse-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2-dev mime-support automake libtool sudo apt-get install pkg-config libssl-dev git clone https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse cd s3fs-fuse/ ./autogen.sh ./configure –prefix=/usr –with-openssl make sudo make install Create .passwd-s3fs file at ~/.passwd-s3fs (in root user’s directory) add user and pass in this format AWS…

  • Combine pdfs?

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    Easiest way to combine pdfs is using pdftoolkit (pdftk) pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf cat output filename.pdf

  • Prevent cPanel accounts from sending mail.

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    When a cPanel account is suspended it simply prevents access via that accounts login details and restricts the mysql user associated with it. It does not however prevent existing scripts from using the server to send mail or spam and this is generally what happens when people hack your WordPress or Joomla or Drupal sites.…

  • How do I find out what mail is being sent by my server or user accounts?

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  • Youtube Vids – get them the easy way.

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    So my housemate is currently going insane, doing her prac as a highschool teacher. At 11pm she informed me she needed some youtube vids for show and tell. VLC failed me (you can save/convert network streams) so I pulled out the laptop and with a sudo apt-get install youtube-dl, I was halfway there. youtube-dl youtube-video-link…