Sun Java 6 on Ubuntu Jaunty
Yes I know I am supposed to be upgrading to Karmic; I already downloaded the ISO images but I don't have the time this week or next. Since I am on a liberal local cap, I thought I might as well just install all the Java 6 packages except the documentation, as that needs to be handled separately. sudo aptitude install sun-java6-? sun-java6-doc: Then you have to make sure you have the JAVA_HOME environment variable set up correctly: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.16 (Just check that dir, it might be a bit different on your system.)

Zoopy PHP CLI Upload
I recently had quite a number of pictures I wanted to upload to Zoopy and was looking for an easier way to upload an entire directly of images straight from the command line. I ended up writing the following PHP script and making use of their RESTful API which ended up working fairly nicely. #!/usr/bin/php <?php $username = 'charlvn'; $password = 'test123'; if (!isset($_SERVER['argv'][1])) { echo "Please enter a title.\n"; exit(1); } $dir = new DirectoryIterator(getcwd()); $userpwd = sprintf('%s:%s', rawurlencode($username), rawurlencode($pas

Modern Spam
Some of the earlier spam campaigns were pretty laughable. Mail claiming to be coming from your bank but the English is so bad it's somehow very unlikely. Today I found the above piece of spam in my spam directory (Gmail was smart enough to detect it, but then again, no surprise there). They are claiming to come from Facebook (probably yet another phishing scam). At least, the mail kind-of looks official. It's almost believable, especially to a noob. Strange address they sent it to, though. But login system bei

Afrihost Capping #fail
About a month back, Afrihost ran a special on their ADSL accounts. The deal looked pretty attractive

Muti Facebook Source Code
A couple of weeks ago we announced the Muti Web Hook Support and about a week ago we launched the Muti Facebook Page. As mentioned, the Facebook page runs separately on PHP and actually makes use of the Web Hook system to get notified of new posts. Here is an example of the code that we are currently using to make this work. This will accept the data in the HTTP POST received from the web hook distribution hub and immediately post a relevant message to the Facebook page. <?php // Load the Facebook API library. require_onc