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SOPA/PIPA – Join the Fight
Jan 20th
There are two very important pieces of legislature that is being considered by Congress: SOPA & PIPA. These bills are terrible in that they will irrevocably harm Internet freedom. I would go into more detail here, but I think a visual aid is a far better tool. This is a video I directed to help combat these bills. Made for StopTheWall.us via Engine Advocacy and Christian Dawson
Animation: Brian & Chris Pennington w/ DUO Media Productions Writers: Christian Dawson, Thomas Wilson, and myself Sound: DUO Media & Sean Richwine Directed by: Me (Boom Shadow)
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Auto fix for file permissions and ownership
Oct 22nd
#Updates: #01/26/2012 | New feature rich script written by Colin R.
suPHP and FastCGI require files and folders to have a specific set of permissions/ownership from other handlers. Without these permissions set you will see a lot of errors such as: “403 Forbidden”, “500 Internal Server Error”, or simply generic errors that commonly have the word ‘permission’ in them.
It can be very time consuming to track down and check file permissions across a whole server. Luckily, fixing this on a cPanel box can be scripted. This gives us a quick and very easy script you can wget to any cPanel server. More >
The beauty of sequenced sound
Apr 17th
While perusing my friend Rob’s tumbl, I saw this wonderful sound matrix program called “ToneMatrix”. Since then, I have seen this reposted many times on tumblr and Facebook. If for nothing more than archival sake (in case the original URL ever goes down), I’m posting/hosting it here.
Its pretty easy: Simply click on some squares to get the music started. You can hold down the mouse and drag across the screen. Click on a square again to turn it off. Press the ‘space bar’ to clear. You can copy/paste your current pattern by right clicking.
The link to the original page is More >
“The Bet” by Jay Gates
Mar 16th
“The Bet” is the type of humorous film that one could imagine themselves sitting around doing the same thing with their friends. The wit is so wonderfully right up there with “Know how I know you’re gay?” jokes, but with more class.
You can always count on comedian Jay Gates for a great laugh. Jay is an Actor/Comedian/Director/whatever-needs-to-be done kind of guy, hailing from grand ol’ Virginia Beach. Be sure to check out his site: http://www.goldiebrown.com/.
And now, for the funny:
Two office co-workers continue their daily ritual of trying to win “The Bet.” Starring: Danny Forte, Jay Gates, Rachael Lang & Paige More >
How to investigate an FTP hack
Feb 26th
If you have a website, there is a good change that one day you will get hacked. It happens. With so many possible ways to intercept connections & gain entry, you cannot safe guard them all, not permanently anyway. A determined intruder can get in. I myself have even had one of my cPanel accounts compromised. There are a number of methods for severely lowering the chances of an intrusion, but I will be saving that for it’s own article as it will be rather involved. For this article, I am going to show you how you can investigate a More >
