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Dan Gibas,
HYGEN Web Design
A 26 year old web monkey living in Malaysia.
The perfect system for web designers is based on Linux. Every program you need and use is free or charge and 99% of them are open source. You can have an advanced and fully functional system up and ready to start building websites in less than two hours. And no, you wont find Adobe, Macromedia, Microsoft or PhotoShop here, but guess what? You don’t need all that crap anyway!
Many automated web bots (bad ones that spam up blogs) may directly be able to access the Wordpress file wp-comments-post.php by sending GET or POST data to it. If you see hits come up in your log files for the file wp-comments-post.php then you can be 100% sure that it is spam bots. There are two tips I just came up to help stamp out this issue.
When using the strpos() function in PHP5 and possibly other versions you should expect some strange behaviour. For some reason the function can’t return true but can only return “not false”!
This might confuse you for a while. Check out this example code to get your head around it…
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For anyone working with Google maps or similar at some point of time you will ask the question - “hang on a moment, where can I actually get the latitude and longitude in order to work with Google maps?”. Well there are of course three ways. If your mapping is simple then you can just find the lattitude and longitude and enter it manually into your code. On the other hand for more complex mapping applications you could keep your own database of place names and latitudes and longitudes etc to look up dynamically.
I just found this site while browsing some photos. If you are shopping for reptiles, or even spiders and other exotic pets then these guys have the best collection of Malaysian exotics I have ever seen!
Check the site out here -
http://www.reptilesmalaysia.com
I’m thinking about ordering a few snakes from them to try and breed at home!
Phuket, Thailand:
A quick walk to the local shop suddenly became an adventure when I spotted an Ornate Paradise Tree Snake, sometimes called a Golden Tree Snake, Ornate Flying Snake or Golden Flying Snake.
Some might say they are one of the most beautiful snakes in the world with amazing colours and amazing science. These little snakes can “fly” from the trees - although actually they just compress their bodies and then glide to the ground to escape any dangers.
Having just bought a new HP laptop (mini-note 2133) with SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 (SLED 10) pre-loaded I was alarmed to find that Novell is behaving like Microsoft and requires product registration in order to get software updates and install more software on the system. This is mean and cruel and sucks and things should not be done this way, but hay… all of the drivers only work under SLED so we are stuck with it and can’t simply install Kubuntu / Ubuntu etc on the system.
Here is how to register if you have just bought one of these little babies…
(Prepare your HP license number first)
A jittery short video from a while back of a Thai army APC in Yala…
Watch out Malaysians. It’s not enough that the Malaysian police setup blocks and pull over cars to ask for coffee money now things are getting even worse. Here is a true story that took place just yesterday near Jalan Kucing / Jalan Duta in KL…
Watch out! There is another scam in progress. This time Maybank is being abused in a phishing attempt. Scammers are targeting Maybank2u online customers. Here is a sample email that you could see in your inbox…
