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  • July 2011 Update

    July 2011 Update

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    Netgeeks has been idle for far too long and it’s time to change this. The old community format wasn’t working thus NetGeeks will now aim to bring the latest tech news in the format of a blog. Currently old posts are being imported into WordPress.

  • Refurbishment

    Refurbishment

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    Netgeeks.org is currently undergoing some refurbishment. Old posts will be reposted and hopefully things will be rolling again soon!

  • NinjaVideo.net + Linux

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    DivX streaming from Ninjavideo.net on windows was simple enough with the installation of the DivX web player. On linux, the old mplayerplug-inused to work fine when used with a greasemonkey script. Recently however this was depreciated in debian testing, and replaced with gecko-mediaplayer. With the removal of the old mplayerplug-in for firefox, things stopped working! The videos would…

  • CentOS5 – yum – cElementTree – Python

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    So you updated using yum, and lo and behold yum is no longer working. An attempt to use yum gives you the following: $ yum There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: No module named cElementTree Please install a package which…

  • Project Honey Pot – 1 Billion Spammers Served‏

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    I just received an email from project honey pot, 1 billion spammers have been served. The details are below: On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT), Project Honey Pot achieved a milestone: receiving its 1 billionth spam message. The billionth message was an United States Internal Revenue Service phishing scam sent to an email address that had been…

  • Python receives Linux New Media Award

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    Python has received the Linux New Media Award in the category Best Open Source Programming Language. Knoppix inventor Klaus Knopper handed over the Best Open Source Programming Language prize, this year hotly disputed among the jury. The distinction went to Python. “The thing can do anything,” Knopper expressed. Martin von Löwis of the Python Foundation accepted…

  • [mIRC] Request: Coloured nicks

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    This little snippet will simply colour nicknames when you send a message to a channel that contains nicknames within a line. It wont work if you have other on input events, I.e. acronyms, etc.. you’d have to implement it into that input event. Enjoy!

  • [mIRC] Colour talker.

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    Version 1.02 – Now detects if +c or +S is set on the channel, and will stop using colour if it is. Copy the code below: Usage: /ctalk help – Concise information on using this script You can also use the popups. I can’t remember who requested this script, and I’m sure I passed it…

  • [mIRC] Request: Ban an IP file

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    A quick and short script written to zline IPs in a specified file. The IPs must be listed in the file as one IP per line, e.g.: 1.3.4.5 1.2.3.4 1.4.5.6 5.6.3.2 6.7.8.6 etc… Follow the instructions to use. Let me bring to attention my use of timers over a while loop for budding scripters. The…

  • Popular UK Dating Site mysinglefriend.com Relies on MySQL to Power its Rapid Growth

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    MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database, today announced that mysinglefriend.com has selected the MySQL database server for its fast-growing Web 2.0 site. mysinglefriend.com has rapidly become one of the most popular dating websites in the UK, with over 150,000 current users and a further 10,000 joining each month. At peak…