It would repeat this message for all my varchar columns, and of course wouldn’t insert any data, I googled every combination of everything I could think of and the closest I came to was this: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-18278 Now I don’t want to talk bad about the Asterisk/Digium guys but from my experience the guys working on the ODBC part of Asterisk can kind of be short with the users. Take this blob of text for example:

; On Wednesday 10 September 2008 21:11:16 Tilghman Lesher wrote:
;
; I thought that the sample cdr_adaptive_odbc.conf was rather clear, but
; apparently not.

I mean come on guys what value does this sentence bring to anything.

Anyways here is how I fixed it.

show table status

I noticed that the Collation was utf8_general_ci I had a feeling that this was wrong so I ran:

alter table cdr CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET latin1;

and bingo, after a module reload I was storing all the cdr data in MySQL

I Hope this saves people some time.

Keep on trucking and have fun!

<?php $ac = 0; ?>

Then in your <tr> tag it is as simple as adding this code:

<tr bgcolor="<?php echo ($ac++%2==0)?"#EBEBEB":"#FFFFFF"; ?>">

Another way you could do it is to declare a class:

<tr class="<?php echo ($ac++%2==0)?"odd":"even"; ?>">

Invite Code Link:
http://new.digg.com/login/bd4e2a073cfea23691b29eb6a85be8a07 (You have to copy and paste it. Don’t want any bots clicking the link and wasting it!)

If you you get an account via my link above leave a comment to let me know!

Well with the release of Internet Explorer 8 our sites that use ShadowBox no longer worked. Oh, they worked in IE6, IE7, FireFox, Chrome, Safari & Opera, but not in IE8 (a.k.a. The Broken Browser!).

So after some Googling around I found this tip:

1. Go to your path where skin.css is on your server: */skin/classic/
2. Open skin.css and add the following lines:

#shadowbox_title {
  border: 0px solid;
}
 
#shadowbox_info {
  border: 0px solid;
}

So there you have it! ShadowBox should work in IE8 for you now!

Public/Private encryption is not a new thing, did you know you can use my favorite swiss army knife to send secret messages to your friends…. Scratch that, I don’t have any friends… Perl Makes this easy with a little module calls Crypt::RSA, yes RSA is under fire for security blah blah, I don’t care, it’s still secure, because Mr. S’s (yes it’s a dudes name) I can’t pronounce nor spell, I know it will be fairly decent, I am almost about sure Mr. S should be Dr. S, but that just sounds evil, so without further ado, public/private key encryption with perl.

Two people in this Article Tony and John, John wants all correspondence encrypted Tony Encrypts.

I am on my new Mac now, so your mileage may very….

sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Crypt::RSA

it asks you about a ton of dependencies, don’t do what your high school guidance counselor told you and just say yes.

Create something to make the keys

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Crypt::RSA;
$rsa = new Crypt::RSA;
if ($ARGV[0] eq "--makekeys") {
	($public, $private) = $rsa->keygen( 
				Size => 2048,
				Filename => "keylock",
				);
	exit;
}

The start of out program generate our rsa key, keylock.private (and keep this private, no touchy no sendy) and keylock.private, send this to everyone

ok send the public key to tony, so he can send us a message…. Tony should create the message now

if ($ARGV[0] eq "--createmessage") {
	$key = $ARGV[1];
	$message = $ARGV[2];
 
	#open the key
	$akey = new Crypt::RSA::Key::Public (	Filename => "$key");
	my $output = $rsa->encrypt(Message => $message,Key=> $akey)|| die $rsa->errstr();
	open ENC, ">message" or die $!;
	binmode ENC;
	print ENC $output;
	exit;
}

One thing that was a gotcha for me was writing the file, I forgot to tell perl to write it binary, since the encryption is all binary, we must write it so. We now have a file called “message” if you try to edit the file, it’s all gobble gook. Tony can now send you this message, and only you can read it, but how?

if ($ARGV[0] eq "--readmessage") {
	$key = $ARGV[1];
	$message = $ARGV[2];
 
	open FILE, "$message" or die $!; 
	binmode FILE;
	my ($buf, $data, $n);
	while (($n = read FILE, $data, 4) != 0) {
		$buf .= $data;
	} 
	close(FILE); 
	$akey = new Crypt::RSA::Key::Private->read(Filename => "$key");
	my $output = $rsa->decrypt(Cyphertext => "$buf",Key => $akey)|| die $rsa->errstr();
	print $output ."\n";
 
	exit;
}

So now we read the file “message” in using our private key, since Tony encrypted the message with our public key, we can now read it with the private key…. So how does this work?

John-Hasss-Mac-Pro:~ john$ ./keylock.pl --makekeys
John-Hasss-Mac-Pro:~ john$ ./keylock.pl --createmessage keylock.public "007 would be so jealous"
John-Hasss-Mac-Pro:~ john$ cat message 
?????u?????מ?n???-@?l?Q??)??~}3?"h2??=,??3??݁/m?s?[?M)?F?}?|ߩJ????k;?7??i???D?\w;?U??ʬ??y7dz??&?]pXv?-???E@"X?E?HH0?(S?"?`?,?R??7???ϳ
  ??Ցh???촇??K??Rs??uxs;??r^΀?G?????5??W??Y???4Y??_~?(YͷӍr\űeĥr??John-Hasss-Mac-Pro:~ john$ 
John-Hasss-Mac-Pro:~ john$ 
John-Hasss-Mac-Pro:~ john$ ./keylock.pl --readmessage keylock.private message
007 would be so jealous
John-Hasss-Mac-Pro:~ john$

Welcome to the magic of public private key encryption!

Have fun!

It has some of the common Postfix commands, but what interested me was the Perl script to delete mailqs that matched regular expressions.

postfix-delete.pl script

The following script deletes all mail from the mailq which matches the regular expression specified as the first argument.

(Credit: Vivek Gite of cyberciti.biz. His credit: Credit: ??? – I found it on old good newsgroup)

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
$REGEXP = shift || die "no email-adress given (regexp-style, e.g. bl.*\@yahoo.com)!";
 
@data = qx;
for (@data) {
  if (/^(\w+)(\*|\!)?\s/) {
     $queue_id = $1;
  }
  if($queue_id) {
    if (/$REGEXP/i) {
      $Q{$queue_id} = 1;
      $queue_id = "";
    }
  }
}
 
#open(POSTSUPER,"|cat") || die "couldn't open postsuper" ;
open(POSTSUPER,"|postsuper -d -") || die "couldn't open postsuper" ;
 
foreach (keys %Q) {
  print POSTSUPER "$_\n";
};
close(POSTSUPER);

For example, delete all queued messages from or to the domain called double-bounce@domain.com, enter:

./postfix-delete.pl double-bounce@domain.com

Delete all queued messages that contain the word “xyz” in the e-mail address:

./postfix-delete.pl xyz

For more information about this script make sure and checkout http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-postfix-flush-mail-queue.html

I utilized the Google Maps API for this project.

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Here is a quick step-by-step guide to doing that. However, keep in mind that sound quality is a thing of opinion and results may very!

1. Click the phone icon
2. Dial ##7764726
3. Click the Green Phone Icon or Call Button
4. You will then be asked for a SPC password
5. Enter 000000  (That is 6 Zeros)
6. Then click the Verify button
7. You will then see the programming Menu
8. Select option 04 or whatever option is titled “Vocode”
9. By default the option “EVRC” should be selected
10. To “improve” call quality select “EVRC-B” and click Apply
11. Then click the back button on the phone
12. Your phone will then reboot
13. When it comes back up you are done!

So now you can be the judge as to whether or not your call quality is better.

Be advised that this will cause your battery to drain faster… yes, even faster than it already does!

<?php
$startYear=2010; //Enter the starting year of the copyright.
if($startYear < date("Y")){
	echo $startYear."-".date("Y");
}else{
	echo $startYear;
}
?>

And for the function lovers

<?php
function updateCopyright($startYear){
	if($startYear < date("Y")){
		echo $startYear."-".date("Y");
	}else{
		echo $startYear;
	}
}
?>
//Usage: Copyright &copy; <?php echo updateCopyright(2010); ?> Company Name

There ya go!

Isn’t making your life easier fun!? I sure think so!