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Hello to the World!

Just figured I would say hi to the world. I haven’t posted in a while and a friend of mine is always saying that they get way more hits than me. Oh well, I guess I will have to be second best ;)

Arts and Crafts and Other Fun Stuff

Go to Molly’s site @ http://www.mollysevertson.com

Sugar Alley

Sugar Alley specializes in marshmallow treats for weddings, baby showers, and birthday parties. We also make special creations to suit large events and parties.”

An example of their products.. Check them out!

Sugar Alley Bear

Goofy Flash Javascript Movie

A friend of mine finds things like this all the time. Watch this silent movie. Very witty!

http://users.telenet.be/kixx/

Installing SSH on Ubuntu 7.04

I am going to start creating videos for little things that I setup on Ubuntu. Maybe it will help someone. If not I wasted time, but I got another post :)
Ubuntu SSH Install

Regular Grammar Help

I found a good document for regular grammars and thought I would post it so I wouldn’t lose it.

Have fun!

http://www.cset.oit.edu/~yangs/CST229/Lecture/6_grammarforms.pdf

Regular Grammar

Finding Large Files Linux

To find large files in linux you can use the find command.

As an example you can find all files that are close to 1GB or over by issuing the command:

find . -type f -size +1000000

The above command will list all files larger than 1GB recursively from the current working directory.

VSFTP Users without access to a shell cannot log in

If you are here you have probably seen this error “530 Login incorrect”

In order to fix this problem you need to ensure that the shell being used for the user in question is in the file /etc/shell.

# /etc/shells: valid login shells
/bin/csh
/bin/sh
/usr/bin/es
/usr/bin/ksh
/bin/ksh
/usr/bin/rc
/usr/bin/tcsh
/bin/tcsh
/usr/bin/esh
/bin/dash
/bin/bash
/bin/rbash
/usr/bin/screen

Any shell that is in this file will allow the user to connect.

Quick and dirty backups for linux using tar

I found this link useful. I have attached the actual backup script located on this page just in case it is gone in the future.

Tar Backup Script
Tar Backup Web Page

Hello World PHP

Just paste this code into a file named HelloWorld.php.

<?php

echo 'Hello World!';

?>

Navigate to the page and you have “hello world.”