TechBlog - Harold Nixon Technology Tidbits

I wanted to share how I got cron jobs to run for drupal in cpanel.  I had tried:

• GET http://www.example.com/cron.php > /dev/null
• wget -O /dev/null http://www.example.com/cron.php 2>/dev/null

....with no luck :(


What ended up working for me was:

• php /home/USERNAME/public_html/cron.php

This might not be anything useful for you but for newbs like me, I hope it helps

Paint.net is a free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

I've not used it as much as GIMP...but I think I'm going to start REALLY using it.  I know a lot of people like it better than GIMP....I need to break my habits of use and give it a shot.  It seems really powerful for what little time I've put into it.  I thought I'd share this with you in case you've never heard of it and are looking for a photo editing program.

Download it at: http://www.getpaint.net/

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// Make the entries in the zones table.

   $zones = array(

   array(840, 'AL', 'Alabama'),

   array(840, 'AK', 'Alaska'),

// array(840, 'AS', 'American Samoa'),

   array(840, 'AZ', 'Arizona'),

   array(840, 'AR', 'Arkansas'),

// array(840, 'AF', 'Armed Forces Africa'),

// array(840, 'AA', 'Armed Forces Americas'),

// array(840, 'AC', 'Armed Forces Canada'),

// array(840, 'AE', 'Armed Forces Europe'),

// array(840, 'AM', 'Armed Forces Middle East'),

// array(840, 'AP', 'Armed Forces Pacific'),

   array(840, 'CA', 'California'),

   array(840, 'CO', 'Colorado'),

   array(840, 'CT', 'Connecticut'),

......

What is CDBurnerXP?

CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.

It is the burning program I personally use.  It does most everything I need on a day to day basis.  It is easy to use and FREE.  Normally I prefer to use open source software but this program isn't full of funk...it does it's job without the crap.

Download it at: http://cdburnerxp.se/

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product. What is that you say? Well...It is a technology that lets you run a "virtual computer" on your computer. Say you are a Linux newbie, like I was about a 2 years ago (and still am), and you want to play with it without dual booting , installing another hard-drive, or the like. You create a "virtual machine" and run the OS in this program in Windows. Keep in mind all of this is "virtual." It is a program running in your host operating system. You can install Linux or most any other OS on as many virtual machines as you want letting you play and experiment with no harm to your real computer. There are other open source and commercial virtualization softwares out there but I chose to share Virtual Box with you today. If it sounds interesting at all, and you know it does,

download it at: http://www.virtualbox.org/