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If you are creating aliases that contain a "." in qmail via the command line you need to make sure to replace any "."s with ":"s.

Otherwise, qmail will simply deliver the mail to the equivalent of /dev/null.

Such that the alias ryan.chapin@nbinteractive.com’s alias would be:
.qmail-ryan:chapin→ Continue reading “Creating Aliases with a “.” in them under qmail”

This tutorial demonstrates how to load and manipulate (resize in this example, but once you have access to the API you can do a whole lot of other things) FlashPaper 2.0 SWF files with ActionScript 2.0.

You will need:

• Flash MX 2004 or Flash 8
• FlashPaper 2.0

Click here to see the example in action.
Click on the attachment to download sample files.
In this example, we will simply load a FlashPaper 2.0 document and scale it to fit the → Continue reading “Loading and Manipulating FlashPaper 2.0 SWFs into Flash”

Following is a quick tutorial on how to set-up and use the set of captioned FLVPlayback skins created by Michael Jordan.

This tutorial covers using the skins with ActionScript 2.0 cuepoints.

First off, download the set of skins.  I’ve included them with this blog entry (because Adobe is notorious for moving and deleting pages), but there may be a newer version out there so check out this page, and/or Michael’s page.

Once you’ve downloaded and installed the skins → Continue reading “Using Michael Jordan’s Open Source Captioned Skins for the FLVPlayback Component in AS 2.0”

I recently had a client who was hosting a site on IIS under Windows XP Pro using .NET and ASP.

As a result, I needed to set up an appropriate development environment to test and debug the site before handing it over.

I opted for setting up VMware install that was running the necessary OS and software.

Following is a quick how-to on setting it all up.

Installing IIS 5.1 and .NET 2.0 on Windows XP Pro:

1. Go to Add/Remove

→ Continue reading “Setting Up an IIS Webserver under Windows XP Pro”

Windows tends to store a ton of temporary files that, over time, tend to fill up your hard drive.

There
are a number of places to look for these files and a couple of things
you can do to periodically purge your system of files you don’t need.

First, right-click on your C drive and select "Properties".  Then click on the "Disk Cleanup" button on the main tab.

You can also look in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp

And look for → Continue reading “Deleting the Cruft in Windows 2000”

For all of you out there who use vi on a regular basis . . . I recently needed to do a search and replace on a large document and needed to key off of the new line characters in the document.

After a bit of searching here’s what I found:

If you need to do something like, search for all new lines and add the new line plus "foo" do the following:

:1,%s/\n/^Mfoo/g

You get the ^M character by → Continue reading “Search and Replace for a New Line Character in VI”