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Sifr is dead, long live Cufon

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admin

I used to have a utility that converted Truetype fonts into Sifr fonts. Unfortunately after a server move I lost the code. I’m reluctant to re-build it because there are much better tools out there now.

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Ruby SSH Example With Error Handling

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admin

The following ruby snippet takes an array of commands as a parameter then runs all those commands via SSH.

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Setup Ruby on Rails, Apache, MySQL, Passenger and more on a bare Debian install

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admin

This is what I use to setup up a server, hope it helps someone.
Setup IPTables
Your server will initially have all ports blocked so you need to edit /etc/iptables and add
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp –dport 80 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp –dport 443 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp –dport 10000 [...]

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Integrating Gravatars into PunBB forums

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Ian Purton

PunBB already has it’s own Avatar system however I wanted to use the Gravatar site which is a central place to store avatar images.

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Viewing iPod H.264 videos on a Pocket PC with TCPMP

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ian.purton

You can use the Core Media Player TCPMP version 7.1 and above to view iPod videos on your Pocket PC or Windows Mobile device. You will also need the ffmpeg plugin and to hear the audio you will need to download and install AAC decoders from here

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