Quickies Tip: Set your Glype tmp, logs and cache folders outside the web root. No, chmod'ing to 700 won't work, lol. WTF: Uneven Google! Useful: Fairly decent and promising project: proxycoder.com Useful:...

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Triond 1,000 challenge? Yeah, right... image via Over the last few months I kept bumping into a "challenge" on Triond: people are either trying to get 1,000 articles by the end of 2010 or make $1,000 in any given 30 days (there are at...

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EzineArticles scraper Piece of code that queries EZA for a given string and grabs an article at random from the first results page. Again, this is slow as fuck and shouldn't be used for production sites. [php]<?php ini_set('error_reporting',...

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Basic scraper with PHP and DOM Who says you need UBot to run basic scraping tasks? Here's a trivial script that scrapes centurian.org. It's unoptimized (i.e. slow as fuck) but it still does a great job. [php] <?php // DOMDocument()s...

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Resuming uploads with ProFTPD ProFTPD doesn't allow resuming of uploads out of the box. Here's a quick hack around it: edit the config file (usually /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf, but can depend on your distro) and add AllowOverwrite...

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