I recently needed to extract a TTF version of a Mac font suitcase and after trying a bunch of different methods, I found a tool called Resource Finagler.app. It is available from this page on StackOverflow: Using OS 9 resource fork fonts in CSS Basically, you open the font suitcase, find the sfnt part, and […]
I had an old Fedora 8 server running legacy code that I needed to patch for the Shellshock Bash bug. I proved that bash was vunerable by running this command: env X=”() { :; } ; echo busted” /bin/bash -c “echo stuff” I saw the word “busted” in the output, meaning I needed to upgrade […]
I recently updated a client’s WordPress to 3.9.2. There was a page on that WordPress that served as the PayPal notify_url and it had been working fine up until I updated. The page simply used a shortcode that I created in the functions.php file to process the incoming PayPal parameters. After the update, what I […]
I struggled a long time trying to figure out why my nginz + php-fpm setup was not working. I could tell that the gateway was fine and I was getting a HTTP 200 OK response, but the output was blank and there were no illuminating entries in either the nginx or php-fpm logs. After a […]