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MapQuest adds gas price estimator

Posted in Internet, Unfiled, Web Links  

MapQuest has added a new feature that allows you to estimate how much it’s going to cost to fill up your car for a trip. You enter the miles, how many miles per gallon your car gets, and the cost of gas and the site will show you an estimate of how much it’ll cost you.

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I locked myself out of SSH

Posted in Internet, Unfiled  

A few days ago I tried to change the SSH port of a server I'm working on from 22 to something different since that's supposed to help with security. But the port I changed to was blocked by the firewall which means that after a reboot I had effectively locked myself out.

The server had WHM / cPanel on it so I was still able to manage the server, but needed to get back SSH. Fortunately cPanel has a built in script for this mistake.

Put the following into your browser replacing example.com with the domain name of your server.

CODE:
  1. https://example.com:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=safesshrestart

Presto. SSH will be back on port 22. One thing you'll need to do is go back and fix /etc/ssh/sshd_config so that it's back on port 22 as well. I found out this morning that this fix doesn't actually change the config file.

Smile Timon!

Posted in Photography, Unfiled  

This little meerkat was sitting smiling at all the visitors walking by at the Houston Zoo while the rest of his group was laying around asleep.

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Jumping sea lions and prefocusing

Posted in Photography, Unfiled  

This is from a trip to the Houston Zoo. I had prefocused on the red ball with the far right focal point (top point with the camera rotated) and started shooting as soon as the sea lion broke the water.

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Deligio - Search engine for software

Looking for a new program, maybe a free php editor. A new search engine called Deligio may help you out. Enter what you're looking for an it'll bring up every program in its database that matches.

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Photoshop Tip: Photo Filters

Posted in Unfiled  

After messing with color balance and such in Photoshop, my wife hit upon a menu item that I had missed - 'Photo Filter..." under Image -> Adjustments. Read the rest of this entry »