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Monthly Archives: October 2006

How to compile ImageMagick for PHP by hand

By carson | Published: October 31, 2006
Some time ago I was looking at how to re-size uploaded images in a way that looks good using PHP. I was impressed that when I uploaded a 4M picture to flickr it managed to re-size and compress it into a smaller version that looked correct. I knew they weren't just resizing it so I [...]
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Fedora Core 6 on a Laptop

By carson | Published: October 27, 2006
So after doing my yum upgrade from FC5 to FC6 on a desktop I decided to see if it worked any better than FC5 on my old Dell Inspiron 600m laptop. FC5 wasn't bad on this laptop but two things always bugged me: 1) the ATI driver didn't work out of the box at anything [...]
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Upgrade FC5 to FC6 with yum

By carson | Published: October 25, 2006
Now that Fedora Core 6 is available it is time to upgrade those old crusty FC5 installs. To upgrade from FC5 you can follow these steps: You may be able to skip this step but I did a yum update on FC5 first to make sure everything there was up to date and worked before moving [...]
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DNS Black List Checker

By carson | Published: October 15, 2006
At work we have been using DNS Black Lists for a long time to deny spam coming into our email systems. There are a number of places you can check to see if you are on one of these lists but I figured I would write my own web 2.0 version. So here it is [...]
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