Once again Windows know exactly how to surprise me. I’ve added entries to the Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts on my remote Windows 2008 Server. The entry was resolved properly as it could be tested from the command line (ping, telnet, etc.) but in IE and FF browsers it didn’t work. DNS flushing, clearing browsers data or restart didn’t [...]

I was trying to find a way to capture the network interface traffic on a remote server, just to see what (or who!) messed up the Web Services based communication. I didn’t have to search too long, because my favorite capturing software, Wireshark, can listen on a named pipe. So, below you can find the [...]

I wondered why the same word has different MD5 checksum if I use the PHP md5(-) method and BASH md5sum command. What I mean is: PHP <?php echo md5(“sol”); ?> The result is: 12313a3d28f802e3a22b07d2e01c6dcf BASH $ echo “sol”|md5sum The result is: 56717d999058f0e053d4b580c9396a92 It seems that echo command is, by default, adding a newline character after [...]

If you are looking for a script which will allow you to publish videos on your website – the Flowplayer would be a very good choice. It’s usage is as simple as it can be – you just pass the link to the file you want to be played and that’s it! The link you’ll [...]

Today I was wondering how to get rid of files in my “temp” directory. This “temp”, in time, gets so huge that it seems that there is more stuff in it than on the rest of the disk :-) Because it’s on the hosted server I was looking for some app that will allow me [...]