Updating Exchange Rates Automatically in SAP Business One
This is a personal itch I had to scratch, instead waiting for our accountant to update the exchange rates in SBO to allow us enter new orders, I wrote a small PowerShell script to...
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How to Disable Copy Paste “Protection” on Websites Forms
This is a quick tip which I found useful so I mostly documenting it here for my personal use (and in case some else will find it useful). The Easy Way – Use Firefox...
XDEBUG session timeout with “Service Unavailable” message
Some Background My application runs on a CentOS machine with Apache 2.4 and PHP 5.6 (from Remi’s repo), and I’m using PHP-FPM (via Apache proxy option) to handle the php files (not the Apache...
Matching non ASCII characters in NGiNX location
If you need to match a non ASCII string with NGiNX, and don’t want to use the encoded URL, you can use this trick, location ~* (*UTF8)^/אודות$ { return 301 “https://blog.rabin.io/about-me”; } Resources http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28055909/does-nginx-support-raw-unicode-in-paths...
Visualize real-time data streams with Gnuplot
Some times when I need to troubleshoot a problem, adding some visualization to the process can help a lot, especially if one need to correlate between 2 (or more) metrics in the data. But...
Run Command Before Starting SSH Connection
This a quick hack I found while I was looking to run a knock script before connecting to servers which I have the SSH service protected with a knock sequence. In my setup I...
[PHP] Validate Email Address Format
A quick snippet I use to validate email address format. <?php if (empty($argv[1])) { echo ‘usage: ‘ . $argv[0] . ‘ [email protected]’ . PHP_EOL; exit (1); } array_shift($argv); foreach ($argv as $key => $email)...
Building CinelerraCV for Fedora 22 under Docker
The Dockerfile #FROM 195a4b79eb1c #Version 0.4 FROM Fedora-Docker-Base-22-20150521.x86_64 MAINTAINER [email protected] RUN dnf update -y && dnf install -y mock rpmdevtools tmux htop && dnf clean all RUN [“dnf”, “install”, “-y”, “http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-22.noarch.rpm”, “http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-22.noarch.rpm”] RUN [“/usr/sbin/useradd”,...
[NetworkManager] Using dispatcher.d to run scripts based on network connectivity
This post is based on my personal need to mount/umount some network shares automatically when I’m switching between networks (e.g Homer/Office). Later on I was looking to make it more modular and came out...
Speed up a MySQL restore from a dump file
This is a small snippet I found to speed up importing MySQL dumps, it’s is almost as fast as coping the DB files directly. Pre INSERT Put the commands at the top of the...
