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		<title>Quick DB dumps with automatic file name generation based on date/time</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingforit.com/2009/12/automatic-file-name-generation</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Databases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Simple DB backup
mysqldump -h [server name] -u [user name] [db name] -p &#62; site-db-`date +%y%m%d-%H%M`.sql
Complete MySQL dump with compression
mysqldump &#8211;all-databases -u admin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` &#62; `hostname -s`-mysql-`date +%y%m%d`.sql
tar zcf `hostname -s`-mysql-`date +%y%m%d`.tgz `hostname -s`-mysql-`date +%y%m%d`.sql
rm `hostname -s`-mysql-`date +%y%m%d`.sql
Complete HTTP sites data with compression
cd /var/www/vhosts/
tar zcf `hostname -s`-sites-`date +%y%m%d`.tgz * &#8211;exclude=*/statistics/* -v &#8211;exclude=ilatina.com/httpdocs/downloads/
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		<title>Quick MySQL random passwords</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingforit.com/2009/09/quick-mysql-random-passwords</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Databases]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you need to quickly generate passwords within MySQL, you could try one of the following methods:


SELECT CONV(FLOOR(RAND() * 99999999999999), 10, 3);


SELECT SUBSTR(MD5(RAND() * 99999999999999), 1, 10);  





    
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		<title>Breadcrumbs on my keyboard&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingforit.com/2009/08/breadcrumbs-on-my-keyboard</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethingforit.com/2009/08/breadcrumbs-on-my-keyboard#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Annoyances]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.somethingforit.com/?p=187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t get this, you haven&#8217;t worked that much time on Web sites&#8230; (feel lucky!)
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		<title>Query string based redirection with mod_rewrite</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingforit.com/2009/07/query-string-based-redirection-with-mod_rewrite</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethingforit.com/2009/07/query-string-based-redirection-with-mod_rewrite#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mod_rewrite]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.somethingforit.com/?p=176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I was playing (more) with mod_rewrite, and came to an interesting requirement: how to redirect a page that receives a specific parameter value to another URL (as in article.php?id=57 to article.php?id=686)?
  
Normally you would use mod_rewrite to make clean URLs or to hide parameters as part of the query string.  Now, the requirement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dummy content generation</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingforit.com/2009/05/dummy-content-generation</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethingforit.com/2009/05/dummy-content-generation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 20:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.somethingforit.com/?p=148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick collection of  sites that will help you generate test content:
General copy
http://www.blindtextgenerator.com/
http://www.lipsum.com/
Names
http://www.fakenamegenerator.com
http://www.generatedata.com/#generator
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		<title>Create bind records which match any query</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingforit.com/2009/03/create-bind-records-which-match-any-query</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethingforit.com/2009/03/create-bind-records-which-match-any-query#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DNS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[centos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[name server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[named]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was configuring a DNS server and noticed that not much reference on how to create records that match any host exists.
What I needed was to setup up a proxy server using a domain that was has its website and email externally hosted, while giving the LAN users the option to enter proxy.example.com as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Maps now covering Bolivia</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingforit.com/2009/02/google-maps-bolivia</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethingforit.com/2009/02/google-maps-bolivia#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was happy to see some days ago that Google now covers Bolivia on Google Maps!  Most of the specific addresses that I looked up returned an inaccurate result which Google presents with a &#8220;Placement on map is approximate&#8221; but this is really a good start.
Some cities include:

Cochabamba

La Paz
Santa Cruz

Cochabamba
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		<title>Encoding Word characters on PHP</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingforit.com/2009/02/encoding-word-characters-on-php</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethingforit.com/2009/02/encoding-word-characters-on-php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Use the following PHP code to encode Microsoft Office Word special formatting characters (like m dash, bullets, typographic quotation marks, etc) as HTML entities.

function get_html_translation_table_CP1252() {
$trans = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
$trans[chr(130)] = '‚';    // Single Low-9 Quotation Mark
$trans[chr(131)] = 'ƒ';    // Latin Small Letter F With Hook
$trans[chr(132)] = '„';    [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change default template for Yahoo! Stores new items</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingforit.com/2008/12/change-default-template-for-yahoo-stores-new-items</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethingforit.com/2008/12/change-default-template-for-yahoo-stores-new-items#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Yahoo! Stores]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so after spending countless hours customizing your Yahoo! Store, you find that every time you create a new item you must change the template used for it.  Wouldn&#8217;t it be really convenient if Yahoo! just applied your customized template for new products? 
To achieve this, on the Store Manager, enable the Advanced Editor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>tigo launches 3G in Bolivia</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingforit.com/2008/08/tigo-launches-3g</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethingforit.com/2008/08/tigo-launches-3g#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Telecom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Around August 25th tigo launched the 3G service in the three major cities of Bolivia.
Although the 3G prices seem fair ($ 15 for 1000 MB/month), the major drawback that I see is that you must have an active phone number to obtain the them.  The prepaid offer seems to be just too high and [...]]]></description>
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