Christian Biggins

Design, Technology, SEO, General Ramblings. Something for everybody.

Using php to run system commands

Heres a great write up for running system commands through php. My problem was establishing an sftp connection and transferring files over it, but this has fixed my problem good and proper.http://www.toppa.com/technobabble/using-phps-program-execution-functions-for-sftp#comment-38576

A Simple Guide to Aussie Life

The bigger the hat, the smaller the farm.
The shorter the nickname, the more they like you.
Whether it’s the opening of Parliament, or the launch of a new art gallery, there is no Australian event that cannot be improved by a sausage sizzle.
If the guy next to you is drinking and swearing like a wharfie he’s [...]

Nestle

Nestle continues to be a multinational giant, despite the fact that it is an incredibly unethical corporation with no moral principals on its quest to make more money. This is a good case study I was just reading on Nestles Social Responsibility (or Irresponsibility).I said click, sucka.

Earth Hour 2008

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Theres a whole bunch of stuff that doesn’t work well under 64bit linux. If you add to that using linux on a notebook, well you get a head of functionality that takes a poop load of work to make happen.My latest problem was getting the Adobe Flex Builder 2 Alpha for linux to work on [...]

CSS improvements in Firefox 3 – MDC

While reading over the Mozilla Developer Centre tonight I noticed some nice CSS changes for Firefox 3.
To think that maybe one day we can develop for all browers without duplicating code or making special requirements. Ahhh…
Anyway… back to reality.
CSS improvements in Firefox 3 – MDC

This bloke is very funnny. His name is Rhod Gilbert.

So while browsing the Firefox addons site tonight for a php function search (seperate from the normal search) I looked through the ‘recommended addons’ or whatever it is called and found ‘zotero’.Zotero is basically a research manager. You can add research to it for uni and have it keep track of notes and all sorts [...]

Wasting time.

On a recent time-wasting expedition from my Uni Assignment, I stumbled across a very nice list of commonly used applications and their open source equivalents.
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Its well worth a look. Especially, if like me, you hate Microsoft, Globalisation and Corporationism.