Converting your AVI files to any DivX / Xvid format

May 1st, 2011 4 comments

Greetings everyone,

I’ve been recently searching on a way to convert a RIFF86 AVI file into a decent DivX / Xvid format on my MacBook, and I though it would be cool to share my technic for all of you who wants an easy and free way to convert your movie into DivX or Xvid format.

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Setting up exim with AUTH LOGIN, AUTH PLAIN and AUTH CRAM-MD5 with Debian

November 23rd, 2010 3 comments

Hello everyone,

I faced recently lots of trouble while setting up a Debian box with exim.

Obviously, the documentation was outdated or incomplete on some aspect, and I lost so many time searching “WTF my exim4 is not making AUTH PLAIN, AUTH LOGIN and/or AUTH CRAM-MD5″ that I though it would be good to share the solution with you guys.

I know some of you would say “Damn dude, this is insecure to do it!” and you are right (except perhaps for CRAM-MD5 which add little more complexity than LOGIN), but anyway, here is a 1st shot on “how to make it work simple” before you finally set SSL on it.

Also, some people might use port with authentication, because their lossy client / provider don’t support SSL. (This is probably the case with some mobile phone… I believe)

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Checking for rootkit using rkhunter

November 18th, 2010 No comments

It’s pretty common nowadays to have linux server and linux boxes at home, or at work, for hosting website and even more.

It’s also true that linux offer a high level of security, because most of the source codes are open (means everyone have access to it) but also because most linux distro check and provide solution for all kind of security flaws in their product.

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What’s new with HTML 5

October 6th, 2010 2 comments

Hello everyone,

Today, I’ll talk a bit about HTML5, and what are the main tags that have changed.

Ready for the next ?

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How to install open-source software on a Mac

September 26th, 2010 No comments

Hello everyone,

Today, I’ll discuss quickly about “how to install open-source software on a mac”.

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CakePHP vs CodeIgniter Benchmark Performance

August 27th, 2010 7 comments

Greeting everyone,

I’ll post today anotherĀ  benchmark result which compare CakePHP versus CodeIgniter, 2 popular php framework that help coder building their site quickly.

I’m not an expert with PHP framework, since there are so many and they evolute everyday, so I’m not posting here to present another vague comparison on “which framework is the best” and “why to choose one instead of another”…

On this post, I only want to display server’s performance comparison between cake and CI.

The test will create a variable “hello world” in the controller, and then display it in the view (pretty simple), no cache (except APC opcode), blank page with variable to be displayed.

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Using htaccess to redirect domain to www

August 26th, 2010 No comments

Welcome back!!

Today, I’ll show you an easy rule to redirect domain.com to www.domain.com to help you prevent your site from duplicate content. I know it has been said thousand of time on other site about it, but I still meet persons/companies that doesn’t properly configure their address…

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Choosing the best redirect for your SEO

August 7th, 2010 12 comments

Greetings everyone !!!

Today I’ll talk a bit about page web redirection, also called redirect and how to use them properly to optimize your SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

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Using iptables to reject w00tw00t.at.ISC.SANS.DFind scanners

June 10th, 2010 3 comments

Hello people,

I found recently in my apache log thousands of “w00tw00t.at.ISC.SANS.DFind” requests coming from all parts of the world.

I’ve been searching for solutions to remove their hits because they consume resources on my servers and they doesn’t help when computing my visitors stats…

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Using Firefox to customize your website

June 9th, 2010 No comments

Greeting all,

Today I’ll talk about Firefox and various plug in you can install to customize or debug your website

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Categories: CSS, Javascript, Web Tags: , ,