Author Archives: ronaldpringadi

Adding color to your tail

Posted on December 22, 2011 by ronaldpringadi

Tail is a very useful tool for monitoring an error stream. Sometimes the output from tail can have too much information, and its black-and-white monotone output can be hard to follow with the eyes. The basic: a Linux terminal has … Continue reading →

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JSON Jumpstart

Posted on November 7, 2011 by ronaldpringadi

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Vodafone Group, AT&T, and Verizon are The Biggest Yielding Companies In November 2011

Posted on November 2, 2011 by ronaldpringadi

Vodafone Group, the telecom giant known for its land line and wireless services around the U.S and U.K, together with two other U.S based telecom giants AT&T and Verizon are one of the best yielding companies in Nov 2011. As … Continue reading →

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Biggest Companies in the USA (Top 30)

Posted on October 15, 2011 by ronaldpringadi

If you ever get interested with the top 30 biggest companies in the USA you can visit this link: http://www.greenandredmarket.com/menu/biggestcompanies.htm I’m really surprised that Apple‘s Market Capitalization is almost twice bigger than Microsoft

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An nmap primer: scanning ports, fingerprinting hosts, and staying legal

Posted on October 6, 2011 by ronaldpringadi

If you just want a quick look at what’s listening on a Linux machine, the one-liner is: 1nmap -sS -O 127.0.0.1 That’s an nmap SYN scan with OS detection against your own loopback interface. If you’ve never used nmap before, … Continue reading →

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Find Files in Linux by Name

Posted on September 13, 2011 by ronaldpringadi

To find files in Linux with a certain name portion or pattern we can issue a locate command. If locate is unable to find a matching file, then you might need to update your file index database. 12# locate journal-2011-07 … Continue reading →

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Check For Loaded PHP Extensions

Posted on August 30, 2011 by ronaldpringadi

Sometimes you want to make sure a certain PHP extension is loaded or not. These extensions can be curl, xmlrpc, or ldap. After all, when you move your application from one server to another the configuration is not necessarily the … Continue reading →

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Extending an Existing Javascript Function

Posted on August 30, 2011 by ronaldpringadi

This is how you extend an existing javascript function. Assuming that you want to preserve the existing function and the “added algorithm” is somewhat only needed to be executed based on a certain environment only. 123456789101112function abc(){   alert(’abc is … Continue reading →

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Map Network Drive using DOS command

Posted on August 30, 2011 by ronaldpringadi

Create a batch file named mapdrive.bat and put the following inside it: 1234REM Map network drives net use j: \\server1\john_music net use p: \\server2\pdfs pause Explanation: Line 1 is a comment. Line 2 (and similarly line 3) maps the network … Continue reading →

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Super Powerful Debugging Function in Javascript

Posted on August 29, 2011 by ronaldpringadi

Super powerful debugging function in JavaScript. This function will output your variable in question to the Firebug console or the HTML page. With it you can debug anything from an Object, array, string, integer, etc. It is also recursive-safe. 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117/** … Continue reading →

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