Enable Upload Progress and OPcache Modules for PHP 7.3 on 1and1 Shared Hosting

I recently switched my hosting provider to 1&1 IONOS Shared Hosting. I couldn’t find anywhere else that came close to the features offered for the price that this hosting company was offering. (I mean, $24 and I was able to …

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Installing a Transparent Squid Proxy Directly onto a DD-WRT Netgear R7000p Router

This guide will show you how to setup a transparent Squid proxy with HTTPS support directly on DD-WRT. Let’s dive right in! NOTE: Links will open in a new tab\window. Prerequisites The only requirements are that you have a SSH connection and …

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The Kinect as a Skype Webcam on Ubuntu

Using the Kinect as a webcam for Skype (or any other application) is fairly straightforward and already built into your kernel if you have a kernel version >= 3.0. The Kinect’s camera, microphone and motor are automatically enumerated and added …

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Using SSH, Wireshark and tshark to remotely analyze packets…

At home I use ClearOS (free) as my firewall/gateway. The one thing that ClearOS lacks is a graphical packet analyzer. However, the combined use of SSH, Wireshark and tshark solves this problem perfectly. Our first step is to setup a …

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ClearOS and Dynamic DNS Client ‘ddclient’

If you would like to update your dynamic IP address to a dynamic DNS service using ‘ddclient’ and are using ClearOS, then you’ve come to the right place! Let’s get started: First, log into ClearOS. You can do this physically …

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Compile OpenNI for Kinect Motor Control on Linux

First, make sure you have everything you need to compile OpenNI (if you don’t already have a Java JDK, you will need to install one): Next, make a directory to store the build in, then clone the OpenNI source from …

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Kinect Motor Control (Linux)

kinectmotorcontrol is a Linux command line program to control the Kinect motor using the OpenNI driver. As such, you must have the OpenNI driver installed and working (Linux version requires a patch). I do not do much error checking in …

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Kinect Motor Control (Windows)

I have created a command line program to control the Kinect motor using the OpenNI driver. As such, you must have the OpenNI driver installed and working. I do not do much error checking in my code and assume your …

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Shared printer offline after reboot fix…

When you add a shared printer in Windows 7 that needs to have credentials to be able to connect, it might only work the one time immediately after adding it. After a reboot, it will be offline and you can …

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OCR with OneNote…

A useful tip I learned not too long ago was that Microsoft OneNote has OCR (Optical Character Recognition) built in. Simply insert whatever image you want and then right click that image to get the option ‘Copy Text from Picture’. …

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