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Tuesday the nineteenth of April two thousand and eleven

19 April 2011 Pilchards DAY2day

Today started with a real upset client – their domain had not been transferRred even after numerous tickets were sent, which I accepted too. True to my nature, I investigated the cause – incorrect name servers. The difference between a DOT com and a DOT co DOT za is um, big?!
How did I discover what was wrong? Simple terminal commands!!

malcolm@malcolm:~$ dig theirnameserver.co.za @8.8.8.8
    which told me that that domain did not exist, so I tested with .com instead and it exists!
malcolm@malcolm:~$ dig abcde.co.za @ns1.theirnameserver.com soa
    which told me that it was indeed the correct name server!

I dug all their records and delegated their domain, which is not abcde.co.za in case you tried it yourself. I frequently make use of google’s DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

This is all I have time for, so I might post a “part II”

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Learning on the job!

23 November 2010 Pilchards Fishy

I’m busy understanding how Regular Expressions work, simply via trial and error.
Funny thing is that I dont have anyone around me who can teach me this stuff, who is not busy…

So here is what I have learnt (taken directly out of my comments) in the past 30 minutes of getting real angry at spam that the filters dont block :

  • /can you do (this|that)/i -matches, ‘can you do this’ or ‘can you do that’ (case-INsenSitivE)
  • [[:alnum:]]{4,} -matches 4 or more letters or numbers, upper or lower -case
  • \D{3} -matches any three characters
  • something between [ and ] like [a4] will match either same or s4me
  • the ‘in?c’ matches either ‘ic’ or ‘inc’
  • the \b stipulates the word boundary between word (\w) and non-word (\W) characters
  • the [[:punct:]]{1} matches any ONE punctuation character
  • the /D is a non-digit and a \d is a digit, so /D{2}\d{3} matches ab727

Can you tell me what this does??
/^Download Prevxx? S[4a]?f[3e]?[0o]nl[1i]?n[3e]?/i

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please BE patient

24 May 2010 Pilchards Fishy

I’m still mid development and I have not finished, let alone really started, a report. SO please BE patient!!

Ok, I have added a plugin to update twitter and facebook, hence I logged into facebook to change my birthday. While I’m at it, to my dear friends especially Bl@nk, I have a contact page – top left – where you can contact me.
If facebook wont die, I’ll make good use of it!!

I’m up so late because I slept all day. May be getting the illness that has been doing its rounds in my home – it takes one out three days. Guess this is a good week to start teaching Andrew how to do my job when I’m sick!?

Tim, too much to say and I think my Thursday has been booked out for me..
And remember, it’s <shift><enter>!

Permalinks rock! My twitter updates use another plugin that make pretty permalinks…

eat me…

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