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Where In The World? (Facebook App)

Posted by Jason on March 5, 2012 in Software. 0 Comments

An interactive map of all your facebook friends.

This app will display your friends list on a google map of the world. You can see where all your friends live throughout the world broken down by the cities they all live in.

It uses their current location setting or hometown to map them out. Please note that any friends who do not have that set or chose to hide their location will be ignored.

If you have any problems or suggestions please let me know!

App Link: http://apps.facebook.com/mapeveryone/
Info Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Where-In-The-World/351685124856812

Privacy Policy

Posted by Jason on February 11, 2012 in Software. 0 Comments

Any data collected is used to personalize and correctly serve automated requests back to the requester.
Any information stored is secured from all outside access.

Linux firewall made easy (UFW-Uncomplicated Firewall)

Posted by Jason on February 18, 2011 in Software. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

I have just installed Ubuntu 10.10 and was searching around for the simplest way to enable a basic firewall. Instead of messing around with iptables, I’ve found a program called ufw to be a much simpler way of managing your firewall. Just install it from apt, set up a couple simple rules, and let it do it’s magic.

If you don’t already have ufw installed then run this first.

apt-get install ufw

First ufw command is to deny everything by default. (It won’t boot you until you enable it.)

ufw default deny

Next is to tell it what ports to allow traffic into. You can either use predefined application profiles or just specify the port numbers directly.
Using profiles:

ufw allow 'Apache Full'
ufw allow 'OpenSSH'

Or if you just want to use port numbers:

ufw allow 80,443/tcp
ufw allow 22/tcp

And now to enable the firewall, and also save the settings for reboot.

ufw enable

There you have it. Visit this help page for more examples and info.

VBulletin Hack: Display Random Logo

Posted by Jason on May 4, 2010 in Scripts. 0 Comments Tags: , .

This hack will randomly change the forum logo for users randomly every (images/1000) times.
If you have five images then there is a 5 in 1000 or 1 in 200 chance the user will see a “changed” logo.

It usually freaks people out and is a lot of fun.
Works on vBulletin 3.6 and above.

You will need to edit the image url’s as you need. For examples I added in 3 images named logo_random1.jpg through logo_random3.jpg

//random logo hack 1.0, created by jason volk <jason@teknidude.com>
$rnd_pics = Array(
  "/forums/misc/skin/logo_random1.jpg",
  "/forums/misc/skin/logo_random2.jpg",
  "/forums/misc/skin/logo_random3.jpg",
  );
//pick random number
if (($rnd_i=rand(0,1000))<count($rnd_pics))
  $stylevar['titleimage']=$rnd_pics[$rnd_i];
unset($rnd_i,$rnd_pics);  //clear used vars

Notice: Missing DLL or OCX errors

Posted by Jason on May 4, 2010 in Software. 0 Comments

Most of these programs are a couple years old and were originally made with Visual Basic 6 for Windows XP.
If you are using Win7 or Vista then you will most likely need the VB6 runtime files or else some missing DLL & OCX errors will pop up.