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How to monitor disk space in Linux boxes

Sometimes, you will need to monitor your disk space on some linux servers in your network. You may install monitoring tools like Zabbix, however this may be too much, may be you just need to monitor disk usage on the box. You can use this script to e-mail you every morning with the disk usage [...]

Free fonts for your applications

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When developing a website or a web applications we sometimes need different fonts to be used then the usuals. Be it just navigation buttons, site slogan or a CAPTCHA code. At Urban Fonts you can download free fonts for your usage, or if it is not enough you can browse through paid ones, pick [...]

Why server side validation is important or why spammers love JavaScript validations

It was those days when you could just leave your email out there, have contact, registration and etc forms without any forced validations, only few companies like Yahoo! had CAPTCHA validations…
Yes, those were the days! But now we have JavaScript, CAPTCHA, Audio, Server Side validations to avoid spam and misuse of the forms.
Now, when you [...]

Exabytes and time

I was doing one freelance work where I had to use LAMP technology. So my client has ordered hosting from Exabytes. Interestingly I had some bugs on theirs servers. I digged some more and I find out that their PHP time is wrong. Here’s the screenshot:

As you can see from the screenshot the server shows [...]

ATM Monitoring in Ambank

Recently, I had the opportunity with three other vendors/freelancers to come up with a solution for their M$ ACCESS based “application” which record downtime of their ATMs. Basically it’s a .mdb file which is shared on a ms win server folder.
Before everything else, I was surprised how they “monitor” their ATM machines!  They literally watched [...]