Olexiy's Blog - not only work...

Eating vegeterian can be fun

2012-06-07T04:37:00.001-07:00

'Failure is proof that desire wasn't strong enough.'

2012-02-22T00:58:00.000-08:00

In many cultures it is commonly believed that a strong intent is a key to success and without a strong desire to accomplish something you are doomed to fail.

It is obvious that by focusing on goals and tasks, a person subconsciously finds the best way to accomplish them. A strong desire makes us concentrated and mobilises our powers.

Sometimes people do not really know what they want. Their mind is full of contradictions which is by the way a normal condition of human being. Quite the opposite situation is when we have a clear idea of what to do and no doubts interfere with our thoughts.

Most of the time is being spent on convincing yourself while action is direct and simple. Motivational experts such as Anthony Robbins argue that the first thing to do is to create an idea or urgency, that you cannot live without something, then your achievement happens by itself.
But is it really that simple?

In real life situation the result of your actions usually depends on many factors and not only your desires. For example you become may become sick, someone else on whom you depend may fail and so on.

While some people believe that a thought can be material, the true situation is that the only person whom you can influence by thinking is you. Other ideas may be found in religion and mysticism.

In my opinion our mind is really a mystery, anyway we should rely more on reason to control our actions. And a failure is not a proof but a signal to give it another try. Successful people fail too but what makes them different is that they never give up.

Batch webshots

2011-10-19T03:01:00.001-07:00

http://www.softportal.com/get-18006-webshot.html

Sound recording and time tracking software

2011-10-08T02:48:00.000-07:00

Time tracking:
http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/utilities/timetrek/index.html

Sound recording:
http://download.cnet.com/Free-Sound-Recorder/3000-2168_4-10698910.html

Das war eine flantastische Zeit in Deutschland

2011-04-02T02:09:00.000-07:00

Oh, this is so true!

2011-04-02T02:06:00.000-07:00

Economic recession

2011-02-06T03:23:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas!

2010-12-23T05:39:00.001-08:00

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all existing and new customers!

Optimising sites for fater loads

2010-09-25T08:06:00.000-07:00

Nice article about subject:

http://www.getelastic.com/3-tips-for-a-faster-website/

I love NY

2010-08-21T13:57:00.001-07:00

Installing custom php5 as cgi module

2010-08-21T13:50:00.000-07:00

I often need modules that are not enabled by default at my hosting @pair.com. Solution is to install a custom php.cgi module.

1. Download latest php source from php.net
2. unzip to phpdir (call it whatever you want)

'./configure' '--with-config-file-path=phpdir' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-bcmath' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr/local' '--with-gd' '--with-freetype-dir' '--without-msql' '--with-mysql=/usr/local' '--with-mysqli' '--with-pdo-mysql' '--with-iodbc' '--enable-inline-optimization' '--without-gdbm' '--with-ndbm' '--without-db2' '--without-dbm' '--with-gettext' '--without-readline' '--without-recode' '--with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl' '--with-mcrypt' '--without-db3' '--enable-dba' '--with-curl' '--with-png-dir=/usr/local/lib' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib' '--enable-calendar' '--with-mhash' '--with-xsl' '--enable-mbstring=all' '--enable-mbregex' '--with-bz2' '--enable-exif' '--with-gmp' '--with-iconv' '--with-pspell' '--with-libxml-dir' '--enable-ftp' '--prefix=phpdir' '--exec-prefix=phpdir' '--program-suffix=5' '--enable-force-cgi-redirect' '--enable-discard-path'

3. nice make
4. make install

after these commands you will get php.cgi file in phpdir/bin folder.

5. copy it to some cgi-bin direcotry and make executable

6. add .htaccess file with the following instructions:

#PHP with security wrap provided by Pair
Action application/x-pair-sphpx /cgi-sys/php-cgiwrap/_Your_username_here/php5.cgi
AddType application/x-pair-sphpx .php .php3 .phtml .php4

Congratulations. It works!

Godaddy: access by IP address

2010-07-19T02:15:00.000-07:00

If you want to switch your hosting to Godaddy shared service you need to ftp files somehow. One of the options is Java ftp manager provided in control panel. But easier to connect using IP address. How do I get one?

When open Java ftp manager - it shows IP adress of the server you connect...

Lakes and mountains

2010-06-12T00:02:00.000-07:00

New feature in PHP Picture attachment!

2010-04-20T00:36:00.000-07:00

We have important updates to PHP Picture Attachment:

-Now script supports saving data to database and text files. Binary data can be saved in blob fields.

What features would you like to see in the program. Please let us know :)

PHP Finance Manager/Greedy Duck

2010-04-20T00:29:00.000-07:00

We have updated Greedyduck.net with a number of new and exciting features:

-invoices
-customers
-suppliers
-pdf export

Script is available for purchase here:
http://www.merenkov.com/finance/

Demo:
http://www.greedyduck.net

PHP Availability Calendar Update

2010-04-20T00:27:00.001-07:00

New features were included in our calendar program:

-ajax-based interface
-highly customiseable with css and smarty templates
-back-end to add and manage unlimited number of properties

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Link exhcnage with market analysis sites

2010-04-20T00:23:00.000-07:00

I would be interested in exchanging links with market consultancy sites. Our site has PR1

Free program for burning CDs

2010-03-13T07:08:00.000-08:00

CDBURDNERXP
http://cdburnerxp.se

Like banners? - No, get AdBlocker!

2010-01-21T22:02:00.000-08:00

Very nice extension for Firefox - free adblocker program eliminates ads.
Ad remover - https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/addon/1865

Link exchange with 3d design sites

2010-01-14T21:38:00.000-08:00

We are looking to exchange links with high quality 3d design sites. Our site has PR5

PHP Polls Manager

2010-01-12T07:45:00.001-08:00

Simple PHP script to create and manage Polls:

http://www.merenkov.com/polls/

Display php/js/any code in blogger posts

2010-01-10T06:04:00.000-08:00

Extremely useful for developers who do it with blogger:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/42696

Task: send email notification after SVN commit

2010-01-10T05:23:00.000-08:00

This is supposed to be in svn post-commit hook file:

#get username of the user making commit
user=$(/usr/local/bin/svnlook author -r $REV $REPOS)

#send email message to admin
/usr/local/bin/php mail.php "from@email" "$user/$1" "to@email" "$log"

Code for mail.php is here:

<?php

//script usage php mail.php <fromemail> <subject> <toemail> <text>

if ($argc<5) die ("script usage php mail.php <fromemail> <subject> <toemail> <text>");
$frommail=$argv[1];
$subj=$argv[2];
$tomail=$argv[3];
$text=$argv[4];
$rez=mail($tomail, "$subj", $text,
"From: $frommail\nReply-To: $frommail");
if (!$rez) die ("error sending mail to $tomail");
?>

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2010

2009-12-25T06:29:00.001-08:00

Merry Christmas to all my existing and future contacts!

Project estimates...

2009-12-07T03:43:00.000-08:00

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