Tech Talk by a Kiwi
Tutorials
Tutorials about all sorts of differing topics.
How to deal with Bandwidth Bandits
Sep 13th
So I was going through my Apache logs for the first time in a very long time. Its just not been a high priority for me. But what I did notice is that two of my blogs, especially stevesgeekspeak.com, have had their bandwidth stolen quite significantly by a few Russian forum websites hotlinking to images on them. Here’s a bit of a story and tutorial about how I dealt with the issue using mod_rewrite rules in my .htaccess files.
HOWTO: Convert lots of JPEG images into a movie
Apr 3rd
First, if you are just looking for a script that will do this for you, jump to the code and take what you need. However, this post is a full tutorial that explains not only how it works, but the methodology behind getting it working. If you are impatient, the code block is halfway down…
Howto: Get variable substrings in Bat/Cmd scripts
Jan 31st
In this tutorial I show how to get substrings from environment variables in a DOS shell or Command Prompt environment. We use this to create log files with that days date in the file name using batch scripts. We will then create a script that can be scheduled to defrag a computers drives and output the results to the log file we specify.
Howto: Are you sure? prompt in Outlook
Jan 16th
Create a a prompt using VBA that asks users if they’re sure they want to send the email when they click send or press Ctrl-Enter to send emails in Microsoft Outlook.
IPv4 Subnetting 101
Jan 16th
In this tutorial, I cover the very basics of IP subnetting and how to calculate IPv4 addresses and subnet details.
