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CHDK for Canon SX120 IS Camera ( Canon Hack Development Kit )

http://digitalpbk.com/hardware/canon-sx120-chdk-camera-canon-hack-development-kit Digital Camera. Features and interfaces with Digic 4 Processor which are not enabled by default in the firmware is enabled by using CHDK. Compared to other camera like Sony DSC H20, H50 or Nikon L Series, the one thing makes Canon cameras interesting is CHDK which has scripting support in it. For people who are interested in development, firmware and scripting, this is an exciting feature. CHDK allows you to have much more features in your camera than the normal ones, For Eg, CHDK can be used ...

Orkut YouTube Facebook etc Blocked ?? Follow this guide to Unblock

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/05/orkut-youtube-facebook-blocked-ssh.html Orkut YouTube Facebook etc Blocked ?? Follow this guide to Unblock Blocked ??!!!Most of you may be out there to desparately find out how to unblock all these social networking sites. The solution is to use a proxy. You can use proxy sites available all over the internet, or set up your on SSH proxy if you have an SSH server. Setting up an SSH server is easy. If you have a machine at home, install any linux distribution with SSH server enabled. Now grab hold of your Home machine IP address ...

Linux style command line for Windows, Drag to Select, Right click to paste

http://digitalpbk.com/windows/linux-style-command-line-quick-edit-right-click-paste , we can select using the mouse and right click using paste. Cygwin on windows gives most of the utilities on Linux, but the command line interface is still that of the Windows. So in order to bring Linux like command line on Windows, you just have to enable an option, which most of us rarely know. Right Click on the command line title and click properties Now tick the checkbox as highlighted in the image given below : Press OK and select save the properties for all windows. Or select ...

Base 64 Encoding

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2006/12/base-64-encoding.html Base 64 Encoding IntroductionBase 64 encoding is a method used in email systems. The email systems that where developed back in the time of Arpanet, where designed to support only Letters (A-Z,a-z) , Numbers (0-9) and some limited puncutation marks. So inorder to transfer files which can contain more than characters and digits (for eg,a picture.jpg file), Base 64 Encoding is used. The EncodingBase 64 encoding, as the name suggests, has 64 different characters to represent all the 255 characters ...

PHP file_get_contents giving garbled output

http://digitalpbk.com/php/file_get_contents-garbled-gzip-encoding-website-scraping PHP file_get_contents giving garbled output Are you getting garbled values when using file_get_contents fetching an external URL (website scrapping using php) and wondering what went wrong ? The content is appearing to have wierd characters instead of normal HTML output because of GZIP output encoding by the website you are fetching. You can fix this issue in multiple ways. Method 1 : Accept-Encoding In this method we set the request headers so that the webserver is forced to respond ...

XSS on Yaari.com

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/04/xss-on-yaaricom.html XSS on Yaari.com Lots of friendship network sites are coming up these days following the success of orkut. Another one supposedly originating from the same stanford university is yaari.com targeted at mainly Indian users. The site looks and functionality seems fine but is full of XSS holes (Cross Site Scripting). Almost all the fields can be bugged. Only thing that amazes me is that the site has used PHP. PHP has such a wonderful list of functions that can take care of the XSS problem. I wonder ...

Firefox Browser within Browser

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/01/firefox-browser-within-browser.html to functionality using JavaScript. To extend the browser, we modify parts of the browser UI by adding or modifying widgets. We add widgets by inserting new XUL DOM elements into the browser window, and modify them by using script and attaching event handlers. Have fun making tabs within tabs within tabs ......Did not work? Did not work ? What happened ? Lemme know ... Feel free to leave a comment ... ...

Showing similar content nodes on Drupal

http://digitalpbk.com/2009/12/showing-similar-content-nodes-drupal Showing similar content nodes on Drupal To show similar content nodes on drupal you have to install the similar module. After installing the similar module goto admin/build/block Drag the Similar Entries module OR If you want to integrate the similar content to the node body, call the similar_content theme function. print theme('similar_content', $node); on node.tpl.php Using the variables available withing node.tpl.php you can choose whether to display the similar content ...

Permission Denied on Hosts File (Windows 7)

http://digitalpbk.com/windows/host-file-windows-7-write-permission-denied Permission Denied on Hosts File (Windows 7) On Windows 7, I was trying to edit the host file using Komodo and was getting Permission Denied, and tried notepad too still got permission denied. I thought initially it was McAfee Anti Virus that was disabling the edit of host file as this file is an important system configuration file. The reason but was that Windows requires the editor to run with administrator privileges to edit the file, this is different in Windows XP because all programs ...

Sprintf Function in Python

http://digitalpbk.com/python/php-sprintf-function-in-python Sprintf Function in Python The printf or sprintf function is used to format strings in PHP and C programming constructs. sprintf in php returns the formatted string whereas printf just prints the output. $variable = sprintf("%d %s %d = %d",4,"+",5,9); print $variable; //OR printf("%d %s %d = %d",4,"+",5,9); //Both lines are identical. //Prints 4 + 5 = 9 On python, sprintf is handled using an operator instead of function. The % operator on a string ...