Sssshhhhhh. I’ve actually been updating this site. Don’t tell anyone or Tripod’s server is gonna crumble under the traffic [note the sarcasm].
Yes, some new stuff is being uploaded. More to come, as long as Unreal Tournament and Quake III Team Arena don’t take over my life any more than they already have. I am seeing why other software engineers out there don’t write any code for the fun of it in their spare time. After doing that for eight hours a day, staring at more code that I’m not getting paid for doesn’t seem worth it. But there have been complaints that I’m not finishing the site as quickly as they’d like to see. You know who you are. It’s tough but I’m a trooper, so the updates are on the way 🙂
In other news, I managed to figure out how to hack the ads in the latest version of ICQ (ICQ 2001b Beta v5.15 Build# 3634). It didn’t seem like they were really trying to safeguard against this like in previous versions. If you want to know how to get rid of the ads in ICQ, e-mail me and I’ll enlighten you 🙂 It still was no where near as easy as getting rid of the ads in MSN Messenger which we use at work as an IM solution with our Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server; changing a few settings in the Registry is all it takes.
Finally, thanks go out to Barry for making me do some independant learning. He came to me last week with a question. “Where’s a good place to get a CGI counter script for my website”, he asked. I replied, “I could whip ya up a Perl script quicker than you’d find a script site”. And so I did. Hardly a programming masterpiece, all it does is open a text file with a count value in it, increment the value and then write that value back to the text file. He didn’t want to display the count on the webiste; he just wanted it to keep a running total so he could look at it on his own. We decided to call my Perl script using an SSI (Server Side Include) similar to the following:
<!--#exec cmd="/cgi-bin/counter.cgi"-->
But it didn’t work. It didn’t even seem like the script was being called since no error messages were being returned. Odd indeed. After doing a little research about the Apache web server platform, I discovered that administrators can disable #exec cmd and for a good reason. In theory, you could run anything with #exec cmd provided you knew your way around that system’s directory structure. So in the end, I learned to use the following “safer” method of runnning commands on a remote system:
<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/counter.cgi"-->
🙂
