Tux Blog


Jim's really boring tech blog.

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WoW players will be able to change sides.

So you’re a World of Warcraft player that spent hours leveling your toon to level 80. You’er tired, you’re bored, but you don’t feel like switching sides (either horde or alliance). Blizzard is working on a service that will let you switch from Horde to Alliance or Alliance to Horde. There’s still much work to do [...]

Posted on 30 June 2009 | 12:49 pm

How to get Google page ranks with PHP.

This snippet of PHP code will show you how to get a Google page rank for a specific website. The function below will return the page rank as an integer. function getpagerank($url){ $fp = fsockopen(”toolbarqueries.google.com”, 80, $errno, $errstr, 30); if(!$fp){ [...]

Posted on 28 June 2009 | 3:39 pm

Bored again, so I wrote a blog commenting tool.

Basically I got bored at work again (U.S. Army, Iraq, about to come home!) so I tried to think of a useful tool I could write. I’ve always found it frustrating going to blogs only to find that they don’t have commenting on their articles. Sometimes I find a good read and I want to [...]

Posted on 28 June 2009 | 11:22 am

Drunk driving safer than text messaging? BS!

The headlines state that “Drunk Driving is safer than Text Messaging” but let’s use this thing called common sense, however they are both equally dangerous. Car and driver did a test to see how big a difference there was. Basically the test was between two people, one who was drunk, and the other who [...]

Posted on 28 June 2009 | 10:06 am

Watch out for the Michael Jackson scams and Viruses!

There has been numorous websites expoiting Michael Jackon’s death. Scammers are setting up Phishing sites posing as “charity sites” in the name of Michael Jackson, asking for personal information only to scam you later on. Chain mails are also being sent out via email in hopes that you will reply. Once you reply you can be [...]

Posted on 28 June 2009 | 9:53 am