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Danilo Stern-Sapad
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Jul 1, 2020

My 10 Rules for Living

Be Joyful and Radiant (smiles really are contagious) See the Good in Others (focus on the good in people or everyone will disappoint you) Better Yourself Each Day (worry about improving yourself, not others) Always Forgive (holding on to past wrongs, only makes the hurt worse) Be Humble (there’s always someone smarter than you to learn from) Strive for Unity (we’re stronger together than we are apart)

Life Lessons

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My 10 Rules for Living
My 10 Rules for Living
Life Lessons

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Sep 6, 2019

How to fix the “Backup and Sync has encountered a fatal error, and will now terminate” error on macOS

This is a very short tutorial on how to fix the dreaded “Backup and Sync has encountered a fatal error, and will now terminate.” error when installing and then opening Backup and Sync from Google on macOS. I’ve had this issue with macOS Mojave, High Sierra, and Sierra. None of…

Tutorial

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Tutorial

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Jul 30, 2015

How to set up Virtual Hosts on Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11 El Capitan & Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite

This is a simple guide on how to set up name-based virtual hosts in Apache on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. This tutorial is intended as a supplement to my article, How to setup Apache, PHP & MySQL on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. …

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Jul 30, 2015

How to set up Apache, PHP & MySQL on Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan & OS X 10.10 Yosemite

This is a tutorial on how to set up Apache 2.4, PHP 5.5, and MySQL 5.6 on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. This tutorial is a good reference for PHP developers who want to set up a local MAMP development environment. …

PHP

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PHP

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Jun 18, 2015

Time Management is a Waste of Time!

For those of you who didn’t learn your lesson in, “The No BS Guide To Getting Things Done,” here is something further to waste your time reading. Hopefully, this will point you in the right direction (or maybe not). Oh, and guess what? It’s incomplete. Why? …

Time Management

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Time Management

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Jun 18, 2015

The No BS Guide To Getting Things Done

Step 1: Stop reading this and do what you need to do! If you’re still reading this stop! Seriously, quit wasting your time with blogs and other distractions and just get to work. Focus, focus, focus. Productivity books, articles, audiobooks, manifestos, etc. are all major timesinks (i.e. significant wastes of time). I wouldn’t even know what that term meant if I took my own advice! The only real secret to getting things done is to get to work.

Time Management

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Time Management

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Jun 18, 2015

How to Recursively Remove .DS_Store Files on Mac OS X

The following command will remove all .DS_Store files in a directory where it is executed as well as that particular directory’s subdirectories: find . -name ‘*.DS_Store’ -type f -delete Why would you want to remove .DS_Store files? The .DS_Store files store Finder-specific preferences concerning the display of each of your…

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Tutorial

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·Jun 18, 2015

How to Change a File’s Last Modified and Creation Dates on Mac OS X

This a very simple guide on how to change a file’s “date modified” and “date created” attributes on Mac OS X I wrote back in May 2009. Since then these directions have been updated for Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Date Format Key: YYYY — The year (the first two digits/century…

Tutorial

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Tutorial

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Jun 18, 2015

Decoding $_F=__FILE__;$_X=’…’; eval base64_decode

This is a further supplement to my posts “Decoding eval gzinflate base64_decode” and “Decoding eval gzinflate base64_decode str_rot13” originally published on my Tangential Musings blog back in May 2007. To decode files that look roughly like this: <?php $_F=__FILE__;$_X=’encoded text’;eval(base64_decode(‘pointless crud’)); ?> Just copy the text in between: <?php $_F=__FILE__;$_X=’ …

PHP

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PHP

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Jun 18, 2015

Decoding eval gzinflate base64_decode str_rot13

This is a supplement to the PHP snippet I shared describing how to decode code obfuscated using eval(gzinflate(base64_decode(‘encoded text‘))); and was originally posted on my Tangential Musings blog back in November 2006. The following code snippet is a simple PHP class found at the post by macosbrain entitled, “Decode Function…

PHP

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PHP

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