Moonlight Coding
This tutorial will show you how to take a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 LTS VPS and turn it into a web and email server for a single domain. Many VPS providers offer $5 solutions with 1GB of RAM and 1 vCPU. This is more than enough.
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What is the difference between static:: and self:: in a PHP object oriented reference?
The simple answer is that most of the time, they are the same. There is a small difference between the two that many PHP developers and programmers do not know.
Managing another website brings in some issues, like the setup. Surely this can be automated! I’ve had the site maker script working for a few months, but I just got the site unmaker script working, and I thought I would share those here.
In the last post, Generating Random Passwords 5 – Saving The Password, there was an issue with the passwords that were posted here. Did you catch it? They were not 32 characters long, even though I had specified that. Or rather, they had characters we could not see. These characters did not render, but were there.
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This is a continuation of previous post, Generating Random Passwords 4 – Emoji.
What we need to do now is to save the passwords we have been creating. As we have seen, the console does not always represent the characters correctly. Given that, we cannot rely that copy-and-paste will work correctly either.
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In Generating Random Passwords 3 – Untypable Characters we experimented with generating characters that are not on our keyboard. We can take that another step and use emoji characters.
In the last post, Generating Random Passwords 2 – Controlling the Character Pool , we were able to customize the character pool for passwords on the fly. Since we are talking about passwords for one piece of software to talk to another software, the character pool does not need to have characters that are on our keyboard.
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In the last post, Generating Random Passwords, we were able to create a random password of a length that we chose. However, we could not modify the character pool without modifying the source code.
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As a programmer, I will often need a password for a service account. A service account being an account that a computer program uses, and not a human. As such, the password can be long, and does not exactly need to be type-able.
I tried looking online for a random password generator, and none of them, I felt, were up to the task of creating passwords for my service accounts.
This post builds on Rolling the Dice, using the code from there.
Sometimes, as a DM/GM, I want to be able to roll “biased” dice. Sometimes biased heavier, sometimes biased lighter.
How do we go about making a weighted die programmatically?