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Trash days on Monday suck.
I constantly forget to take out the trash on Saturday when there is a holiday on Monday. I dusted off the old trash-day-php script and installed it.

Installation is pretty simple.
Edit the script with the values you want.
place it in /etc/cron.daily/trash-day-php
chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/trash-day-php

cron doesn’t like . in filenames. Thats why I named the file trash-day-php not trash-day.php.

To test your email just run /etc/cron.daily/trash-day-php –test

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I wrote this quick & dirty bandwidth monitor for use with htop. It also displays the average bandwidth for the last 10 seconds.

It displays a line similar to this at the top of the screen:
eth0:RX:600b TX:944b Avg:77b eth2:RX:0b TX:0b Avg:0b

Usage is simple:
$ ./bw.monitor.php & htop
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Many times when you’re writing a php script, you need to put things in arrays.

You might be thinking to yourself why doesn’t this section of code work?
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After several hours of playing with php I think I’ve finally developed a stable calendar class.
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