Entries from May 2005 ↓

The other night Kami asked me to write up a list of DVDs I wanted, and so I got to thinking and I comprised a list of 201 DVDs. You can find the list here. I currently own 41 of the DVDs on my Wish List, which is just a little over 20%.

I am hoping to one day complete it, though I realize as time goes on, my dvd list will get longer. Another small tidbit of information is the 41 DVDs I own are all on my Media Center and can be played at the press of a keystroke on a keyboard. My goal is to have my entire DVD List available in such a way thus making my media center one powerful machine.

Today was a day of phone tag. Today I was trying to get a hold of a company in Fort Wayne, IN and they were trying to get a hold of me, but neither of us were successful at our attempts and so it was a day of phone tag. It seems a company in Fort Wayne, IN is seeking to hire a Web Developer and I submitted my resume probably a week or two ago, and now they are trying to reach me and it is just frustrating not being able to connect.

I have probably sent out over 40 resumes to various cities and states and have hardly heard back from any of them, which is also frustrating. I do not mind relocating and I can even pay my own relocation fees, but nonetheless, no call, not even an email stating they received my resume.

I have primarily been using Yahoo HotJobs, CareerBuilder, and Moster Jobs for my job hunting, is there other sites that are popular that I should be checking out? Those of you who know of a few, send them my way!

As you all are aware, when using cpCommerce you have the ability to attach zip files to the products so the user can download the item upon completion of the purchase. In the old method, there were several ways on which a person could find the downloads directory and then have access to all of the files you have uploaded, this is now changed.

Now, it should be cleared up that this method does not stop them from “finding” the download directory by sniffing the header content in the browser, but rather the whole idea is placing the download directory in a spot not accessible by Port 80. To do this, you will need to have a web host who gives you SSH access (though FTP access may be sufficient too).

On most web servers you have a directory called ‘www’ or ‘public_html’. These directories tell the web server they are do be allowed for viewing on Port 80. Now if you create a directory called ‘downloads’ outside of these folders, they are inaccessible from Port 80 and thus anyone with an Internet connection cannot get to that directory by surfing your site (Please realize that if they had FTP access or SSH access, they could still get to it!).

Once you make that directory and chmod it to 0777, you can move all of your current download files from the public directory to the “private” directory. Finally, you will need to update your Configuration area, to tell it where the files are located. For the most part, it should be self-described, other than the fact that by default it will point to: /path to public or www directory/store directory/images/products/downloads/. You will want it to be: /path to your downloads directory/. An example of this path would be: /home/cpradio/downloads/

Now that you have it all configured, your download files are safe from the computer literate.