Campaign Monitor + Rails = Awesomeness

Once you have Rails up and going on Mac OS X Server, you can add useful plugins to extend the functionality and perform some useful tasks. One such solution would be to integrate with Campaign Monitor so you can subscribe new users/members/shoppers to lists within Campaign Monitor for later mail-outs. Start by adding some extra required gems to your server: sudo gem install soap4r Then, install the very useful Campaigning module: sudo gem install gnumarcelo-campaigning -s http://gems....

MIME Decoding of a screwed up email message

On a server I run for a customer, I have MailScanner (don't flame me.. it works!) configure to parse their incoming email. Anyway, one of their messages got clobbered by MailScanner and rather than quarantining the attachments as it normally does, it quarantined the whole message, and they needed the file from within the message. The file was base64 encoded within the ASCII body of the message. Solution: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/212198/ Basically, this is a one-line (plus...

Windows Administrator Local Logon Issue

If you get yourself in the unfortunate position of having changed the privileges of Administrator such that you can no longer log in as Administrator either locally or as a service... check this out! There is a way around, given that you've got another Windows machine you can put the hard drive into. Warning: this procedure is not supported by Microsoft, so I can't promise it won't damage the system. However, if you're about to format the disk anyway ... Get the broken drive out of the m...