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Setup Zen Cart Local Sales Tax Mod

I recently had to hack my way through the Local Sales Tax Module for Zen Cart. Much thanks to Heather and her help with getting this to work on Leap! Movie

To start follow the instructions at Local Sales Tax Mod
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DVD Copying to hard drive with dd
In adddition to using vobcopy, and mkisofs you could also use plain old dd to do the trick ( sometimes )

It sometimes works, and when it does it works well.

From the command line in *nix ( Unix, Linux, OS X, etc. )

> dd if=/dev/dvd of=/tmp/dvdfilenametocreate

Lets break this down. dd is the command you are running, and if is the input file, everything is a file in *nix, and of is the output file you wish to write.
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Unix and KSH to find yesterday’s date

Mastering Unix Shell Scripting: Bash, Bourne, and Korn Shell Scripting for Programmers, System Administrators, and UNIX Gurus, 2nd Edition


Wicked Cool Shell Scripts: 101 Scripts for Linux, Mac Osx, and Unix Systems

I did a bunch of searching and found a lot of places online to do timestamp conversions, and perl programs to get yesterday’s date. Some worked and some didn’t. But none the less, I didn’t need a whole program to do this, and I especially didn’t need an online converter for use in my app. I needed something simple and small that didn’t use a lot of calulations.

Here is what i came up with for use in the shell (KSH)
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DMOZ.PHP3 No Longer exists

It seems that a lot of people are still accessing toastboy.com from script sites looking for my dmoz.php.

It has been offline for a long while.

If you are still interested in the dmoz.php script. Leave me a comment, and I will re write one and post it again.