Date: 11/17/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: database, sql, web, linux

Second post today, I knew there was something else. I just wondered how does everyone go about managing there projects? I've been given the task of redoing my companies database delivery system (wow such an impressive title) basically converting all the Access databases we have into webbased sql databases and front ends, but this project is going to be huge (with a team of around 3 of us, for a 3000user base, yes, this isn't going to work) and I thought my current system of a folder and dropping scripts into just wont cut it, esp for revision control so is it possible or does anyone use cvs or svn for revision control or something simular. I would like something easy but at the end of the day whatever works. I could use a linux box but it's all windows servers so something that can work on windows would be better, which is a shame.
Any ideas is greatly appreciated.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/368626.html

Date: 11/21/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

If you've got some technical chops Linux should work fine in a workgroup setting, and the upfront costs can go into your pocket. If you're Clueless about computing, if you want it done for you, then maybe Microsoft will work better for you.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=502&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 11/21/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: linux

hey :)
I'm probably stupid - maybe it's just caused by using windows since win 3.1 and something even before that, but I have a problem with switching into linux. I love my Mandriva, it's much better than anything else (fedora core 3 is evil) but when I try to install something new there's always something that I don't have on my disc and I have to find it and even when I find it, its not working so I'm tired because of all this things. Right now I have a double problem - I'm trying to install something - I have RPM and tgz version... I've tried both... and this is what I got:
- RPM can't be installed due to lack of linux-gate (what the hell is it and how to install or create it??)
- .tgz version needs python headers an I don't know which library's missing cause I've installed so many that I don't know which is which...
any of you can take me by the hand and lead through this compilations, installations and all of this creepy things??

and btw. I love my linux when it shows me logs like this one "missing script is too old or missing"

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/533497.html

Date: 11/24/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: virus, spyware, linux

i have a network with three computers connected. One of them is being used as a server and has linux on it, the other is a laptop.

I am wondering if there is a program that will scan the network, so I can scan those other two computers for viruses/spyware through my main computer?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/535176.html

Date: 11/28/05 (IT Management)    Keywords: linux

A jury of CIOs believe that Linux-loaded laptops for children in poorer countries will be a momentum booster for desktop Linux.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9589_22-5973586.html

Date: 11/29/05 (Security)    Keywords: linux

Five risky flaws could let intruders remotely run code on vulnerable computers loaded with Windows, Linux or Solaris.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5975496.html

Date: 12/02/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, xml, linux

Still operating off of PHP 4.2.2. I decided tonight was the night for change (and losing hair).

I am clueless when it comes to linux but that's the OS (Linux 9.0) I got up and running to create an intranet prototype of my site. I've never actually configured PHP before but am trying to get 5.1.1 up and going. From the previous version, apparently Linux enabled a LOT of PHP configurations (according to phpmyadmin). I'm running into a lot of walls errors with libxml and other --with configs. So my question is two part:

1) what NEEDS to be configured?

2) If I come back later to configure something else to PHP, do I have to include ALL ./config statements, INLCUDING ones I may have done upon previous configuring?

(This is why I use windows and Dreamweaver for development :)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/373362.html

Date: 12/06/05 (MySQL Communtiy)    Keywords: php, mysql, sql, linux

It's me again.

Got this message through phpmyadmin:

Warning: Your privilege table structure seems to be older than this MySQL version!
Please run the script mysql_fix_privilege_tables that should be included in your MySQL server distribution to solve this problem!

I'm on Linux (Ubuntu). where is this function/module and how do you call it? Through mysqladmin?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mysql/75435.html

Date: 12/08/05 (MySQL Communtiy)    Keywords: mysql, rss, software, database, sql, linux

Any ideas?

CREATE TABLE `LAD_RSSDB_FEEDSTER_CORE` (
`RSS_ID` int NOT NULL auto_increment,
`SITE` varchar(64) DEFAULT 'rssdb' NOT NULL,
`ACCOUNT_ID` int DEFAULT -2 NOT NULL,
`URL` varchar(900) NOT NULL,
`CHANGED` tinyint DEFAULT 1 NOT NULL,
`STATUS` tinyint DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL,
`LAST_PINGED` datetime DEFAULT '1970-01-01 00:00:00' NOT NULL,
`LAST_DOWNLOADED` datetime DEFAULT '1970-01-01 00:00:00' NOT NULL,
`TIMESTAMP` timestamp NOT NULL,
`PING_INTERVAL` bigint DEFAULT 144000 NOT NULL,
`CRC32` int DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL,
`STRIKES` int DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL,
`FIRST_CREATED` datetime NOT NULL,
`CREATED_BY` varchar(50) DEFAULT 'unknown' NOT NULL,
`NM_PROCESSED` int DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL,
`NM_CUMUL` int DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL,
UNIQUE KEY `RSSDB_FEEDSTER_CORE_IND1` USING BTREE (`RSS_ID`),
KEY `RSSDB_FEEDSTER_CORE_IND2` USING BTREE (`URL`)
) ENGINE=INNODB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

and I got the following error message:

#HY000Can't create table './rss/LAD_RSSDB_FEEDSTER_CORE.frm' (errno: 139)

Machine is l00nix and build is:
root@mosdef [6:43pm]:86:/data# mysqladmin version -p
Enter password:
mysqladmin Ver 8.41 Distrib 5.0.16, for pc-linux-gnu on i686
Copyright (C) 2000 MySQL AB & MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult AB
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license

Server version 5.0.16-log
Protocol version 10
Connection Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket /tmp/mysql.sock
Uptime: 5 days 1 hour 57 min 29 sec

Threads: 7 Questions: 11430901 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 0 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 34 Queries per second avg: 26.036

The production version of this will be on FreeBSD - is this a locale issue? Do I need to recreate databases and/or recompile?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mysql/75539.html

Date: 12/07/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, sql, linux, google, apache

Hello everyone
I've got a little bit of a problem, @ work I run PHP on apache which then runs on Win2k Server. For email I have just edited the php.ini and changed

SMTP =
smtp_port = 25

to point at our exchange server. Now here's the hard part @ home I run a linux server, well 2, 1 is my mailserver and various other stuff the other is my dev box, apache/mysql/php. How/what do I need to change to get my dev box to send mail to my mailserver ? I've had a look on google but drawn a blank.

My dev box is called pm-sr02, mailserver called pm-sr01.

Thanks for any answers

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/375707.html

Date: 12/08/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser, java, security, virus, linux

News of a new security vulnerability has been posted for Firefox 1.5 (my testing confirms it also affects Firefox 1.0.7) that allows for Denial of Service or potentially arbitrary code execution. It has to do with a buffer overflow in the parsing of history.dat, which stores browser history.

Basically, if you visit a malcious site using this vulnerability, the next time you try to start Firefox it will run the malicious code, which could be as minor as causing Firefox not to work (such as the Proof of Concept) or as serious as executing arbitrary code (i.e. it could install a virus or other malware). Fortunately, there is a simple workaround: just set Firefox to keep browser history for 0 (zero) days, essentially setting it not to keep history, and then restart Firefox to make the change take effect. Note that disabling JavaScript DOES NOT mitigate this vulnerability; only disabling browser history does, since that prevents the creation of history.dat. Also note that the malcious code would run each time you attempt to start Firefox, until you delete history.dat from your profile folder.

I don't believe Mozilla has announced anything about this yet, but proof of concept code is available, and I confirmed with my own testing that it works as I described on both Mac OS X and Windows, using both Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 1.0.7, meaning that all versions are probably affected (or at least all recent versions).

Here are the steps to mitigate this vulnerability until a patch is released (for Firefox 1.5):

1. Open Firefox Options (Tools->Options on Windows) or Preferences (Edit->Preferences on Linux, Firefox->Preferences on Mac OS X).
2. Choose "Privacy" from the top button bar, and choose the "History" tab.
3. Set "Remember visited pages for the last ____ days." to 0 (zero).
4. On Windows, click OK to close the Options window. On Linux or Mac, simply close the Preferences window.
5. Restart Firefox to make sure the setting takes effect.

The same steps apply to Firefox 1.0.x, it's just that the options/preferences window is different. Basically, for step 2 the "Privacy" button is on the left side button bar, and history is the top section on that pane.

More details for the technically minded...

X-posted to firefoxusers

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/341566.html

Date: 12/13/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: software, linux, microsoft, google

Time Warner and software giant Microsoft are understood to have held talks earlier this year on how the two firms could work more closely together.

Analysts believe Microsoft is keen to buy part of AOL and merge it with its own internet business.
Source

My position - if this happens it will mark the beginning of the end of the internet as we know it. AOL is already known for it's restrictive practises, combining this with Microsofts proprietry "standards" and monopolistic practises the net will be reduced to a microsoft only zone with linux/mac users unable to access a lot of content due to DRM restrictions. Microsoft would also use this position to force companies like google out of its way, making their sites incompatible with the AOL/Microsoft internet portal.
Discuss.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/834047.html

Date: 12/15/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, html, linux, apache

I just can not get gettext() to work! I feel like every article I've read on the subject offers a different way to implement this in a script, but none of them seem to be working for me. If anyone can offer any help, it would be greatly appreciated.

• Local
• Server
• Windows XP Prof SP2
• Apache 1.3.34
• PHP 5.0.5 (with the gettext extension enabled)
• File system
• BASEDIR: c:\localhost\site\
  
  internals\lang\ --language file directory
  internals\lang\en\
  internals\lang\en\LC_MESSAGES\messages.mo
  internals\lang\en\LC_MESSAGES\messages.po
  internals\lang\es\
  internals\lang\en\LC_MESSAGES\messages.mo
  internals\lang\es\LC_MESSAGES\messages.po
  
  public_html\gettext.php --gettext test file
• Remote
• Server
• Linux (not sure of the distro)
• Apache 1.3.33
• PHP 4.3.11 --with-gettext
• File system
• BASEDIR: /home/username/
  (same as above)




---



------------------------
public_html\gettext.php
------------------------


putenv ("LANG=es");
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");

bindtextdomain ("messages", "c:\localhost\site\internals\lang");
textdomain ("messages");

print(gettext ("Hello!"));
?>

------------------------
shell commands
------------------------

xgettext -a --omit-header gettext.php

msgfmt -o messages.mo messages.po

------------------------
internals\lang\en\LC_ MESSAGES\messages.po
------------------------

#: gettext.php:27
msgid "Hello!"
msgstr "!olleH"

------------------------
internals\lang\es\LC_ MESSAGES\messages.po
------------------------

#: gettext.php:27
msgid "Hello!"
msgstr "Hola!"


EDIT: I've miraculously and inexplicably gotten the script to work on my local box, but it still won't work on the Linux server. I think it might have something to do with the "putenv("LANG=es"). Is there a different variable that needs to be set? Ideas?

Date: 12/20/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: linux

I'm sure this has been posted before, but here goes:

I am wanting to install some flavor of Linux on my laptop. I'm doing a full reformat with three OS partitions and a data partition, to install OS x86, Windows XP, and Linux. I've had some experience with Knoppix, Ubuntu, Suse, and Red Hat. I'm more familiar with KDE, and I'm looking for something that will be relatively painless to install, but that I can still learn about and make good use of. I'm going to be installing on a Dell Latitude D600, and I'd love for all the hardware to work natively - especially my 1400x1050 ATI Mobile 9000 adapter and my Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 B/G internal card. Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

Thanks in advance.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/838459.html

Date: 12/29/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, html, security, web, linux, apache

Greetings all, new reader on the community here.

I'm one of the co-administrators of a small private co-op site, and we recently had our webserver hacked. :( We're still trying to figure out why, but there is some suspicion that PHP vulnerabilities might have been the vector of attack. As a result I am planning to upgrade to the latest and greatest version of PHP, but before we go live again with that, I want to review the PHP that runs on a few sites we host and make sure that I've taken care of as many holes as reasonably possible.

We run Debian Linux, and I've just upgraded us to Apache 2.0 as well. (We plan to upgrade to 2.2 as soon as we have a Debian package for that.) And I plan to put PHP 5.0.5 up off of backports.org.

The questions I would like to pose to the community are:

1) Since PHP 5.1.1 is not available in package form yet, are there any known big problems with 5.0 that might make it necessary for me to build 5.1.1 by hand?

2) I've been reading up in the Security chapter of the docs on php.net, as well as the SecurePHP wiki, and have come up with a list of things I know I'd like to look at. Can anyone recommend things besides these items that I ought to look at?

- Use .htaccess to control who gets to look at source code
- Take sensitive data, e.g., passwords, out of public web space
- Verify that register_globals is OFF
- Validate all user data
- Initialize variables
- Turn off magic quotes
- Use addslashes and stripslashes as needed
- Set expose_php = off in php.ini
- Log errors out to files not in public space rather than displaying them on the page
- Use $_POST, $_GET, $_COOKIE, and $_SESSION for global variables
- Use htmlspecialchars() for hidden form values
- For URL stuff, use both htmlspecialchars() AND urlencode(); the latter should be for specific variables in the URL, and the former for the entire URL

Thank you very much in advance for any pointers!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/384514.html

Date: 12/30/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

The whole industry will be watching closely how Tenable does in 2006. If it gains market share in the enterprise space, any losses among Linux users will be more than offset.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=535&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 01/03/06 (Open Source)    Keywords: web, linux

If you put a stopwatch on Windows users, timing their use of various applications, and noting what the Web-based stuff on, they might be surprised to learn how much of their day is spent on Linux already.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=536&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 01/05/06 (Application Development)    Keywords: software, linux

The company plans to release software that will let outside programmers help with its OpenSuse version of Linux.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6020074.html

Date: 01/05/06 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: linux

In my room, I have two computers. The main machine is a WinXP tower connected to pretty much my entire home media system. The second is an old IBM 760ED laptop with Win98. I usually sit on one side of the room and use that computer for writing and work and whatnot, to keep myself free of the distractions of games and the like. What I am wondering is this:

Is it possible to set up a command-line music player on the XP machine so that I can telnet to it from the 98 machine and play music on the main computer? I know it is fairly easy with Linux, but I no longer have my linux machine. My laptop has crappy speakers and is not connected to the main speakers, so I'd like to be able to pick and choose MP3s for the main computer without having to keep putting down the heavy laptop and crossing the room when I want to change the music.

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ms_windows/55534.html

Date: 01/06/06 (Security)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

A US-CERT report that found Microsoft's OS had fewer vulnerabilities than Linux-Unix in 2005 is flawed itself, critics say.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6021867.html