Dropbear

Year: 2011

  • Passwords in PHP

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    Are your passwords always failing in PHP programs using databases? Maybe its time to look at how the passwords are stored and the field lengths.

  • Lottery from ancient rockers

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    Apparently I’ve won the lottery. What is even more amazing is that it is one based not in Australia but in the UK ELO (England Lottery Organisation) and I didn’t even buy a ticket.  Even more amazing is even though this organisation is based in England, they don’t write English very well; perhaps its declining…

  • Gjay 0.3.2 released

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    After getting past a series of silly errors gjay version 0.3.2 is now available.  The source code was uploaded to SourceForge and the Debian package has been uploaded to the FTP master site. This version fixes the linking bug that have been extensively reported in a lot of Debian packages.  This is where you are…

  • Getting around the WordPress "add image" bug

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    WordPress currently has an annoying bug where you cannot add images easily using the in-built editor. Instead of a pop-up being shown with the image setting details, you are sent to another page.  Once you choose the image size etc, you go to a blank page. Until that’s fixed, there is a work-around.  It’s not…

  • Silly C errors in gjay

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    I have been working on Gjay to add support for http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki where I had what initially looked like a strange problem. When WITH_MPDCLIENT was defined, the program would crash in all sorts of weird places when the main program structure had this: But would work fine when it was: I tried changing the structure to…

  • JFFNMS at RC2, ncurses at 5.8

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    After some reports back about [JFFNMS](http://www.jffnms.org/) 0.9.0rc1 I have now updated it to rc2. Thanks for all who gave me information about how it worked in YOUR setup.  I cannot be sure but I’d say the second RC will be the last until the release itself. Sven has also given me the nod and ncurses…

  • Apache and incomplete redirection messages

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    How to use Redirect statements correctly so apache doesn’t complain about incomplete redirections

  • JFFNMS 0.9.0 release candidate 1 out

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    JFFNMS v0.9.0 RC1 is out with lots of code cleanups and new set of engines.

  • Updating the website

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    I’ve finally got the new website up and running after testing for a while. It has combined the blog and static pages into a single site that hopefully actually works and means I don’t have to worry about compiling a site every time I change something. The blog software has been changed from [movabletype](http://movabletype.org) to…

  • Syntax Highlighting with Mid-Century themes

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    As a site that discusses a variety of programming languages, I thought it would be good to have syntax highlighting for the code snippets. This blog previously ran [Movable Type][] so it had to fit in with the setup I have already. So I found the [Syntax Highlighter][] module ok and the initial installation went…