Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL Musings
July 28, 2010 | In: Apache, Linux, PHP
Recently I was working on a script on a fresh virtual server. The script was pulled from a production server and was being actively used. When I try to run it on the test server, it was mysteriously not working, Apache access_log shows 500 HTTP response...
November 20, 2009 | In: BSD/Mac OSX, Linux, MySQL, Windows
I was reviewing a year old code which I am adding a feature to. It so happened I came to a familiar issue about having two timestamp/datetime columns, one which should have the CURRENT_DATE / NOW() as default value and the other with an 'ON UPDATE...
October 28, 2009 | In: Linux, Networking, Virtualization, Windows
We would usually just setup a NAT based VM appliance for any new requirement. Most of the time, access is limited to ones desktops. When the need arise for a shared Linux VM on our local Windows 2003 server, the inexperienced may find it trouble setting...
October 2, 2009 | In: Apache, Linux, PHP
I was recently updating ffmpeg-php on one of our servers to the latest SVN release of the 0.6.3 branch. On a 64bit CentOS 5.3 with PHP 5.2.11, the extension compiled and installed fine however Apache will not load it and spit out the error below: PHP...
August 19, 2009 | In: Linux
Finally I got to free up this laptop to be an all around testing machine after I got my wife her new MacBook Pro. Since I'd like a little more education, I decided to get back to Slackware after a couple of years. Install went fine, nothing much has...
August 2, 2009 | In: Apache, Certifications, Linux, MySQL, PHP
I have been reading on a number of project management articles lately and trends on open source projects. There seems to be a lot of fellow PHP developers who are as well Linux administrators for many server functions inluding HTTP servers like Apache and...
February 4, 2009 | In: Linux, PHP
There are many examples found on the web on resizing images using PHP while maintaining aspect ratio. However most of them are based on a single maximum dimension i.e. should not exceed a certain size with on either height or width. I have written the...
February 2, 2009 | In: Application Security, Linux
Security researcher Chris Paget recently drove around downtown San Francisco to clone RFID base Passports and Drivers Licenses using an inexpensive kit of wireless tools. More at theregister.co.uk: Using inexpensive off-the-shelf components, an...
January 18, 2009 | In: Linux, PHP
I was enjoying playing photofunia.com a while ago when I got interested on how I can implement such a thing with opensource tools, specifically LAMP. In less than a minute, with "php face detection" on Google I found this. The headline does say face...
December 14, 2008 | In: Linux, Networking, Server Security
I was recently investigating a LAMP application bottleneck. Part of which was to monitor web server entry points during peak hours. Looking into segregate connections and what each clients are actually doing I needed some advanced netstat know-how to get...