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Installing suPHP on Centos 5
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suPHP is a tool that allows PHP scripts to be executed with the permissions of their owners. By not running PHP script using web server’s user rights, suPHP increase the server security. First install httpd-devel and compiler tools: yum install httpd-devel gcc gcc-c++ make Download suPHP source code and extract it wget http://www.suphp.org/download/suphp-0.7.1.tar.gz tar -xvzf suphp-0.7.1.tar.gz cd suphp-0.7.1 Now we compile suPHP ./configure [...] -
One Down, Two More
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I'm done for this week. What i mean is the mid test. The students has taken the mid test yesterday and today and what's next is to marks them. This is the hard part, since there are so many of them.
Today i have finished marking the first assignment and now two mid test course are waiting for
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Heavy Rain
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There was a heavy rain at evening. I was at my campus during the rain and the sound of the thunder was so loud. The students were having their test and suddenly the light goes out and ten seconds later, it went on again.
This morning, i watched Percy Jackson: Lightning Thief. The story is almost the same what i experienced in the evening, lots of water and thunder, except that there are no fire at all
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OpenSSH 5.4 Released
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OpenSSH 5.4 has been released today and this is a major upgrade. It will be listed on several mirrors shortly, so it's better to wait for local mirror to catch up with the update.
This version will disable SSH Protocol 1 by default, so if you are still using it (it's a bad decision), you will have to enable it explicitly on your sshd_config configuration file. Another protection is all SSH Protocol 2 private keys will be protected by AES-128 instead of 3DES algorithm. You can get this when updating your passphrase or creating new keys.
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Getting Slow Again
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Today, i experienced a slow Internet connection again. I believe it's related to rain which caused the connection got dropped very low. When it stopped, it's getting normal again. -
Google + DocVerse = Better Office Interoperation
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Google has announced that they have acquired DocVerse (announcement), a small team of talented developers who have worked towards MS Office files in the past. With this collaboration, Google Docs will have better interoperability towards MS Office files (doc, xls, ppt).
I believe Google's idea of having a cloud computing environment are getting closer and closer to reality. Many of their applications are ready for production use and many individuals or companies has started to use them. I can't wait for the next update of Google Docs after this process.
No wonder if Google has been nominated as one of the best company in the world. Their ideas are fantastic, just like Apple who achieved the same nomination. -
PHP 5.3.2 Released
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After long development time, finally PHP 5.3.2 has been released by PHP Team, following the previous stable version 5.2.13. The Changelog gives you a detailed changes in this release (which as usual, contains many fixes along with any security fixes).
I'm compiling it right now and since it has been patched to work with libpng-1.4, i shouldn't get any problem compiling this version on my Slackware
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Slackware-Current on Laptop
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OK, now my laptop has been running Slackware-Current, except that it still uses the old XOrg Server packages, due to problem with the KMS (i hate this). I have installed the kernel module which will enables me to disable the NVidia Card since it's not yet supported (GPU Switching). I hope it will be available on Linux Kernel 2.6.34, which has been started by Linus few days ago by releasing 2.6.33 and that means opening a merge window for 2.6.34.
I also compiled a new kernel 2.6.31.12, since i had problems with 2.6.31.7. It has a very low performance on copying files to another flash disk on EXT4. When i saw the Changelog for 2.6.31.8, i realized that this version has a lot of bugs in EXT4 file system, so i decided to get the latest one for 2.6.31.x version. Why wouldn't i go straight to 2.6.32 which is newer or 2.6.33 which is the latest? Based on review, 2.6.32 suffers more EXT4 problems, so i decided to avoid it. While for 2.6.33, it's too early to use that (even though Slackware-Current has started to use it for the default kernel stock currently). I will wait until -Stable release has been released by Greg. -
Catch Me If You Can
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Today, i used an old movie called Catch Me If You Can to educate students how dangerous social engineering can be. In this movie, Frank W. Abagnale has demonstrated how effective a social engineering attack can be. He can be a pilot, a doctor, and also a attorney general before he was even 19 years old.
I hope the students get the idea and able to avoid being a victim of a social engineering attack in the future
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Exam and phpBB
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On Tuesday, i teach 3 classes in a row, making it one of the busiest day in a week (besides Thursday). But the worst is not over yet, as i have to do other things when i came home (after i accompanied my girlfriend to Amplaz tonight). I have to make a mid test questions for two classes and also upgrade Indonesian Linux Forum engine to the latest phpBB which has just released this morning.
Luckily, i have managed to finish both of them on time, so it's time to get some sleep before another busy day tommorrow
