Posted in 7 May 2007 ¬ 01:52h.John
Hashing passwords is a common way to secure them in a database and make sure that they cannot be read easily. But did you know there’s a website that reverse engineers the hashes and stores them in a searchable database? The folks over at RedNoize have created such a site. Obviously, there’s no better protection [...]
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Posted in 29 December 2006 ¬ 12:09h.John
I had a great deal of trouble getting Internet Explorer to redirect the header to a RTSP link using the header function in PHP. I found that in IE, I would get a HTTP 402 error (page has been temporarily moved). IE would happily sit there and tell me it could not be found. Firefox [...]
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Posted in 4 October 2006 ¬ 15:05h.John
I’ve been trying to introduce spell checking into my PHP application and have been hitting a small snag. It’s called ASPELL. For the uninitiated, aspell is a command-line spelling utility to, well, do clever spelling stuff. In Apache, aspell works wonderfully. In fact, I wouldn’t have even thought that there was a problem. IIS on [...]
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Posted in 2 April 2006 ¬ 12:00h.John
Well, it seems that as the development of the learning platform trundles to it’s conclusion, I’m forced to look back at what has been done so far and say, “Bugger”. Half way through the development I switched my development server from Linux to Windows, and unknown to me started using a server that had magic_quotes_gpc [...]
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