I’m currently working on an overhaul of LJ-Stat. It looks like there’s some issue in using curl_multi_exec() in PHP with too many requests at once causing some requests to fail strangely, potentially accounting for the lack of data from several sites that are clearly not down and clearly provide stats.txt. My current workaround is to [...]
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Posted 12 October 2008
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Tagged: bloty, chart, commiejournal, graph, historical data, history, iziblog, livejournal, livelogcity, lj, lj clone, lj code, LJ-Stat, stat, statistics, stats
It appears that there are now demonstrated exploits of PHP apps that use mt_rand() and/or rand() as a result of issues of seeding in one application affecting the PRNG stream in another application that used the PRNG to generate passwords or similar such things. From mt_srand and not so random numbers: … it is strongly [...]
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Posted 31 August 2008
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Web Programming
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Tagged: /dev/random, /dev/srandom, mersenne twister, mt_rand, password, php, prng, pseudo-random number, pseudo-random number generator, pseudorandom number generator, rand, random, random number, random number generator, rng, security
I’d written before about a really good VPS deal and how I was using it for additional secondary DNS. Not entirely surprisingly, that provider seems to have entirely vanished shortly after sending me an email at the end of my 1-month account asking me to renew (hard to renew when their web site doesn’t exist [...]
I wanted to make my slug running Asterisk do wakeup calls, since I currently pay $11/month for a daily wakeup call service and they’ll only try up to 4 times. As my starting point, I was using this dialplan from the-asterisk-book.com: [hotel-intern] exten => _*77*XXXXXXXXXXXX,1,Answer() exten => _*77*XXXXXXXXXXXX,n,Set(year=${EXTEN:4:4}) exten => _*77*XXXXXXXXXXXX,n,Set(month=${EXTEN:8:2}) exten => _*77*XXXXXXXXXXXX,n,Set(day=${EXTEN:10:2}) exten [...]
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Posted 18 August 2008
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Telephony
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Tagged: asterisk, busybox, coreutils, date, dialplan, ipkg, nohup, nslu2, shell, shell script, sleep, slug, system, touch, unslung, wake-up, wake-up call, wakeup, wakeup call
In case anyone was still curious following my previous headache post, it is possible to integrate WP2.6 and bbPress 0.9.0.2. I say “possible” because while I’ve got it working as far as I can tell (without having modified core code in either WP or bbP), I haven’t really tested it and it’s a mess. More [...]
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Posted 16 August 2008
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Tagged: 0.9.0.2, 2.6, action hook, add_action, bbpress, bbpress 0.9.0.2, clear_auth_cookie, cookie, cookies, integration, set_auth_cookie, wordpress, wordpress 2.6, wp, wp2.6
The other day, I realized while I was at work that I needed some files from my Mac desktop at home. Normally, no problem, ssh into my firewall and open a tunnel to my desktop (this is better done with authpf, but that’s a post for another time), use sftp, and done. The problem is [...]
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Posted 13 August 2008
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Networking
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Tagged: apple, firewall, mac, magic packet, os x, sftp, sleep, ssh, ssh tunnel, wake, wake-on-LAN, WoL
Now, I’m really big on *not* complaining about new versions of things and I especially dislike the practice of complaining about how a new version of WordPress broke some plugin that is of dire importance to someone’s website, but WordPress 2.6 is starting to give me a headache. I’ve already posted thrice about issues with [...]
So, as a followup to parts 1 and 2, per WordPress Trac ticket #7001, WordPress 2.6 has split up the login cookies into three parts: what was the one and only login cookie in 2.5 is now limited to /wp-admin there’s a copy of that one that’s just limited to /wp-content/plugins, for backward compatibility with [...]
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Posted 03 August 2008
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Web Programming
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Tagged: 2.6, action hook, add_action, admin_cookie_path, authentication, auth_redirect, cookie, cookie path, cookie paths, COOKIEPATH, cookies, do_action, hook, is_user_logged_in, plugin, plugin api, security, set_auth_cookie, user, user authentication, user login, wordpress, wordpress 2.6, wp, wp2.6
A List Apart is probably one of my favorite sites about web design. Their 2008 survey of web professionals is running now.
Having stated the problem and now played further, I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that there’s an action hook, ‘set_auth_cookie’, that gets called whenever the cookies are set, so if the stuff for which you want to authenticate is on the same server but at a different path, you can [...]
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Posted 29 July 2008
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Tagged: 2.6, action hook, add_action, admin_cookie_path, authentication, auth_redirect, cookie, cookie path, cookie paths, cookies, do_action, hook, plugin, plugin api, security, set_auth_cookie, user, user authentication, user login, wordpress, wordpress 2.6, wp, wp2.6