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ATLANTA - Vitamin E in large doses got an &quot;F&quot; from researchers at the American Heart Association&#39;s annual scientific sessions Wednesday in New Orleans.
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An IBM study expects viruses to crawl into cars and cell phones. Also:  Research finds more people banking online and the trend growing.... The Medicare budget swells past expectations.... and more.
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In one of his recent blog entries, Brian Moon takes a look at what he considers the "proper use" of the PHP superglobal $_REQUEST (as brought on by a thread on the PHP internals mailing list.   I have seen more than one person make the following logic mistake: I may get data via GET, I may get data via POST - Ah, I should use $_REQUEST as it will catch both.   Brian points out the error - cookies aren't in $_REQUEST so improper handling of those values could lead to cookie data overwriting GET/POST data from $_REQUEST. Several of the comments on the post also warn against improper handling of the values, noting that doing so could lead to holes open for attacks (like session fixation).
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In recent work, Ian Selby came across something odd - a setup where PHP was segfaulting without any real indication of where the error might be:   Starting to get a little frustrated, I took a peek at my error logs (/var/log/httpd/error_log for the unitiated), and discovered a wonderful message [about the segfault]. As any person scratching their head would do, I hit up google.. to no real avail. Just a bunch of php bug reports. So, what happened, and how did I fix it?   After searching through the code and narrowing down where it could be, the culprit looked like a custom session handler he was using. It uses MySQL to store the sesion information and, unfortunately, when Ian had compiled the server he didn't let PHP know about his unique setup.   His default installation was trying to use the default MySQL information (including the socket) to reach the database. Obviously failing, the server simply gave up and segfaulted. Thankfully, all it takes it a recompile with a few extra parameters and you're back in business.
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A website goes the extra mile to make sure voters aren & rsquo;t confused this Tuesday.  Also: West Virginia organizes the first public supercomputer & hellip;.  FDA keeps its eye on a new pain relief drug & hellip;. and more.
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It turns out that MySQL  has a terrible upper limit on the max MyISAM table size.  It appears that innodb doesn't have this problem.  Jeremy talks about it over on his blog   "When this happens, the first reaction I hear is "You never told me that MySQL has a 4GB limit! What am I going to do?" Amusingly, I usually do describe the limit when I discuss the possibility of using MySQL with various groups--they often forget or underestimate the impact it will have. Putting that aside, the problem is easily fixed, as that page explains. You simply need to run an ALTER TABLE command."  "And you'll need to wait. That ALTER TABLE is going to take some time. Really."  Of course Jeremey warns us that ...
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How many M&amp;MS are enough? It depends on how big the candy scoop is. At least that's a key factor, says a study that offers new evidence that people take cues from their surroundings in deciding how much to eat.
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12/21/04 -- It&#39;s the third largest pain relief drug in recent months to be linked with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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We&#8217;re showing ethernet going up and down on our server tonight. We&#8217;ve put in a ticket but it may not be resolved until tomorrow (Friday) morning. If the site is slow or unresponsive, please sit tight with us. Thanks! -Scott Share This
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Open-source software loses out in e-government project in Bangalore. Also: Tensions rise as EU court prepares to rule on Microsoft's antitrust case.... Monsanto saves money for a rainy day.... and more.
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ASK YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT VIOXX . . . but not for the reasons Merck &amp; Co. recommends. Last week a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) study found a link with heart attacks, and several large health insurers said
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I should have known... The idiots want to rule the Reddit I started for Scripting News readers. I couldn't figure out how to delete it, and while trying, I deleted my account, so forget the experiment, and if anyone at Reddit is listening, could you please delete it for me. (I sent an email but there was no response.) Still diggin!
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Based off of a previous article from Mike Willbanks, Stuart Herbert has posted some of his own thoughts on tuning and tweaking your applications for the best performance you can get out of them.   There's some good advice in there, and I thought it'd be a good idea to quickly add a bit more detail about the separate approaches that Mike raises.   He goes over the APC caching, memcache, the "gzip trick", the "Not Modified" header and optimized SQL statements.   He also mentions one thing that Mike didn't mention - a split between static files (no PHP needed) and their dynamic cousins. Having a more pure Apache (no PHP installed) can help give a minute jump in speed that, depending on the size of the site, could really add up from a user's perspective.
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Extracting artemisinin from the wormwood plant is labor intensive. UC Berkeley will complete development of a synthetic process to procuce artemisinic acid, while Amyris will develop processes
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Here's a screen shot of the HTML source.  Looks like it's trying to serve some kind of ActiveX control. Happy to be using a Mac.  PS: Scoble just showed up and TM works on his cell phone so there's something weird going on.
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Shares for Google slip for the first time since its public offering.  Also: FDA under fire for its slow Vioxx reaction & hellip;. Yahoo and SBC stay friends through new deal & hellip;. and more.