Manhole error left OAP paraplegic
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A drainage company is fined Â£16,000 after a pensioner was paralysed when he fell down an uncovered manhole.
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Latest PEAR Releases:Net_LDAP 1.1.0a2pearweb_gopear 1.0.3HTML_TagCloud 0.1.3Console_GetoptPlus 1.0.0RC1Crypt_GPG 0.4.0LiveUser 0.16.13
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Researchers appear to be one step closer to finding a treatment that can reverse paralysis caused by spinal cord injuries. By injecting paralyzed dogs with polyethylene glyco, veterinarians at Purdue University
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Latest PECL Releases:sam 0.2.0PDO_IBM 1.0.0SCA_SDO 1.1.0zip 1.8.1
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On the PHP Security Blog, there's two new posts concerning their Suhosin patch for PHP - one talking about a remote code execution vulnerability found in the uploadprogressmeter extension (which as already been corrected) and the other dealing with the "stealth mode" of the patch to find compatibility problems.   As mentioned, the issue with the uploadprogress extension has been fixed and as been introduced into the PECL repository. The other post just mentions what the patch is doing to try to keep compatibility problems from happening due to back extensions and/or modules being loaded in an application.   More details about the Suhosin patch can be found here.
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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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Latest PEAR Releases:Auth 1.5.3Auth 1.5.4HTML_BBCodeParser 1.2.2PEAR_Info 1.7.0RC2Validate_FI 0.4.0File_Fortune 0.9.2File_Fortune 0.9.1PHP_DocBlockGenerator 1.0.0I18N_UnicodeNormalizer 1.0.0RC1I18N_UnicodeNormalizer 1.0.0RC2PHP_DocBlockGenerator 1.0.1MP3_IDv2 0.1.2Testing_Selenium 0.3.2OpenDocument 0.1.1HTML_Template_PHPLIB 1.3.3File_Fortune 1.0.0RC1
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DevShed has posted the next part of their series looking at handling errors thrown by the __autoload functionality of PHP. This time they enhance their previous method and allow for custom error messaging.   In this last article of the series I'm going to introduce some additional modifications to the current signature of the "__autoload()" function to make it throw exceptions that display more useful error messages.   They start by setting up the application to have something to build from (a series of PHP scripts). They add on the exception handling to throw the custom error (the "class not found" they mentioned).
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Latest PEAR Releases:Mail_Queue 1.2.1PHP_DocBlockGenerator 1.1.1PHP_FunctionCallTracer 1.0.0File_PDF 0.3.0CodeGen_MySQL_Plugin 0.9.1devCodeGen_MySQL 0.9.1dev
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OK, we had an extended breather from our last look at BIND's zone file pri.example.org. It's time to finish up and get a sense of what these records mean. To go off-topic a little, recently, I had the task of setting up two OpenLDAP servers and putting together a test environment for a project with several developers and several applications including some LAMP applications. Without a working knowledge of DNS, the project would have gone amuck.
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I spent a few days over the last week trying to get a connection between Frontier and Amazon's SimpleDB.  I got connections going with: CreateDomain, DeleteDomain, ListDomains. They all use the same basic code to handle authentication, and all three work. But I hit a dead-end with the PutAttributes call. At first I thought I had found a problem on their end, because their JavaScript scratchpad app (a life-saver) had exactly the same problem as my code. I got in touch with the Amazon people, they asked me to download a new version of the scratchpad app, and it worked, but of course my app still doesn't. I compared my parameter list to theirs, and except for the signature and time-stamp they are identical. So there's something wrong with my code, clearly.  Here's a link to a plain text listing of the code. All four of the interface routines use this code to call the Amazon web service. This is the place the problem almost certainly is.  And here's the interface for PutAttributes.  As often happens, the geeky readers of this blog may spot the mistake that I don't, so all suggestions are welcome. I really want to get past this and start building applications that connect with this new web service.
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Latest PEAR Releases:Console_CommandLine 0.2.0PHP_Debug 1.0.0Text_Highlighter 0.7.1Log 1.9.14XML_Query2XML 1.6.0RC1pearweb 1.17.0pearweb_index 1.16.12PEAR 1.7.0RC2Text_Diff 0.3.2Date_Holidays 0.17.2pearweb_index 1.16.13XML_Query2XML 1.6.0pearweb 1.17.1
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Eat your Meat Casts Site News I have an apology for all the hardware geniuses and open source software experts out there.â¦
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Deploys new VoIP prefix, then steps back
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You could be next in the firing line Comment There are two cases, that I am aware of, moving through the courts in the US relating to accessibility of IT solutions.â¦
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NIPAWIN, Sask. (CP) - Robbed of speech by medical problems and unable to cry for help, a Saskatchewan man who is confined to a wheelchair spent 12 hours strapped inside a minibus on Christmas Eve after the driver apparently forgot to unload him.
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On Christmas day, after the potlatch subsided, I headed out for a run. When I flicked on my MP3 player, however, I heard ... nothing. Glancing down at the display of my Creative Nomad MuVo TX I saw an unwelcome message: "File system error." Grrr.