Hyper-V in Server 2008 RTM doesn't like non-US locales
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Bad traveling companion Hyper-V is Microsoft's whizzy new virtual server manager, which uses new virtualization features in recent Intel and AMD processors so support more efficient virtual machines. Intel's extensions are called Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel-VT), formerly code-named Vanderpool, while AMD's extensions are called AMD Virtualization (AMD-V), formerly code-named Pacifica. Here's what Intel says:â¦
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Gareth Heyes has a new post today talking about one of the vulnerable values in the $_SERVER superglobal - PHP_SELF.   I thought it might be a good idea to gather a few test cases demonstrating the problem. Why PHP allows these URL's is beyond me and it wouldn't take much work to filter out these malicious URL's in the PHP code.   He provides four test cases to show how simple it is to abuse - one using a HTTP header, another pushing XSS through, the third mentions search pages and the fourth a direct code injection.   You can download the code here.
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Here's a look at how Microsoft's Hyper-V works, its major benefits and when you can expect to deploy this in production environments.
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Richard Davey has a quick post noting the update of his WAMP Guide (a step-by-step method for installing Apache/MySQL/PHP on a Windows XP machine).   Just a short entry to let everyone (and the search engines) know that I've updated my comprehensive WAMP guide so it now covers PHP version 5.2.3. I always had a help file on how to upgrade to 5.2.3 at the end anyway, but now that 5.2.3 is officially released I updated the core guide to reflect this.   This tutorial is a "comprehensive guide to installing and running Apache 2.2.4 with PHP 4.4.7 and PHP 5.2.3 on Windows XP. It covers all of the steps in detail with lots of screen grabs so you can follow the process visually."
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When you're a UK company trying to buy US computer gear Microsoft's shameless assumption of a 1:1 exchange rate when re-pricing Vista for the UK market brought back memories of the bad old days when most IT companies simply swapped the dollar sign for a pound sign when preparing their UK price lists.â¦
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SEATTLE _ Ever get one of those e-mails purporting that Starbucks doesn't support U.S.
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Nessa has two posts that talk about how to use PHP to display the versions of software running on the local machine.   I've been working on this application for work that does some simple server reporting, part of which involves displaying the versions of major software running on the machines. [...] I need to be aware of this to make sure that customers are being moved to servers with compatible versions. It's also good in tracking and planning upgrades.   In the first post she recommends using the exec function in PHP to run system commands to get things like the cpanel version, python version and what perl you have installed.   Part two shows a little bit different way to get some of the same information - using the data in the /proc/version file as a single resource to get OS information.
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SHANGHAI - U.S. officials earlier this month denied visas to four representatives of a group developing China's WAPI (Wireless LAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure) security protocol for wireless networks, raising questions in China about the U.S. government's commitment to greater Chinese involvement in setting technical standards.ADVERTISEMENTSolaris 10(TM) OS: Position your business ten moves ahead.Solaris 10 OS has arrived and provides even more reasons for the world's most demanding businesses to operate on this, the leading UNIX platform. Like the fact you can run Linux and Solaris applications side-by-side and run the same OS on SPARC(R), AMD Opteron(TM), and Intel processor-based systems. Discover more reasons and how Solaris 10 OS can move your business ahead today.
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Does virtualisation = energy savings? No, not "valley" as in John Ford's 1941 classic movie based on Richard Llewellyn's 1939 best-seller about a close-knit, hard-working Welsh coal-mining family at the turn of the twentieth century. Nor "vampires" as in the somewhat less classic episode from the Masters of Horror TV series that introduced the "V-word" concept. It's not even the euphemism increasingly being used to avoid saying "Vietnam" when analysing current events in Iraq.â¦
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John Mertic's made even more updates to the Windows installer he's been working on - this time, he's enhanced the install with a web server selection tool.   I've updated the Installer with the following changes:  Added a dedicated dialog for selecting your Web Server Moved the dialog to pick the Apache conf folder into the installer itself    There's also a screenshot of this new feature to give you an idea of what the support will look like. This latest update can be downloaded here.
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It's interesting to see that Malaysia is one of the few countries where IIS is dominant. But it's not a big surprise because Microsoft is very strongly entrenched in the Malaysian IT mindset, definitely more so than in Europe or US. And although i'm a long-time IIS supporter, these figures have made me realize that we don't really care either way. A rough mental count tells me that 30% of our websites are on IIS, and 70% on Apache.    Rank Country Apache% IIS%   1 Japan 73 9   2= Indonesia 70 23   2= Korea 70 25   - Global average 67 21   4= Philippines 60 24   4= New Zealand 60 30    6 Pakistan 57 28   7= Thailand 54 38   7= Australia 54 38    9 Taiwan 47 46   10 Singapore 45 40   11 Malaysia 42 51   12 India 41 49   13 China 35 56
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Latest PECL Releases:timezonedb 2007.3ingres 1.4.3pdflib 2.1.3
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TechWeb - Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom now all have local versions of YouTube.
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TOKYO -- A U.S.-based network security expert claimed he was censored by Japanese government officials when he attempted to give a speech in Tokyo last week about problems with the nation's controversial online citizen registry network, called Juki Net.ADVERTISEMENTSolaris 10(TM) OS: Position your business ten moves ahead.Solaris 10 OS has arrived and provides even more reasons for the world's most demanding businesses to operate on this, the leading UNIX platform. Like the fact you can run Linux and Solaris applications side-by-side and run the same OS on SPARC(R), AMD Opteron(TM), and Intel processor-based systems. Discover more reasons and how Solaris 10 OS can move your business ahead today.
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Bidirectional virtualisation is virtually there The possibilities for recursive virtualisation have just increased, with Novell and Intel announcing that you can now run Windows unmodified on Novell's SUSE Linux, via Xen and an Intel VT-capable processor, while Microsoft says an upcoming service pack will let its Virtual Server run SUSE Linux as a virtualised guest.â¦
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This is release 0.3.1 of ReactOS, an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003).   Mainly, the work focused on rewriting certain parts of the ReactOS Core (kernel, HAL, bootloader, etc). Read through the changelog, and you will see the amount of changes in this release!  Please don't forget this is an alpha-stage operating system, which means it is not suitable to replace your main OS. Also, this release is aimed to be run mostly in virtualizers / emulators (like QEmu, VMWare, Parallels, etc): because of the big amount of changes, our development team was not able to test/fix all problems which arise when running ReactOS on real hardware.  Press-release: http://www.reactos.org/en/news_page_34.html  Changelog: http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/ChangeLog-0.3.1  Download packages are here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6553&package_id=6629&release_id=492696  ReactOS website: http://www.reactos.org
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This might be a big geeky but my favorite UNIX directory is /etc.  Whats yours? /proc? /usr/local is pretty good?  There always good stuff in /var!  What about /tmp?