Re: [SLUG] escaping apostrophies in php/mysql
It could be that your old server had magic_quotes_gpc turned on in your php.ini. Rich On 31/01/2008, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a PHP/MySQL custom CMS from a little while ago; > the original developer is no longer available, > > recently, I've upgraded server from RH73 MySQL 3.x > to Centos 4.x MySQL 4.1.22 > > now, on the new server, the user can not save any edited text that > contains apostrophies (the existing text contains apostropies 'from > before') > > could that be the MySQL collation that's the problem...? > > actual collation is 'utf8_general_ci', should I change it to 'latin1' > ?(which I guess MySQL 3.x was) > > > > > -- > Voytek > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Rich Buggy http://www.buggy.id.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] escaping apostrophies in php/mysql
On Jan 30, 2008 10:05 PM, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a PHP/MySQL custom CMS from a little while ago; > the original developer is no longer available, > > recently, I've upgraded server from RH73 MySQL 3.x > to Centos 4.x MySQL 4.1.22 > > now, on the new server, the user can not save any edited text that > contains apostrophies (the existing text contains apostropies 'from > before') > > could that be the MySQL collation that's the problem...? > > actual collation is 'utf8_general_ci', should I change it to 'latin1' > ?(which I guess MySQL 3.x was) I smell a SQL injection vulnerability. You should be escaping all your user input so that your database queries are well-formed. At this very moment, someone could probably corrupt or steal all your data via some crafted SQL input. Let me guess, you had a guy with the last name "O'Keefe" -- and this is how it all started? -- Kristian Erik Hermansen "Know something about everything and everything about something." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] escaping apostrophies in php/mysql
I have a PHP/MySQL custom CMS from a little while ago; the original developer is no longer available, recently, I've upgraded server from RH73 MySQL 3.x to Centos 4.x MySQL 4.1.22 now, on the new server, the user can not save any edited text that contains apostrophies (the existing text contains apostropies 'from before') could that be the MySQL collation that's the problem...? actual collation is 'utf8_general_ci', should I change it to 'latin1' ?(which I guess MySQL 3.x was) -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] French police take up linux
May be old news to some, but just in case :) http://news.smh.com.au/french-police-deal-blow-to-microsoft/20080130-1p2v.html "The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest administrations in the world to make the break." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] how to build a custom keyboard map in Gnome?
* Sonia Hamilton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'd like to build a custom keymap for Gnome that is a combination of the > 'US English' layout and some of the 'Spain' layout - anyone know how I'd > do that? > Have a look at a previous slug discussion: http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/03/msg00131.html The pt1 keymap is also at http://a440.com.au/font. If you are using debian, the keymaps are now located at /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols rather than /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols In any case, consulting man setxkbmap should give the location of the keymaps on your system. It might take a few tries one evening. At least you don't have to fork out over $100 to some 3rd party vendor of of keymap creation utility as with Windows. Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] BWOI: Hi
Could only be COBOL - a spam engine wouldn´t be so creative. Scary thought: Visual COBOL++ On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 08:27 +, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > Good grief! Is this output from some spam engine's scanning of the list > or is it the effect of writing COBOL on a human being's brain? > > -- > Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > www.rumble.net > > The Tourist Engineer > Because geeks travel too. > http://engineer.openguides.org/ > > "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long > plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men > die like dogs. There's also a negative side." > - Source unknown, often erroniously attributed to Hunter S. Thompson -- Sonia Hamilton blog: http://SoniaHamilton.wordpress.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] how to build a custom keyboard map in Gnome?
I'd like to build a custom keymap for Gnome that is a combination of the 'US English' layout and some of the 'Spain' layout - anyone know how I'd do that? Reason - I'm in Spanish speaking country at the moment therefore I'm always flipping between English & Spanish layouts, which is a pain. Also the 'Spain' layout scrambles all the punctuation characters so I can never find them. What I'd like to have is the 'US English' layout with only two additions: * Ctrl-Shift-; produces ñ * ' followed by a vowel (or if easier, a letter) produces an accented character eg á é í ó ú, but ' followed by ' produces ' and not ´ I know about the other English variants like International and Dead Keys, but they don´t do exactly what I want :-) Thanks for any pointers, -- Sonia Hamilton blog: http://SoniaHamilton.wordpress.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] HA Active/Passive Firewall - with TCP and NAT tracking
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:14:43PM +1100, Greg Cockburn wrote: > On 30/01/2008, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:49:50AM +1100, Greg Cockburn wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I want to know if it is possible to share/track TCP/VPN(IPSEC)/NAT > > > connections between 2 Linux hosts. > > > > > > At home I have a great Firewall. It runs LEAF Bering uClibc 3.X / > > OPENSWAN > > > / OPENVPN. It is great. > > > > > > At work I have 2 Cisco PIX running in a failover mode Active/Passive, > > and > > > those pix share VPN, TCP and NAT information, so that when > > > they failover from the active to the passive node, no one notices. > > > > > > Is this possible to do in Linux? > > I believe the netfilter guys have just recently released something to > > allow for > > the sharing of connection information between 2 linux box for HA of linux > > firewall's > > > > check outthe netfilter web site > > > Alex, > > good thinking! > > This looks like it: > http://people.netfilter.org/pablo/conntrack-tools/testcase.html yep > > Thanks, > Greg. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- "It's good to see so many friends here in the Rose Garden. This is our first event in this beautiful spot, and it's appropriate we talk about policy that will affect people's lives in a positive way in such a beautiful, beautiful part of our national -- really, our national park system, my guess is you would want to call it." - George W. Bush 02/08/2001 Washington, DC signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] HA Active/Passive Firewall - with TCP and NAT tracking
On 30/01/2008, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:49:50AM +1100, Greg Cockburn wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I want to know if it is possible to share/track TCP/VPN(IPSEC)/NAT > > connections between 2 Linux hosts. > > > > At home I have a great Firewall. It runs LEAF Bering uClibc 3.X / > OPENSWAN > > / OPENVPN. It is great. > > > > At work I have 2 Cisco PIX running in a failover mode Active/Passive, > and > > those pix share VPN, TCP and NAT information, so that when > > they failover from the active to the passive node, no one notices. > > > > Is this possible to do in Linux? > I believe the netfilter guys have just recently released something to > allow for > the sharing of connection information between 2 linux box for HA of linux > firewall's > > check outthe netfilter web site > Alex, good thinking! This looks like it: http://people.netfilter.org/pablo/conntrack-tools/testcase.html Thanks, Greg. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] HA Active/Passive Firewall - with TCP and NAT tracking
On 30/01/2008, at 11:49 AM, Greg Cockburn wrote: Hi all, I want to know if it is possible to share/track TCP/VPN(IPSEC)/NAT connections between 2 Linux hosts. At home I have a great Firewall. It runs LEAF Bering uClibc 3.X / OPENSWAN / OPENVPN. It is great. At work I have 2 Cisco PIX running in a failover mode Active/ Passive, and those pix share VPN, TCP and NAT information, so that when they failover from the active to the passive node, no one notices. Is this possible to do in Linux? I don't know, but you should be able to do it with CARP on OpenBSD or FreeBSD. pfsense is one possibility. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] BWOI: Hi
On 30/01/2008, at 6:27 PM, Bruce Bruen wrote: Now, how shall I start, history or interest, disinterest or hosiery, confounding interest or hijacking ... Historical details : Bjorn - sometime in the last century on a small planet called RANRL located temporarily near (actually on) Rushcutters Bay, mother PDP 1120, pater GT40, schooling: mainly startrek, lunar lander and a strangely absorbing little diversion called "adventure". But, seriously, I mean it, s-e-r-i-o- u-s-l-y, supposedly writing A2D fourier transforms for the sonar group. Hello, sailor! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] BWOI: Hi
This one time, at band camp, Rick Welykochy wrote: > Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > > >Good grief! Is this output from some spam engine's scanning of the list > >or is it the effect of writing COBOL on a human being's brain? > > I suspect ADHD and Ritalin. Not enough Ritalin or too much? -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Warning - Contains nuts! - On a packet of peanuts -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] BWOI: Hi
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: Good grief! Is this output from some spam engine's scanning of the list or is it the effect of writing COBOL on a human being's brain? I suspect ADHD and Ritalin. -rw -- _ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Any sufficiently advanced technology seems like magic. -- Arthur C. Namesake -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] BWOI: Hi
Bruce, > but what I want to know is this > > > Has anyone interest in VirtualBox? I have so much fun with it today that - > oh > damn I've run out of ex-whatitsnames, its' so good! > > But then again there's always questions. Has anyone surgically played with > this? > Yes I have played with it a lot in the last 12 months. I reckon it is the best - usual German efficiency and thoroughness. The most interesting deploy was a server running CentOS 5 with VB driving Windows Server 2003 in the background. Totally invisible to anyone accessing the Linux box but otherwise appearing to the MS boxes as a Win2003 server running "aux naturelle". This product blows me away. The doco's are good too. The above deploy was the result of a customer ordering a Linux file server and then after delivery, configuration and commit, decided that they needed to run some Windows tax packages on the server. So CentOS does the file serving, backups, mail, web and server 2003 dribbles along in VB in behind running the tax packages. A bit strange but everyone is happy and the whole thing is configured to start VB in the background automatically on boot and then server 2003 auto starts. It has been three months and not a service call needed. Rick Phillips -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] BWOI: Hi
Good grief! Is this output from some spam engine's scanning of the list or is it the effect of writing COBOL on a human being's brain? -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Source unknown, often erroniously attributed to Hunter S. Thompson -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] BWOI: Hi
Now, how shall I start, history or interest, disinterest or hosiery, confounding interest or hijacking ... Historical details : Bjorn - sometime in the last century on a small planet called RANRL located temporarily near (actually on) Rushcutters Bay, mother PDP 1120, pater GT40, schooling: mainly startrek, lunar lander and a strangely absorbing little diversion called "adventure". But, seriously, I mean it, s-e-r-i-o-u-s-l-y, supposedly writing A2D fourier transforms for the sonar group. Bread - still in the prior generation, at a small campus in a disused sheep paddock that someone had given the name "ANU" to. Taught me all I needed to know for a career in IT. In retrospect, it should have taken them 15 minutes. Notwithstanding, a higher calling presented itself - the DOD, unfortunately I only lasted 3 days until a MUCH higher calling anounced itself with much heralding and a phone call even. Kneaded - cutting COBOL 70 real time (oh, ok, ok, ""online"") systems for the Victorian Cytology Service (read Pap smear, patient record system, 196K, 300Mb Eagle drive, and an operating system officially called Vortex but colloqually known as Whirlpool in that it sucked everyone in). Raised - normal cutter, sysanl, architech, projekt mismanager, banking, wanking, dividend franking etc etc. Knocked down (1991) - bugger, I "knew" 8086 was gunna be big, but I stuck to my mismanagement aspirations and became a - gasp - consultant. Strategy, politic, smategy and politik. Finally, the big day came ... "your sacked". Rested, re-raised and baked - I have spent the last ten years having a great deal of joy in destroying the dreams and aspirations of designers and coders. In other words I am a tester. And its fun. Howsoever, why do write this coredump. Agha! If you've got this far then here comes the interest Currently, (could change tomorrow) I've got ... small private lan with 7 P-II/III/IV series Intels running Mandriva, PClinuxOS and liveboots coyote firewall in front of the lot on a diskless, headless and handless (ogh Gawdknows, its been running for 4 years? probably a "MX" something) most, if not all the workboxes are going to go to PCLOS (I am impressed!) but what I want to know is this Has anyone interest in VirtualBox? I have so much fun with it today that - oh damn I've run out of ex-whatitsnames, its' so good! But then again there's always questions. Has anyone surgically played with this? -- regards bruce -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
