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2008-11-19

Compiling Kompozer for Solaris

The first attempt to compile Kompozer for Solaris

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Posted by AlekZ @ 4.11 pm :: No comments
Categories:Applications, Solaris
Tags: html-editor, Kompozer, Solaris

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2008-11-11

External searching in mybb

Sometimes you need to integrate web-pages with corresponding forum threads. Here’s one of the way to do it.

<?php
$keywords=”MyBB integration”; // The search keywords
?>
<!– The path to mybb search.php –>

<form method=”post” action=”http://www.yoursite.com/mybb/search.php”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”action” value=”do_search” />
<input type=”hidden” name=”keywords” value=”<?php echo $keywords; ?>” />
<!– search titles only –>
<input type=”hidden” name=”postthread” value=”2″ />
<!– Search in all forums –>
<input type=”hidden” name=”forums[]” size=”15″ multiple=”multiple” value=”all”>
<!– All dates –>
<input type=”hidden” name=”postdate” value=”0″>
<input type=”hidden” name=”pddir” value=”1″ />
<input type=”hidden” name=”sortby” value=”lastpost”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”sortordr” value=”asc” />
<!– the result will be threads, not posts –>
<input type=”hidden” name=”showresults” value=”threads” />
<input type=”submit” class=”button” name=”submit” value=”Forum” />
</form>

Posted by AlekZ @ 8.10 pm :: No comments
Categories:Applications, Web-design
Tags: forum, integration, mybb, search, Web-design

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2008-10-02

Heian Godan - tutorial and bunkai

Heian Godan by Hirokazu Kanazawa and Luca Valdesi
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Posted by AlekZ @ 2.09 pm :: No comments
Categories:Applications, Sport, Video
Tags: bunkai, Heian Godan, Hirokazu Kanazawa, Karate, Kata, Luca Valdesi, Shotokan, tutorial, Video

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2008-09-26

Short script for searching mail logs

Today I had to search through dozens of mail logs (syslog) located on several mail relays and find all entries related to a particular user.

Given:

All servers are managed via a remote tty console,
The ksh-script must be copy&pasteable
All logs are gzipped
I need all entries with the same message number (the ninth field) as the found log entry

This is what I came up with:

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Posted by AlekZ @ 12.31 am :: No comments
Categories:Applications, Solaris
Tags: log, mail, script, syslog

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2008-09-21

Wine 1.1.5 for Solaris

Wine 1.1.5 is out. So are new compiling errors:

gmake[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/wine-1.1.5/dlls/cryptnet’
gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -D__WINESRC__ -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -Wall -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wwrite-strings -Wpointer-arith -O2 -o cryptnet_main.o cryptnet_main.c
In file included from cryptnet_main.c:31:
../../include/winbase.h:1518: error: syntax error before “va_list”
../../include/winbase.h:1519: error: syntax error before “va_list”
gmake[2]: *** [cryptnet_main.o] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/wine-1.1.5/dlls/cryptnet’
gmake[1]: *** [cryptnet] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/wine-1.1.5/dlls’
gmake: *** [dlls] Error 2

The thing is, wine/debug.h must be included before any other win*.h headers in dlls/cryptnet/cryptnet_main.c

$ more dlls/cryptnet/cryptnet_main.c
. . .
#include “wine/debug.h”
#include “windef.h”
#include “winbase.h”
#include “winnt.h”
#include “winnls.h”
#include “wininet.h”
#include “objbase.h”
#define CERT_REVOCATION_PARA_HAS_EXTRA_FIELDS
#include “wincrypt.h”
. . .

Posted by AlekZ @ 3.28 pm :: 2 comments
Categories:Wine
Tags: nevada, Solaris, Wine

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2008-09-20

DNS, IP, AS, whois etc testers

Squish DNS (A, SOA, CNAME, NS, PTR, AAAA. ANY) tester
DNS-OARC Web-based DNS randomness test
Robtex RBL Realtime Block List, Domain Name Server records, IP Reverse DNS, C-Network, Domain
Whois, Route, AS Analysis, DNS graphs
DNSstuff IP, whois, country IP, traceroute, VectorTrace, DNS traversal, Speed tests, HTML validator
What’s my IP IP, DNS, whois, traceroute testers, port scanner
w3dt DNS lookup, DNS traversal, PortScan, trace route, RBL check, MTU route, NTP test, remote process list

Posted by AlekZ @ 7.18 pm :: 2 comments
Categories:Applications
Tags: DNS, MX, PTR, test, traceroute, validator, whois

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2008-09-02

CAPTCHA’s and phpBB

“Easy for bots, difficult for humans”. Not that it was the idea behind Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart. The proper test should:

work properly out of the box
work regardless of language settings
be solvable for almost all humans
and few Bots

But what about the implementations? Read about CAPTCHA’s here.

Posted by AlekZ @ 11.13 pm :: No comments
Categories:Applications
Tags: CAPTCHA, Links, phpBB

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2008-08-31

SqueezeCenter again. Testing v7.3

SqueezeCenter 7.2 is officially out and not interesting anymore ;-) Let’s have a look at version 7.3 which has a new streaming service. In this test I downloaded SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975.ZIP from here.

The first attempt to start the server (after unpacking and “chmod“-ding) gave me this error:

# ./slimserver.pl
The following modules failed to load: YAML::Syck

To download and compile them, please run: /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl YAML::Syck

Exiting..

The “built-in” build-perl-modules.pl failed to install the CPAN module:

# /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl YAML::Syck
Welcome to the Slim Devices perl module installer.

These packages are needed for SqueezeCenter to function.
You will need a C compiler (gcc), make, and perl installed.

You will need development libraries for MySQL. eg: libmysqlclient

You will need development libraries for expat. eg: libexpat1-dev

*** Ignore any warnings about AppConfig. ***

Please enter a perl binary to use (defaults to /usr/bin/perl)
This must be the same perl binary that you ran this program with –>
Please enter a directory to download files to –>
Downloads will use lwp to fetch tarballs.

Downloading YAML-Syck-0.64.tar.gz to: /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975
Something looks wrong - I couldn’t read /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/YAML-Syck-0.64.tar.gz, which I just downloaded.
Uncompressing..
sh: YAML-Syck-0.64.tar.gz: cannot open
tar: blocksize = 0
Couldn’t change to YAML-Syck-0.64 : No such file or directory at /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl line 226, line 2.

So, I decided to go the old way and get rid of the supplied with SqueezeCenter CPAN directory.

# mv CPAN CPAN-orig

… update YAML::Syck just in case…

# perl -MCPAN -e shell
. . .
cpan[1]> install YAML::Syck
YAML::Syck is up to date (1.05).
#

… and start the server again …

# ./slimserver.pl
Can’t locate Encode/Detect/Detector.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/CPAN/arch/5.8/i86pc-solaris-64int /opt/csw/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/CPAN/arch/5.8/i86pc-solaris-64int/auto /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/CPAN/arch/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/CPAN/arch/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int/auto /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/CPAN/arch/5.8/i86pc-solaris-64int /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/CPAN/arch/5.8/i86pc-solaris-64int/auto /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/CPAN/arch/i86pc-solaris-64int /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/lib /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/CPAN /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975 /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975 /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/i86pc-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/perl5/site_perl /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Slim/Utils/Unicode.pm line 40.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Slim/Utils/Unicode.pm line 40.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Slim/Utils/Prefs/Namespace.pm line 30.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Slim/Utils/Prefs/Namespace.pm line 30.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Slim/Utils/Prefs.pm line 81.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /usr/local/SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Slim/Utils/Prefs.pm line 81.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/slimserver/slimserver.pl line 146.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /usr/local/slimserver/slimserver.pl line 146.

This error looks familiar. And after commenting line 40 in SqueezeCenter-7.3-22975/Slim/Utils/Unicode.pm (#use Encode::Detect::Detector; ) the server came alive and immediately updated the firmware of the Transporter to version 62.