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PHP applications code quality - --==[FReeZ]==--

--==[FReeZ]==-- — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:26:35 +0200

I absolutely agree with what's been written in this article. Most PHP developers are not experienced and possibly never will be, since they don't learn, don't read, but write only.

They usually produce very awful code, sometimes I wonder and ask myself how can that even work, but then I realize it's not really working, so only HTML and CSS makes it looking so, while error reporting has been suppressed to lower levels (without E_NOTICE | E_STRICT). .

A person without good knowledge of assembler or C / C++ cannot be a good programmer in any language, including simple hypertext preprocessor and javascript.

PHP applications code quality - jd

jd — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:48:35 +0100

Well, that's sad most of you fall into that huge troll blindly.

Do not read this post at first degree, and read between the lines, guys.

Obviously there is great applications in PHP. I do work in a company writing PHP apps all the day, and I really do not think what my coworkers do every day is crap.

Good developers do good code, whatever the language they're using, no one will tell you the opposite.

But, lots of newbie developers come in with PHP and learn with that and then do puslish crappy code.

Why they learn with PHP ? Because da Web 2.0 time obviously.

Alex did a pretty good analyse, I'd just add that PHP gives you enough rope to hang you and all your family (server) in the ride (again hello SQL injection, XSS etc.) if you do not care.
And you do NOT HAVE TO care.

Make an error in C, it'll segfault. That at least learns you to "think before writing" when you begin.

PHP does not learn people to think before writing; and that's not bad if you're a good developer.

But if you are a newbie, beginning your coding experience with PHP like some (I use "some" to not tell "many") people I know did, you will do crap, no matter what.

PHP applications code quality - djdarkman

djdarkman — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:30:24 +0100

PHP is an easy and powerfull language, it`s stupid to critisize it for being easy and powerfull.

Whining about type conversion all day, doesn`t make your preffered language any better than php.

Yes there are weak minded PHP developers, but there are also weak minded C, Perl, Ruby, Java , Python .... etc. developers also.

Get over it, PHP can do things that other languaes don`t.

"do not use functions but include() multiple times thousand of files and then do not close/free anything."

That`s not true, you looked at one code then you generalize it. And did you hear of garbage collection? or did you hear that an averave PHP script runs less than a second and after it`s execution all memory is freed? freeing memory during runtime is so pointless, uses extra CPU cycles, get over it PHP is for web not for client side apps.

"Well, take as example what we would do with Python and GTK+ if they were like PHP and HTML"

HTML is not GTK and never will be this example is invalid. By the way it`s a very greate excuse for GTK`s brain damaged API.

"I guess that's primarily the language fault."

Languagees don`t write bad code, people do.

"It permits to do a lot of stuff and does not simplify, help nor force the simplest implementation methods like MVC which should be the base in Web developement."

It does simplify everything, but if you don`t like it write your own classes that force people (who can`t program without forcing) to program the right way.

Please don`t post any more posts likt these, because it`s a ridicilous comparism that doesn`t prove anything, remember:

Languagees don`t write bad code, people do.

PHP applications code quality - wow

wow — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:52:38 +0100

Wow, by reading this article, it looks you are one of the best developers in the world.

"It's so easy to do bad code that lot of people coming from nowhere and who did not learn anything from other languages are doing it."

That *hurts* you in some way? Don't use that code, man! Congratulations for being so ego-centric.

PHP applications code quality - Yamakasi

Yamakasi — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:05:34 +0100

Well... another "elite" developer rant about a low entry language.... Nothing new here

Erich is very tiring in this regard, don't follow the same path.

It's not in the language, its in the developer

PHP applications code quality - Pierre

Pierre — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:28:43 +0100

Juste une note, proner le libre et appliquer la censure n'est pas vraiment tres coherent. Enfin, les filtres dans mon feed read sont pratiques, planet-debian ne sera que plus interessant.

PHP applications code quality - Alex

Alex — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:22:08 +0100

Like C, PHP gives you enough rope to hang yourself. Just be glad it's not like Visual Basic, which gives you enough rope to shoot yourself. My biggest gripe is its utter disregard for types, which enables the above-mentioned randomly-typed data. That, and the fact that the older mysql interface will close connections if the script crashes, but the newer, otherwise-nicer mysqli will not. And the lack of support for prepared queries (hello, SQL injection). I could probably complain about PHP for hours on end. I am currently developing a web app in PHP, and my experiences could probably be published in a book entitled "Object-Oriented Programming and Clean Design in a Hostile Environment".

PHP applications code quality - Jeff Bailey

Jeff Bailey — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:23:19 +0100

I got a chance to do a php contract and do a maintainable job of it. The language doesn't make it easy. Zendcframework helps, so does the eclipse php plugin.

If you want to see the result, look at the groupus project on launchpad.

Like any codebase, there are lots of places where we just didnt manage to finish a transition. Overall, the code is clean enough to show the outside world.

Time < work - jd

jd — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:24:54 +0100

it will come with awesome 2.0-rc1.

Time < work - Dave

Dave — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:50:15 +0100

I'm looking forward to awesome in Debian!

awesome developement - xorg62

xorg62 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:02:58 +0100

salut
j'utilise awesome depuis plus d'un mois et
et je trouve ça genial !

continue a l'ameliorer comme ça tu fait du super boulot !

awesome developement - Sylphe

Sylphe — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:16:26 +0100

Je teste awesome depuis seulement 4 jours et j'ai l'impression d'avoir enfin trouvé le wm qui me convient.

Donc merci à toi et aux contributeurs, le développement prend de belles voies.

git statistics? - jd

jd — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:02:02 +0200

I use gdgraph with Python

git statistics? - Iñaki

Iñaki — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:51:49 +0200

Hi Julien, I'm using GD::Graph (with perl) but I could learn some python to use a decent library for the graphs. Thanks for all

git statistics? - jd

jd — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:21:23 +0200

Iñaki, as said, I wrote that in 10 minutes with Python

Thomas, gitstats is a pain to install... SQL beh!

git statistics? - Thomas Bleher

Thomas Bleher — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:35:14 +0200

You may want to look at http://tree.celinuxforum.org/gitsta...

git statistics? - Iñaki

Iñaki — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:57:04 +0200

Nice graph!! What app do you used to generate it? I'm looking something similar.

Greetings!!

awesome - Mafiou

Mafiou — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:14:07 +0200

I know this guy for about ten years so I'm not surprised. Since then, he's been LEGEN ... wait for it ... DARY.

awesome - jay

jay — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:13:44 +0200

"there's no stupid limit on its source size, we have features we want."

I never understood why imposing an arbitrary source code size limit would help quality; congrats to this decision

awesome - Arthur

Arthur — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:43:18 +0200

A very good wm and a good replacement for my dwm, awesome!

awesome - jd

jd — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:17:33 +0200

Not yet because of a dependency problem

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...

awesome - Nelson A. de Oliveira

Nelson A. de Oliveira — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:45:59 +0200

Debian package, please?

Window manager sucks - jd

jd — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:28:04 +0200

Ok. I've forked dwm yesterday finally.

Window manager sucks - curson

curson — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:52:11 +0200

Try DWM, you won't be disappointed.
It takes a little to get acquainted with it, but it's very addictive and 100% customizable

Window manager sucks - Geoffroy Carrier

Geoffroy Carrier — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:15:19 +0200

I have to agree about dwm. It just rocks.

Window manager sucks - Corsac

Corsac — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:08:19 +0200

just use xfwm4

Window manager sucks - Kai Hendry

Kai Hendry — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:43:39 +0200

http://www.suckless.org/wiki/

dwm is a good window manager

On media players, xmms and audacious - ttm

ttm — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:06:44 +0200

MPD ? (Music Player Daemon)

large choice of clients...

http://musicpd.org

On media players, xmms and audacious - romain

romain — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:38:08 +0200

beep-media-player ?

On media players, xmms and audacious - Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:31:55 +0200

Random suggestion: Quod Libet works very well with huge music libraries. It also has excellent search, which would address your desire to just load your entire playlist and jump to a song you want.

On media players, xmms and audacious - samvais

samvais — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:53:54 +0200

too bad if xmms is going away. it's my only option when I use my Logitech wireless usb-soundcard ( Bus 003 Device 006: ID 0b7a:0100 Zeevo, Inc.) since so far I haven't found another music player that can chooce the output device without running alsaconf or changing the default output device for all sound. I want my music player to stream the music to my stereos and iceweasel et al to play their sound on my laptop. I admit that exaile and rhythmbox are much more versatile and modern than xmms, I wish there was a way to chooce the sound output in every player.

What a real RC bug squasher must have - Bernd

Bernd — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:16:52 +0200

Is it also possible to use a complete directory instead of a single image?

Would be nice to have small random pictures on the desktop.

Why you won't use MySQL/ndb - jd

jd — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:25:59 +0200

For now I have not been able to reproduce the bug, so I keep my fingers crossed

Why you won't use MySQL/ndb - Stewart Smith

Stewart Smith — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:42:57 +0200

There have been a good number of bug fixes in the gap between .31 and .41 for NDB, so .41 will no doubt end up being a lot better.

I haven't seen the bug you describe before... so perhaps it's something related to the debian package. (certainly report it to the debian BTS, debian packaging of MySQL is fairly good..).

Certainly if you can repeat it with .41, we'll get right on it... as it would certainly be a new bug.

FTP TLS client ?! - Alex

Alex — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:45:31 +0200

CrossFTP, a multi-tabbed GUI FTP client with standard (free) and pro version at http://www.crossftp.com/

FTP TLS client ?! - poof65

poof65 — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:35:39 +0000

Fireftp, a firefox plugin support tls/ssl ftp connection. Filezilla v2 under wine too.

How to turn your flat into a night club - Michaël

Michaël — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:03:57 +0000

esd belongs to esound package, and esd(mon|cat) to esound-clients package.

For mplayer the option is "-ao esd".

mod_defensible 1.1 - Nico

Nico — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:37:57 +0000

Hum, ça a l'air sympa, je le met en test

Creating a FLAN - obi

obi — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:53:16 +0000

Yes, this works and been doing it for years, first with vtun, now with openvpn. I've got two sites and a couple of roaming laptops glued together like that.

The downsides are:

because everything is bridged, adding redundant paths to reduce hops/latency doesn't really help. STP will elect one path and that's it - it won't try to find the shortest path or anything. If you're only wiring two nodes together of course this doesn't matter.
it's more of a pain to block out traffic (like dhcp requests from the other side) - ebtables works, but has some rough edges.

Kicking out Web spammers with DNSBL - Gonéri

Gonéri — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:47:33 +0000

mod_access_rbl2 can be used for this:

order allow,deny allow from all deny via rbl.maps.vix.com

How to turn your flat into a night club - jd

jd — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:06:39 +0000

Thanks for the tip!

How to turn your flat into a night club - nobody

nobody — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:01:25 +0000

that solution doesn't deal with freq deviations between your soundcards. You better use PulseAudio (it's an esound drop-in) and its module-combine.

Subversion fsfs migration - ptecza

ptecza — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:46:22 +0000

Hi,

At first, thanks a lot for the useful hint and your hard work for Debian project!

It seems that `svnadmin dump` command doesn't dump your hooks and conf. Please see <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#bdb-fsfs-convert">SVN FAQ</a>, if you don't believe me

So, my advice is: compare conf for both back-ends and copy your old BDB hooks to new FSFS repository.

Funny easter eggs! - Alden Bates

Alden Bates — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:54:23 +0000

Cute. I got that just now while downloading files from my server. I thought I was going nuts.

What a real RC bug squasher must have - Alex Medina

Alex Medina — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:19:44 +0000

Thanks, you save me a lot of time.

The man who did not know he had an amd64 - Julien

Julien — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:51:51 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for your detailed explanations!

It is a really strange feeling...

Cheers, Julien

The man who did not know he had an amd64 - jd

jd — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:38:58 +0000

Hello Julien !

You're right, lm means 'long mode', so you're machine is an amd64 too! Welcome to my life!

IA64 are Itanium processors, not Pentium, and are real 64 bits processor AFAIK.

If you have 'lm' flag, it means that you have support fort 64 bits instructions, like AMD processors have.

"amd64" arch is the name of the arch, but it also support em64t processor like we have. Take a look on: http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/

I am not sure which improvement it can gives to you on a desktop machine, especially that you may have problem with something like proprietary Flash player (it does not exists for other arch than i386). Anyway such limitation can be bypassed by using a i386 chroot (32 bit code (i386) is executable with amd64 architecture).

If you want to know why it's better take a look : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 or http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD64 (french)

Cheers.

The man who did not know he had an amd64 - Julien

Julien — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:39:55 +0000

Hi,

Just wondering how what you think is a Pentium 4 can be and amd64? I have just checked my cpuinfo and discovered the same thing on my main machine!

lm means "long mode", ie. 64 bits instructions support, am I right? But how do you know it is amd64 (which I would have considered to be only for AMD processors), and not IA64?

I think I have understood that amd64 is also for EM64T processors. EM64T processors are the newer 64bits architecture from Intel, thus I can guess that any recent processor is amd64 and not EM64T...

I am quite lost with that.

What are the improvements in such cases? Do you think it is really worth "reinstalling" a desktop machine?

Cheers, Julien

[ping] What a real RC bug squasher must have - tempurpedic

tempurpedic — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:08:05 +0000

tempurpedic

Wie du tausend "real RC bug" fur eine alte Version von Xen 3 erhalten konntest behauptend, von Firefox zu sein, und behauptend, von einer BBC RSS Zufuhr verwiesen zu werden...

Colon - erich

erich — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:13:16 +0000

history 1 | grep scp | grep ::

 481  scp tags-uitoolkit::gtk.json legolas:homepage/dojo/
 482  scp ./tags-uitoolkit::gtk.json legolas:homepage/dojo/

When playing around with the new debtags cloud interface, I ran into exactly this problem. My second try worked.

Colon - Mind Booster Noori

Mind Booster Noori — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:29:02 +0000

The trick is to know where you're using the : character. If it's a remote file there's no problem and no need of escaping since you preceded already by an :. Example:

scp me@my.machine.com:a:a.txt .

If it's a local file you just have to say it explicitly by expressing a path. Example:

scp ./a:a.txt me@my.machine.com:

This works for me at least on OpenSSH 4.3.

Colon - Mick

Mick — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:11:57 +0000

After retesting looks like I didn't need to escape the colon!

Colon - Mick

Mick — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:10:47 +0000

I created a file named file:1:

touch "file:1" To scp it from one server to another one needs to escape the :

i.e.

scp server1:/tmp/file\:1 /tmp/

Colon - kitlaan

kitlaan — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:50:06 +0000

scp ./foo:bar user@host:

Blah - jd

jd — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:54:03 +0000

No it should works on channels too. At least it works for me

Blah - kim

kim — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:58:54 +0000

It only works on private msg, is that intended?

Blah - Np237

Np237 — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:15:04 +0000

This is much less efficient that wmcoincoin's features, especially the plopification mode.

Asta La Vista - edouard

edouard — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:17:27 +0000

oui mais Windows Vista il tue tout Enfin il paraît...en fait on lui souhaite... bon d'accord c'est pour redynamiser le marché de l'informatique

Subversion fsfs migration - Nicolás César

Nicolás César — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:22:31 +0000

Thanks a lot for the simple instructions!!! my svn developers (that's me and a friend) now live happier.

My first experience… with python - zoso

zoso — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:59:15 +0000

You were good at Perl but you're sick of it? You sound like a Ruby programmer

Why Python instead of Ruby, if you were good at Perl? The culture gap is waaay smaller, and you will probably get it quicker.

Novell and RedHat fighting about Xen - thebluesgnr

thebluesgnr — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:39:01 +0000

According to Red Hat Xen will be stable in 3 or 4 months, when they ship RHEL 5.

Novell and RedHat fighting about Xen - Jon

Jon — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:11:33 +0000

I'm glad that Redhat believe it isn't ready yet: Just look at the xen "support" in Fedora Core (4, specifically: maybe they fixed it in 5).

Novell and RedHat fighting about Xen - jd

jd — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:44:53 +0000

But there's a difference between claiming that Xen hypervizors from the 3 series will work any Xen patched kernel, and telling that the kernel API/ABI will never be stable.

Because the first statement is wrong in the facts.

Novell and RedHat fighting about Xen - Béranger

Béranger — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:40:00 +0000

« Xen can not pretend to be stable, mature, or whatever you want, because it is still not integrated into the Linux kernel tree, and thus far for a good reason: the API/ABI is not yet stable. »

Désolé, Julien, but the kernel API will _never_ be stable, Greg KH dixit. It's stupid to be this way, mais les jeux sont faits, rien ne va plus !

As for Xen, I agree with Red Hat and with you. With a _server_ distro, amateurism is not acceptable, unstability being the worst part of it.

My first experience… with python - Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:23:27 +0000

By the way, experienced Python programmers suggest that you do not use the 'from module import *' construct. It makes it harder for other people reading the code to understand where each name came from.

My first experience… with python - Florent Bayle

Florent Bayle — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:27:02 +0000

Damn ! You're now on the dark side of the Force !

Window manager - lo

lo — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:39:43 +0000

Give a look at this one: http://www.toyd.org/

Toy'd (Take Over Your Desktop) seems to be a pretty promising project.

It's still under heavy development (I've heard a Beta release is scheduled for this summer, and a first release for november or december 2006), but some tests are already looking kind of nice.

And the nice thing is, Toy'd can be used on UNIX or Linux based platforms, but also under Microsoft's Windows... Yep... no more ugly explorer... that would be so cool

Looking for a new x-terminal-emulator - Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 02:49:36 +0000

chris: mrxvt doesn't support UTF-8 yet.

Looking for a new x-terminal-emulator - chris

chris — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:36:36 +0000

Have you tried mrxvt? It supports fading and has a very nice tabbed interface.

Looking for a new x-terminal-emulator - Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:05:58 +0000

Looks like <a href="http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode">rxvt-unicode</a> is the right one for you.

Looking for a new x-terminal-emulator - opi

opi — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 00:44:58 +0000

Normally, I would recomend Konsole (if you're not afraid of Qt/KDE depends). Xfce console (I've forgot the name, apt-cache will help you there) support tabs and UTF-8.

Zim - paurullan

paurullan — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:54:39 +0000

for my FSM, this piece of software is lovely! Lots of thank you for the link :D

php-sqlite3 - jd

jd — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:16:55 +0000

It may work, but packages were compiled or sid. I'll probably try to upload backports to backports.org.

php-sqlite3 - Pete again

Pete again — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:05:19 +0000

For what it's worth, the binary doesn't need such strict dependencies as listed in the Deb package you've made. The binary's just fine for Sarge. I extracted the /usr/lib/php4/20050606/sqlite3.so from the package with alien --to-tgz, copied sqlite3.so to /usr/lib/php4/20020429, made the necessary changes to /etc/php/apache2/php.ini, and it's all worked a treat :-).

php-sqlite3 - Pete

Pete — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:31:30 +0000

A good idea. The install didn't work for me though. Using Stable (Sarge):

dpkg --install php4-sqlite3_0.3-1_i386.deb

Selecting previously deselected package php4-sqlite3. (Reading database ... 34078 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking php4-sqlite3 (from php4-sqlite3_0.3-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php4-sqlite3:

php4-sqlite3 depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1); however:
 Version of libc6 on system is 2.3.2.ds1-22.
php4-sqlite3 depends on libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.2.8); however:
 Version of libsqlite3-0 on system is 3.2.1-1.
php4-sqlite3 depends on phpapi-20051025; however:
 Package phpapi-20051025 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing php4-sqlite3 (--install):

dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Errors were encountered while processing:

php4-sqlite3

listengine - jd

jd — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:15:46 +0000

listengine - soda

soda — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:05:03 +0000

Non, ça l'est toujours (totalement pourri), tu as juste ajouté quelques fonctionnalités que certains peuvent voir comme superficielles, comme la date et l'heure. La prochaine fois, je promets que je pourrais aussi mettre l'expéditeur

listengine - soda

soda — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:03:37 +0000

Non, ça l'est toujours (totalement pourri)

FTP TLS client ?! - nova

nova — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:56:36 +0000

gftp w/ ssl doesn;t support encrypted data transfers (only for auth).

FTP TLS client ?! - jd

jd — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 22:18:41 +0000

Ok, but stunnel is not very user friendly.

For now I have recompiled gftp debian package with ssl support and it seems to be ok.

FTP TLS client ?! - JanC

JanC — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 22:07:12 +0000

You can use 'stunnel' to tunnel almost anything through ssl/tls if a program has no native support for it...

FTP TLS client ?! - J.B. Nicholson-Owens

J.B. Nicholson-Owens — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 03:39:59 +0000

My apology, I just remembered that lftp has no GUI.

FTP TLS client ?! - J.B. Nicholson-Owens

J.B. Nicholson-Owens — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 03:38:40 +0000

lftp ~~http://lftp.yar.ru/~~ does. Just like so many FTP clients, lftp is also Free Software (logiciel libre, if my French isn't too horrible) distributed under the GNU GPL. Good luck in finding an FTP client that you like.

Please email me if you reply to my post. I don't know how this blog works, but blogs typically do not notify posters that someone followed up.

--J.B. Nicholson-Owens (jbn@forestfield.org)

FTP TLS client ?! - migus

migus — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 00:49:56 +0000

Dennis,

you should have said use 'apt-build'

My 2¢

(For those that do not understand my joke, let's have a look on the maintainer of apt-build)

FTP TLS client ?! - Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:17:15 +0000

ehrm, ok, there were some more newlines in that comment, but you get the point

FTP TLS client ?! - Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:14:11 +0000

gftp supports it. The debian package is compiled without ssl support because openssl is non-free. But nothing that can't be solved by:

apt-get build-dep gftp apt-get install libssl-dev apt-get source gftp edit the call to ./configure in debian/rules dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

FTP TLS client ?! - jd

jd — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:05:38 +0000

Hum, btw, does Nautilus support this ? Can't check it by myself right now.

FTP TLS client ?! - bob

bob — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:51:14 +0000

Konqueror?

FTP TLS client ?! - pierregabin

pierregabin — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:57:42 +0000

gftp...

FTP TLS client ?! - jd

jd — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 15:44:39 +0000

I should add "packaged in Debian"

FTP TLS client ?! - Nijel

Nijel — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 15:36:24 +0000

There seems to be some: http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=ftp+tls+client

FTP TLS client ?! - Simon

Simon — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 15:20:24 +0000

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01388.html http://www.filezilla-project.org/client_features.php

FileZila 3 (not yet released) will run under Linux and support TLS/SSL.

Gftp also support SSL (only for auth), but the debian package doesn't.

FTP TLS client ?! - Sven Hoexter

Sven Hoexter — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 15:17:10 +0000

http://kasablanca.berlios.de/

Window manager - zoobab

zoobab — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:07:43 +0000

a graphical conf tool would be welcomed to configure fvwm.

also, I was unable to load those fucking themes. Themes should be in zip format so you only do fvwm-themes mytheme.zip, and it is OK.

Notification par e-mail d'un appel non répondu avec une Freebox - arno

arno — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 17:11:55 +0000

Sachant que free propose la notification par mail lorsqu'il y a un message sur le répondeur, quel est l'interet de ce script ?

(ce script n'a peut etre aucun interet, ce qui le rend alors d'autant plus interressant )

Subversion fsfs migration - Sam

Sam — Fri, 20 May 2005 11:21:48 +0000

Just wanted to throw in my thanks as well. Just switched, and it instantly solved all my Trac/Subversion/BDB problems. Nice!

Notification par e-mail d'un appel non répondu avec une Freebox - gzm

gzm — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 02:24:55 +0000

C'est la mondialisation

Notification par e-mail d'un appel non répondu avec une Freebox - Julien Danjou

Julien Danjou — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:49:10 +0000

desole c'est l'habitude, je n'utilise que des interfaces en anglais

Notification par e-mail d'un appel non répondu avec une Freebox - Nicolas

Nicolas — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:40:36 +0000

Y a beaucoup de gens qui ont une freebox et qui causent anglais ? En rapport avec "New phone call from:"... A moins qu'un message rédigé en Anglais ça paraisse plus mieux bien ? :-p

Subversion fsfs migration - Karram

Karram — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:28:45 +0000

Hey, thanks a lot for the simple instructions. I switched my repositories without any issues.

Varmon - dohboy

dohboy — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 21:28:26 +0000

Hello, Varmon appears to be exactly the utility I am looking for to interface with my Mylex Extremeraid 1100 controller. However, I use FreeBSD and there does not appear to be an existing port (or anything comparable) to this program. I realize this is probably far fetched, but is there any chance of having this utility ported to Freebsd 5.4? I don't have the skills to even attempt to do this myself. Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks

About my shell config - Dominic Mitchell

Dominic Mitchell — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 01:36:48 +0000

rdist. It's nice and simple and it works very well for me. I send my config files and my bin directory everywhere using it.

RSS aggregator - Lars

Lars — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:15:13 +0000

I hope I get the "Unread" folder crash fixed with the next release. But currently debugging time is very short

[ping] Subversion fsfs migration - McGee's Musings

McGee's Musings — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 05:24:41 +0000

Problems with Trac? Switch to FSFS

Still planning on installing TRAC.

RSS aggregator - Wilson

Wilson — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:53:26 +0000

I'm using liferea too! And I feel comfortable using it... except that it crashes randomly when slowly scrolling to read over 100 articles on the "Unread" folder. But still, liferea is a wonderful RSS aggregator that changes my way of reading news.

RSS aggregator - Robert

Robert — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:03:58 +0000

Have you ever tried SAGE? (If you're using Firefox - which everyone is supposed to be ;-)) It integrates nice into the browser and you don't have to use yet another extern tool.

http://sage.mozdev.org/

About my shell config - Jerry Haltom

Jerry Haltom — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:39:44 +0000

Unison. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

It is like rsync, but works both ways. You can plug in merge programs for different types, so you could do something with diffs.

Subversion fsfs migration - Dimi

Dimi — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 06:21:45 +0000

Hey, thanks for that. I just switched my repositories using your technique.

No more stupid post-install hooks to keep BDB happy!

How to choose ? - Jon Åslund

Jon Åslund — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 22:12:00 +0000

It didn't give the result I wanted, so here is a (bash) patch:

S=(work cleanupmyflat) ; echo ${S$(($RANDOM % ${#S[*}))]}"? nah, I don't think so"

About my shell config - Martin Langhoff

Martin Langhoff — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 20:51:55 +0000

Use Unison -- a variation on the rsync theme, which knows which version changed. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/. It's packaged for woody, too.

About my shell config - Markus Olsson

Markus Olsson — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 19:12:38 +0000

Version control system?

svn, cvs and so forth.. don't reinvent the wheel =)

How to choose ? - Piem

Piem — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:55:49 +0000

... cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp

and if still unsure, you can organise a poll:

S=(work cleanupmyflat) ; for i in `seq 1000`; do echo ${S[$(($RANDOM % ${#S[*]}))]}; done | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

About my shell config - ShaeErisson

ShaeErisson — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:34:44 +0000

ssh -M will reuse the connections, when that version of ssh reaches debian.... You could also use darcs to version control your home directory and then push your changes whenever your config changes.

About my shell config - Julien Danjou

Julien Danjou — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:31:12 +0000

I'm usualy using ssh-agent, but the problem with that solution if I use it, for an example, in a ssh() function overriding /usr/bin/ssh call from my prompt, it will do twice ssh connection to the remote host, (one to check version and one to really connect) and I don't like this.

Thanks anyway !

About my shell config - rentar

rentar — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:26:15 +0000

Assuming you use an ssh-agent or don't mind typing your password multiple times I'd use something like this (I'm a bash guy myself, so you'd have to convert the syntax, but I'm sure there's nothing in here that can't be done witz zsh)

host=remote localVersion=$(cat ~/.zsh/configversion) remoteVersion=$(ssh $host cat ~/.zsh/configversion) if $localVersion -gt $remoteVersion ; then

 scp ~/.zsh/whateveryouneed $host:.zsh

How to choose ? - MadCoder

MadCoder — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:05:16 +0000

And for both (bash and zsh) :

S=(work cleanupmyflat work) ; echo ${S[$(($RANDOM % $((${#S[*]} - 1)) + 1))]}

How to choose ? - Justin

Justin — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:03:20 +0000

python -c 'import random ; s=("work", "cleanupmyflat") ; print random.choice(s)'

How to choose ? - Julien Danjou

Julien Danjou — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:30:42 +0000

No, at least with my zsh it works: $RANDOM % 2 return 0 or 1 but array index begins at 1 so you have to add 1

How to choose ? - Nico

Nico — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:26:44 +0000

But the "+1" at the end makes it display either "cleanupmyflat" or nothing. Without the "+1" it seems to work. Or was that an intended behavior?

Nico.

Subversion fsfs migration - Scott Woods

Scott Woods — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:29:34 +0000

Thanks for the quick instructions on the migration. After seeing how simple it was (and after yet another database lockup last night), I opted to do the same today. No problems.

XFS deadlock - Ari Pollak

Ari Pollak — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 17:34:23 +0000

Funny, I had a similar problem with 2.6.9-ac7 on AMD64, but with ext3 and SATA.. I wouldn't be able to do any reading or writing from my hard drive after a few days of uptime, and would get a ton of weird timeout messages on the console until I rebooted. It seems like 2.6.9 was just a big bust all around.

Migration to apache2 - Gunnar

Gunnar — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 06:34:06 +0000

What about mod_perlities? I am pissed off by this... mod_perl changed the API substantially... I am in the middle of this migration, just need to rewrite the first part of the handler. Should be quite easy, but... Well, I have to dig a bit more into documentation, as I have been unable to get my cookies with something similar to Apache::Cookie (I refuse to use CGI::Cookie!)

Encrypted Files Transfers ? - Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:33:38 +0000

Do it yourself SSH allows arbitrary commands to execute, including a simple file transfer protocol tool. And it provides neatly a virtual chroot. Does not allow subdirs though (has security implications). In ~user/.ssh/authorized_keys add the SSH key with the prefix: command="/home/user/.ssh/restrict.py",no-pty,no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-f orwarding ssh-dss <SSH keydata>

restrict.py (HTML might be garbled): <pre>

!/usr/bin/python

import sys, os, re

is_good_file = re.compile(r"^[0-9a-zA-Z][-a-zA-Z0-9. ]*$").match

datadir is the file area

datadir = "/home/user/pool/"

def handle_list ():

   files = os.listdir(datadir)
   files.sort()
   print "
".join(files)

def handle_range (l, fname):

   if is_good_file(fname):
       f = file(datadir+fname, 'rb')
       f.seek(l)
       data = f.read(1024)
       while data:
           sys.stdout.write(data)
           data = f.read(1024)
       sys.stdout.flush()
   else:
       print "Sorry."

_logfile = open("/home/user/.ssh/connect.log", 'a') def log (msg):

   _logfile.write(msg)
   _logfile.write("
")
   _logfile.flush()

def get_time ():

   import time
   return time.ctime(time.time())

def main ():

   arg = os.environ.get("SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND", "")
   log("user logged in on %s, cmd %s" % (get_time(), `arg`))
   if arg=="list":
       handle_list()
   elif arg.startswith("get "):
       handle_range(0, arg[4:])
   elif arg.startswith("range "):
       l, fname = arg[6:].split(" ", 1)
       handle_range(long(l), fname)
   else:
       print "Sorry."

if __name__=='__main__':

   try: main()
   except Exception:
       import traceback
       exctype, value, tb = sys.exc_info()
       traceback.print_exception(exctype, value, tb, None, _logfile)
       print "Sorry."

</pre>

Backup - Isaac Claymore

Isaac Claymore — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:50:01 +0000

I've been using backuppc for several months, and it failed only once: http://clay.biti9711.com/archives/2004/09/backuppc_fails.html

It was due to a trivial commandline interface change of rsync. And I guess that's one of the reasons why serious backup systems don't use external programs to actually transfer data.

I've also found Bacula a very powerful backup tool: http://www.bacula.org/index.html http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/4476

Of course, its commandline interface isn't that attractive as web-based admin pages.

Now, I'm using both of them, backuppc for my desktop/laptop, and bacula for the servers.

Encrypted Files Transfers ? - Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:59:30 +0000

and of course the rest of my post was supposed to say that patching it to add logging support is probably a better solution than most other options.

Encrypted Files Transfers ? - Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:56:27 +0000

What about sftp? It works out of the box on any unix box with openssh's sshd (and probably others). It's also as secure as ssh and there are graphical explorers for it for various OSen (even Nautilus can browse them).

Encrypted Files Transfers ? - Emmanuel Lacour

Emmanuel Lacour — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 23:06:01 +0000

You can also use a plain rsync server with ssl tunneling (stunnel) instead of rsync over ssh. No shell, x509 control if you need it, good bandwith rate....usefull for backups, but need stunnel on the server and on the client.<br /> I don't agree with ftp-ssl and NAT, it's working quite well here with proftpd and nat/conntrack modules for ftp (just tcp:21 open and leave the conntrack track the related connections)

Encrypted Files Transfers ? - LENHOF

LENHOF — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 07:30:43 +0000

During my cleaning of my bookmarks I just found this :

http://sftplogging.sourceforge.net/

Encrypted Files Transfers ? - LENHOF

LENHOF — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:11:28 +0000

There's also ftp-ssl on debian...

Regards,

Encrypted Files Transfers ? - Yann Aubert

Yann Aubert — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 16:01:34 +0000

What about mioga? Mioga (http://www.mioga2.org/) is a groupware application built on top of apache/modperl with a file manager which uses dav as transfer protocol. And with Mioga you've got users, groups and ACLs. You can acces your files through any dav client.

Encrypted Files Transfers ? - Roland Mas

Roland Mas — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 17:46:19 +0000

Who says HTTPS is not a file transfer protocol? I assume you mean for upload, but even then you can upload stuff through HTTP (S or not S). There's a PUT method in HTTP that you can use, or you can use a POST request with a 50-line PHP script to manage permissions, logging, size limitations and so on.

Encrypted Files Transfers ? - Nico

Nico — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 15:29:01 +0000

What about DAV? I don't have much experience with that, but you can run it over SSL (like HTTPS), you can transfer files, and you can get log files from Apache e.g.

Encrypted Files Transfers ? - Tobias

Tobias — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 14:57:52 +0000

WASTE (http://waste.sourceforge.net/) does exactly what you want. Sadly the only complete implementation is a Win32 app.

I'm a semi-real man ! - Rey

Rey — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:27:41 +0000

I didn't see Joey Hess' blog, but I did catch yours. Thanks for posting this, its really a big help.