What Mike Does All Day

khtml2png

Hey Gaza,

Got khtml2png working on a red hat 9 box:

download.
./configure
make
make install

mv kcookiejarrc-accept ~/.kde/share/config/kcookiejarrc

vncserver -depth 32 -geometry 1000x1000

(enter password)

then

./khtml2png/khtml2png -display :1 --width 1200 --height 1600 --scaled-width 220 --scaled-height 260 http://www.google.com/googleblog/2004/07/warning-we-brake-for-number-theory.html e-commerce.png

and it makes a png of the URL.

Then, I made a php script where you send the parameters $_REQUEST - style, call the script, and dump back the png to the calling server(still working out the delivery format of this). This makes for hot feedbag/bookmarks action in Rage Against The MachineSpeak.

You are now kissing my grits.
Hoover

logos of the secretive machinespeak

Magic Quotes And Add Slashes In PHP

I'm working on weblog/whatever input software, in PHP. This is old gnu's, but a nice refresher:

Harry Fuecks on magic quotes and add slashes

PHP Shorthand Syntax

A compact (if cryptic) shorthand is useful:

echo "var is ".($var < 0 ? "negative" : "positive");

is equivalent to:

echo "var is ";
if ($var < 0)
echo "negative";
else
echo "positive";

The shorthand can be considered (expression ? true_value : false_value) where 'expression' is evaluated and, if true, the 'true_value' is returned, otherwise the 'false_value' is returned.

Firefox @ Work

We installed Firefox on all users machines, used a standard security config, and told them to stop using IE except for certain sites, such as microsoft.com and various, stupidly designed, internal applications. I expect to see a drastic decrease in spyware on the "Usual User Suspects" machines. The same usual suspects that always have something like "420 objects found" when you run spyware cleaning tools on their machines. I'll let you know how it works out.