PHP Accelerator and DSO

More compilation tasks: Compile Apache with DSO support! And install the PHP Accelerator: http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk/

swish-e 2.2

A new swish-e version has arrived which they say is faster.

Indexing really looks faster, if I can trust my eyes?

ServerTokens Prod

The current Apache OpenSSL worm ("Linux Slapper Worm") checks the webserver version by reading the HTTP header before it attacks.

Added "ServerTokens Prod" to httpd.conf - now it says "Server: Apache", was "Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.10 OpenSSL/0.9.6" before.

(See the Apache documentation and FAQ.)

Creating PDF files

Downloaded the Adobe Generic Postscript printer driver as I thought I should be able to convert the .ps files into .pdf using ps2pdf under Linux. But the resulting PDF is absolutely ugly - images are missing, fonts don't scale...

Acrobat is expensive (> 300 €), Jaws PDF Creator is more than 100 € as well...

fetchmail / procmail

Somebody in the German PHP mailinglist recommended using fetchmail/procmail for fetching mails automatically from a POP3 server and putting their contents into a database.

E-mail archiving through BCC:?

Generic Information Server Toolkit (GIST)

Sounds a little bit like XDD, but with a lot more features:

http://gist.jrc.it/default/

PHP 4.2.3

Upgraded to Apache 1.3.26 / PHP 4.2.3.

Beautiful comment box layout on inmyexperience.com

inmyexperience.com:

This is how a comment box should look like... (maybe including an "Avatar" / icon of the person commenting.)

T-Online dsl 5000 MB?

The Telekom flat rate has just become more expensive - switch to the 5GB rate instead?

http://service.t-online.de/t-on/kund/anme/star/cc-anmeldung-1102.html

Bundling ADOdb with XDD

XDD uses rather trivial SQL - I probably should remove the xdd_db_*() functions and use ADOdb instead (which could be bundled):

http://php.weblogs.com/ADOdb

XDD trash can

XDD should move deleted records (including associated files) into a .trash directory.

Checking for open ports

Installed a cron job which directs "nmap localhost" output to a file.

This file is checked for diffs by our dc4status tool.

So I should be notified by e-mail when a new port is opened...

Faking POP3 mails with teapop

This is not yet working for me: I can authenticate through POP using my Unix account, but I didn't succeed in using .htpasswd files instead.

GNU readline in PHP

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.readline.php

Installed it, but didn't use yet...

PHP Cache

I should install one of those PHP caches!

Which one is the tool of choice? APC? http://apc.communityconnect.com/