PHP’s FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL validates email addresses quickly and easily. <?php $email = “marc@somehost.com”; if(filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) === FALSE) { echo $email.” is invalid”; } else { echo $email.” is valid”; } ?> Read it all at http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/marc_plotz10012009.php3?page=2
Synopsis: “Multiple race conditions in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc6 allow local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or gain privileges by attempting to open an anonymous pipe via a /proc/*/fd/ pathname.” Debian 5.x systems suffer from this vulnerability (with or without Wine installed), and the …
Caucho’s Resin server now has PHP support with the Quercus module. Claiming anything from 4x to 6x performance improvement, and easy writing of extensions in Java (and presumably any JVM based language), it looks like a really great idea.
According to Khaled alHabache Scala is his next choice, is this really better than Java?
BBC team exposes cyber crime risk. The BBC report fails to mention what the makeup of the various systems they controlled was, and many pundits are assuming that it was mostly (if not entirely) Windows powered PCs that made up the 20,000 strong botnet, as Windows is by far the dominant PC operating system, and …
Yes you heard me right, Debian. I used to hate it back before apt. Despite plenty of pressure from peers, I never got the “Debian” way, but with the release of Etch I decided I would give it another go; this time I would not be disappointed. Etch worked flawlessly, powering my server since late …
In the early days when I was programming on DOS we had no version control software, and PKZIP was typically used to archive releases (crude but functional). I knew from a brief exposure to Xenix about SCCS, and what real version control was like, so I created my own version control system for DOS. I …
Kano (of Kanotix fame) provides this excellent script to install the latest ATI FireGL driver on yer Debian box. I have installed Debian Lenny x86_64 (5.0) on a new box with a AMD 780G chipset, that includes an on board HD3200 graphics processor. Could I get the video working by installing the driver direct from …
I have replaced my old Athlon64 3000+ server box, with an AMD Athlon64 X2 4600+, with 4G OCZ RAM, and 6x500G WD SATA drives in a RAID6 configuration. The old server had been running Mandriva 2006.0 since sometime in late 2005. I never moved it to Mandriva 2007.0, mainly because after testing it I decided …