First of all the trivial stuff. I just noticed that my referer log was spammed by some domain resellers. The script I based my referer code on already had “checking” in there to make sure the referer actually listed your url on it, but I didn’t enable it. That’ll be enabled and added to b2options shortly. I also added a “delete” function to b2referers so you can delete referer records to get rid of spammers.
I just noticed that Google, Ask Jeeves and other search engines have visited in the past few days. I should really ignore those hits in the referer script.
This morning I received an email from Matthew Mullenweg asking me to join the WordPress effort. It took me all of 5 seconds to agree that b2 would be best served by a merger of b2++ and WordPress.
I’m off to Chicago on Sunday, life’s hectic here as I tie up loose ends. It’ll probably take a few weeks before there’s anything useable from this merger, but I’m excited at the future possibilities of b2!
Author Archives: Donncha
Did you download the Matrix 2?
I find this BBC article laughable! I spent over a week dodging Matrix 2 spoilers until I saw it last night! Even if the downloaded movie is of a higher quality than the usual movie rips I’d still rather see the movie in the cinema! This Slashdot discussion has more opinions and rants..
ATi cheated too?
Looks like Nvidia aren’t the only ones who cheated in benchmarks! Although the Register dubbed it, “optimised code”.
They conclude, “Or toss a coin – just as valid a basis for judgement as benchmarks these days” when buying a new graphics card.
Install Sendmail – 6.0
It’s been a while, but I released a new version of Install Sendmail today. This version now works on Red Hat 9, or other modern Linux/Unix systems with Sendmail 8.12.x (Thanks to Brent D Miller!)
I also added a Polish translation by Michal Gawron, thanks!
PHP: Process Control Functions
I had quite forgotten that PHP can fork a process just like in C! This might be a useful thing to know for doing background tasks, but to be honest the extra complexity required will probably put me off doing it. That’s where this Thread class comes in handy..
<?php
include ("threadClass.php");class testThread extends Thread {
function testThread($name) {
$this->Thread($name); // calls the parent constructor and assign its name
}function run() {
while(true) {
sleep(1);
print time() ."-" . $this->getName() . " said ok...\n"; // every second we're going to print this line...
}
}
}
// Main program. Bring up two instances of the same class (testThread).
// They runs concurrently. It's a multi-thread app with a few lines of code!!!$test1 = new testThread ("Thread-1");
$test2 = new testThread ("Thread-2");
$test1->start();
$test2->start();print "This is the main process. Press [CTRL-CANC] to terminate.\n";
while(true) {sleep(1);}?>
Busy
You can tell I’m busy. No posts today so far. Installing Apache, MySQL, PHP on a new machine, and fiddling with firewalls.
Anyone good at iptables stuff? How do I let MSN Messenger through? The following would work fine if not for Messenger!
# /etc/sysconfig/iptables
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT - [0:0]
-A INPUT -j RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT
-A FORWARD -j RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT# lan
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -s 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 -d 0/0 -j ACCEPT# ssh
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 --syn -j ACCEPT# smtp
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 --syn -j ACCEPT# dns
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -p udp -m udp -s dns1_server1 --sport 53 -d 0/0 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -s dns_server2 --sport 53 -d 0/0 -j ACCEPT# localhost
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT# reject everything else
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --syn -j REJECT
-A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -p udp -m udp -j REJECT
COMMIT
I found reAim which is a compact transparent proxy designed to be run on or behind a Linux IPTables based firewall.
Trying to proxy through Squid didn’t work either, I got the following error:
TCP_DENIED/403 1020 CONNECT messenger.hotmail.com:1863 – NONE/- –
That’s annoying.
b2++ forum and documentation
I added a discussion forum and documentation site for b2++. Both are quite empty right now, but you can post to the forum if you have any queries or comments about b2++, and if you’d like to contribute to the documentation feel free to email me and I’ll setup an account for you to edit pages in the Wiki.
The documentation is handled by WakkaWiki but I’ve limited editing by requiring a username/password.
The forum is running a stock version of phpBB.
b2++ 0.7 released
b2++ 0.7 is out. Read the announcement on the b2 forums.
I’ve also installed a wiki and phpBB2 on this site. If anyone would like to contribute to the documentation effort, or can test/verify a phpBB2 install I’d appreciate it. That said, installing it was quite easy and may influence the install of b2++ in the future!
Go download it now!
nightly GTK2/XFT Mozilla Firebird Linux/x86 builds available
Hmm, must take a look at this build of Moz FB. As it uses GTK2 the GUI’ll be anti-aliased too!
The b2 future – WordPress
Michel’s back, and announced details about the future of b2.
WordPress is going to be the next version of b2 and is developed by Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg. I’ve exchanged brief emails with both on different matters and hope to continue exchanging ideas and code as we’re working on a similar codebase. Tim has more on the announcement too.
With b2++ and WordPress around, the future of b2 looks good! 🙂
On another note, there’s a security hole in the blog import tools shipped with b2. I bundled these scripts with b2++. The easiest way of fixing that is by deleting gm-2-b2.php and blogger-2-b2.php.