I have been meaning to blog about this for over a year now, but check out the captcha on this website: http://linksave.in/register.
That is one way on how NOT to do captcha, but very interesting and I wonder how spam bots go with it.
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Saturday, August 14th, 2010NFS Manager
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010I have been playing around with python and django the last coupon of weeks and I have created a NFS Manager module. You can grab the source code from: http://github.com/bmaynard/NFSManager
It is fairly basic at the moment and I havn’t implement all the options available for NFS but you can manage several servers from one place 
. To use the module, you create new servers, then setup the shared directories and clients. After you have set everything up you can go to the server list and push the changes across from the action drop down.
If you have any comments or suggestions then please leave a comment, I would like to try and make the module more powerful.
Pwnie Awards
Saturday, July 24th, 2010I was reading my twitter feed and I read that the nominations for the pwnie 2010 awards had been announced, so I go and check it out and to my surprise I noticed my blog post about the OpenCart CSRF issue had been nominated for a pwnie award under Lamest Vendor Response! Never when writing the blog post did I think it would ever get so big which did at once stage crash my server.
The winners are announced at the BlackHat USA 2010 conference in Las Vagas which is the event ontop of my to go to list……..now where is my free ticket?
Installing PHP extensions on Mac OS X under xampp
Monday, May 31st, 2010The other day I installed xampp on a mac os x running snow leopard but I was having an issue installing any extra extensions like xdebug and apc. I found out it was because it was compiling the extensions in 64bit but xampp is compiled in 32bit and I did the following to fix the issue:
- Download and extract the source
- Run phpize
- Adding the following parameters to configure:
./configure MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6 CFLAGS="-arch i386 -g -Os -pipe -no-cpp-precomp" CCFLAGS="-arch i386 -g -Os -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-arch i386 -g -Os -pipe" LDFLAGS="-arch i386 -bind_at_load"
- make (and make install if required)
- done
If that doesnt work, try adding:
--with-php-config=/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/php-config-5.3.1
to the configure command.
I hope that will help some people out there, because it was driving me insane!
I got reddited
Monday, May 31st, 2010Last week my post got posted on reddit and was on the homepage for over 24 hours which I as totally not expecting and the end results was my blog being down for a large amount of time over those couple of days. I had to set my DNS records to 127.0.0.1 as all I had at the time to fix the issue was my phone and since I receive free hosting from my old company (WebClick – http://www.webclick.com.au) the last thing I wanted to do was crash their servers.
I have now installed wp-supercache so hopefully if it every happens again, my blog will handle it 10x better.