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Apple QuickTime RTSP Buffer Overflow

Posted on 8th January, 2007, 9:30 am, by glen, under General, Mac, Security.

A vulnerability has been found in the way QuickTime handles Real Time Streaming Protocol URL’s. Until Apple release a Software Update for this, it is recommended that users disable QuickTime support in their browsers. This is simple to do:

Navigate to /Library/Internet Plug-Ins
Drag the QuickTime Plugin.plugin and QuickTime Plugin.webplugin files to a temporary location, [...]

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Enabling GD library for PHP 4.4.4 on Mac OS X

Posted on 16th December, 2006, 2:21 am, by glen, under Apache, Mac, MySQL, PHP.

For some reason, GD is not enabled in the default Mac OS X build of PHP 4.4.4. Here’s an easy way to install. Make sure you have the following fink packages installed:

libpng3
libjpeg

1. Download the source code for PHP 4.4.4
PHP 4.4.4 source
2. Unpack the source
tar jxvf php-4.4.4.tar.bz2
cd php-4.4.4
3. Compile and install the GD extension

cd [...]

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Perfect Harmony?

Posted on 14th December, 2006, 8:51 pm, by glen, under Design, General, Mac, XHTML.

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }
.flickr-yourcomment { }
.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }
.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }

Perfect Harmony?, originally uploaded by lonesome cowboy glen.

The latest version of Parallels Desktop for Mac offers a feature called Coherence which means that you can run Windows apps on your Mac desktop. It’s really [...]

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Sending encrypted mail with Apple Mail

Posted on 12th December, 2006, 10:22 pm, by glen, under General, Mac.

Apple Mail has a nice feature that allows you to digitally sign and encrypt your messages. This is extremely important if you are sending sensitive information via e-mail because messages are usually sent over an unencrypted channel. This means that there is the potential of your message being intercepted by a third-party. [...]

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Run multiple versions of Internet Explorer on Windows

Posted on 7th December, 2006, 3:26 pm, by glen, under CSS, Design, General, Mac, XHTML.

Windows has always been a bit of a pain when it comes to Internet Explorer versions: it only allows you to have one installed. This makes testing problematic: it means, for instance, that I have to have several Windows XP installations in Parallels Desktop and load them up when needed. However, [...]

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PHP syntax check on Save

Posted on 7th December, 2006, 10:29 am, by glen, under Mac, PHP.

John Gruber has produced a nice little AppleScript to check your PHP documents for syntax errors. I have found that you can use this as a nice safety net so not to save any PHP documents with errors by attaching the script to the Save option in the File menu:
1. Install the AppleScript into [...]

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