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WordPress Backend Plugins

Bei WordPress Bits bin ich auf 2 praktische, und WordPress 2.3 kompatible Plugins, aufmerksam geworden:

Clutter Free

Clutter Free is a plugin that lets you hide portions of the WordPress posting interface that you rarely (or never) use. Instead of being minimized (and still taking up room), they’ll be completely invisible.

WP-AddQuickTag

In the end I managed to add quicktags buttons for them and I figured, why not make a plugin to add any other tag? Well, that’s what I did and WP-AddQuicktag is the result. Hope you like it!

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Abhören von Glasfaser-Kabeln

Bei techrepublic gibt es einen kurzen Artikel zum Abhören von Glasfaser-Kabeln.

The most obvious way to protect your fiber cables from this type of attack is to prevent physical access to them. But what happens if all your efforts fail to prevent a bent cable tap?

When cable taps present a higher than acceptable risk, consider encrypting all sensitive data in transit. Another possible solution is a fiber intrusion detection device. These devices can detect subtle changes in the characteristics of the light traveling over monitored fiber. These changes are most prevalent when preparing fiber for a tap. Security personnel monitoring this information can analyze it for possible attacks against the network.

Unicode mit/in PHP

Auf developerworks gibt es einen nützlichen Artikel über Unicode Grundlagen in PHP.

You’re almost certain to achieve the best results if you focus on this single, consistent target:

• Explicit use of UTF-8, marked with
  • “mb_language(‘uni’); mb_internal_encoding(‘UTF-8’);” at the top of your scripts
  • Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 in the HTTP header, by way of .htaccess, header() or Web server configuration
  • and in HTML markup
  • CREATE DATABASE … DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8 … ENGINE … CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci is a typical sequence for a MySQL instance, with comparable expressions for other databases
  • SET NAMES ‘utf8’ COLLATE ‘utf8_unicode_ci’ is a valuable directive for PHP to send MySQL immediately after connecting
  • In php.ini, assign default_charset = UTF-8
• Replacement of string functions, such as strlen and strtlower, with mb_strlen and mb_convert_case
• Replacement of mail and colleagues with mb_send_mail, etc.; while Unicode-aware e-mail is an advanced topic beyond the scope of this introduction, the use of mb_send_mail is a good starting point
• Use of multibyte regular expressions functions

PDFs mit Perl

Mal wieder Perl. PDF Processing with Perl beschreibt wie man mit PDF::Reuse existierende PDFs neu arangieren und kombinieren kann. Praktisch zu wissen.

PDF::Reuse is a well-written and well-documented package, which makes it easy to create, combine, and change existing PDF documents. The two sample applications show some of its capabilities. Two limitations should be mentioned however, PDF::Reuse can’t reuse existing bookmarks, and after combining different PDF documents some of the inner document hyperlinks might stop working properly.

Data Mining bei der Vorratsdatenspeicherung

quintessenz veröffentlich

ETSI Dokumente zum Data Mining bei der Vorratsdatenspeicherung.

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Vorgesehen ist demnach, dass die umfangreichen Informationshappen aus der Vorratsdatenspeicherung samt dem Einsatz unvollständiger Suchbegriffe und frei definierter Stichwörter in Form so genannter Wildcards durchforstet werden könnten. (…) Die Sorgen von Bürgerrechtlern, dass alle entsprechenden technischen Verfahren im Rahmen der Analyse der Vorratsdaten zum Einsatz kommen sollen, bestätigen die ETSI-Entwürfe nun unmittelbar.