Guymon

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• CCK TableField | drupal.org
  This module provides a generic method to attach tabular data to a node. The input form allows the user to specify the number of rows/columns and allows entry into each table cell using text fields. Since this is a CCK field, it is automatically revision capable, multi-value capable and has prebuilt integration with Views.
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File Access in Drupal

redfinsolutions zeigt wie sich Private and Public File Access in Drupal umsetzen lassen.

Teil 1 ist ein Folder mit geschützten Dateien und eine .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^GET$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /system%{REQUEST_URI} [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^POST$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /system%{REQUEST_URI} [L,QSA]

Teil 2 ein ein custom file_download hook (hier drupal 5):

/**
* Implementation of hook_file_download().
*/
function [YOURMODULE]_file_download($filepath) {
	$dirbasename = basename(dirname($filepath));
	if ($dirbasename == 'private') {
		if (user_access('access webform results')) {
			return 1;
		} else {
			return -1;
		}
	}
}

Tor für Android

Nathan Freitas und Jacob Appelbaum haben TOR für Android portiert.

We have successfully ported the native C Tor app to Android and built an Android application bundle that installs, runs and provides the glue needed to make it useful to end users…. secure, anonymous access to the web via Tor on Android is now a reality. (Update: Tor doesn’t magically encrypt all of your Internet activities, though. You should understand what Tor does and does not do for you.)

jQuery Plugins

So, mal wieder zwei jQuery Plugins die ich gerade entdeckt habe, die beide irgendwie cool sind, und die ich beide wohl trotzdem nicht für Kunden einsetzen werde:

Das erste Plugin realisiert Browser size aware content scaling.

Just recently, I noticed something pretty cool at Google Images: When you resize your browser, search results are hidden/shown, depending if it makes a full row. It does really have a big advantage: you’ll never have any “empty spots” on your website. The grid is always fully filled and results that don’t fit in the grid, are simply hidden.

Kinda cool, aber bislang ist mir noch kein Kunde über den Weg gelaufen, der es hinnehmen würde, dass Bilder NICHT gezeigt werden….

Das andere Plugin ist CuteTime und macht aus Thu, October 29, 2004 12:14:19 PM so was wie 9 days ago. Allerdings würde ich das ja eher Serverseitig machen, aber wenn das mal nicht gehen sollte wäre dieses Plugin eine Lösung.

Der NSA geht der Strom aus

James Bamford über das neue Datencenter der NSA in Utah in einer Rezension des Buches The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency von Matthew M. Aid.

Aid concludes that the biggest problem facing the agency is not the fact that it’s drowning in untranslated, indecipherable, and mostly unusable data, problems that the troubled new modernization plan, Turbulence, is supposed to eventually fix. “These problems may, in fact, be the tip of the iceberg,” he writes. Instead, what the agency needs most, Aid says, is more power. But the type of power to which he is referring is the kind that comes from electrical substations, not statutes. “As strange as it may sound,” he writes, “one of the most urgent problems facing NSA is a severe shortage of electrical power.” With supercomputers measured by the acre and estimated $70 million annual electricity bills for its headquarters, the agency has begun browning out, which is the reason for locating its new data centers in Utah and Texas.

via Bruce Schneier