In this post, I’m going to go over my short journey to setup my PHP development environment on Windows 10. I will tell you how to setup PHPStorm to debug PHP applications using XDebug and PHP setup over Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on WSL2. I would like to work against the latest version of PHP and compile it myself. At the same time, setting up extensions and compiling PHP itself on windows is not a very straightforward task as far as I know. The plan is to have the development environment run from Linux (WSL2) while the IDE, which is PHPStorm...
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Shrinking a LaTeX paper to fit under the page limits
As PhD students or grant writers, I’m sure we have all been there. You need to squeeze in two more paragraphs into the text and stay under the 12 page limits. Sometimes you can throw away another paragraph that is not so necessary. Other times you can rephrase multiple sentences and save several lines. Shrinking figures is always an option. You know what’s worse? Resubmitting a paper to a conference with a less forgiving template in terms of space, or just a smaller page limit. Once the idea is shaped and the text is written, it is indeed harder to...
Continue reading...HTTPoxy vulnerability affecting CGI Applications
There’s this new vulnerability with a website [HTTPoxy.org] and a logo. Apart from the complete description that’s available at their official website I’m going to walk you through it and give you some practical examples of abuse cases. I’ve also developed a tool that you can run on your servers which tells you if you’re vulnerable or not. What is HTTPoxy and how does it work? HTTPoxy is the name of a vulnerability affecting CGI based applications. This can affect PHP, Go, Python, Perl, etc. Web servers running in a CGI or CGI-like context may assign client request Proxy header...
Continue reading...Mac OS X ElCapitan 10.11.5 Update Login Issue
Facing issues after 10.11.5 update? The login screen stuck at loading? Backups not available or are old? Don’t panic hopefully this post will guide you through fixing it with no data loss. It took me 2 days to figure this out. The fun coincidence here is that the guy who posted this tip on apple forums said that it was his last resort before giving up. And when I found this post I was preparing my ElCapitan bootable disk to do a fresh installation. “Never Give Up, Never Give In.”
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