Yet Another Bunch of Bytes

Retrieving settings from PHP’s configuration seems straightforward at first sight: <?

An Apache module that exposes the REMOTE_USER variable from authentication modules that don’t set it during the fixup phase.

C0depast3r is a pastebin tool with code highlighting and the ability to paste code from emacs.

A roundcube plugin to provide an automatic authentication with the mod-auth-openid module of Apache.

I recently went through a problem with two PHP scripts in what at first sight looked like a bug.

It is possible to wrap a variadic function in C, using some facilities provided by C99 (as supported by GCC and a couple of other compilers).

The goal of this page is to show how to backtrace C function calls.

Yet another insult generator.

The jail system is a specific feature of FreeBSD that adds a level of security by wrapping a process into a sub-system.

Sometimes, casting a void* in C++ is necessary, unfortunately, this is hard to achieve in an intuitive way and to remember the horrible syntax.

Aimxhos is a tiny kernel written in C, which does not do anything useful.

Boost provides a unit test framework which makes it possible to ensure that a class works well now, and for its all life, even if someone decides to change it later.

I’ve been looking for a way to know the level of a class in an inheritance list in C++, here is a quick and dirty solution using a template class which increments its level value when used. template <class T> struct Inc: public T { enum { level = 1 +…

The BIOS is the first code running on a computer at start-up, it performs several operations on hardware such as initializations or tests, before the loading of the operating system.

Last days I’ve been coding a C implementation of SHA-1 algorithm, I found this very interesting so let’s write about it.

Emacs doesn’t handle by default error detection on the fly like some IDEs, fortunately, there’s a minor mode for that: Flymake.

There’s an easy way to embed C code into PHP by creating extensions.

There is a pidgin plugin for netsoul, its installation is made for BSDs, and not well documented for Linux.