Tonight’s feature is a video of one of my favorite artists, Diana Krall. This particular performance is from the live concert at the Paris Olympia Theatre in 2002.
Julie London’s performance of this Arthur Hamilton torch song was my favorite until I heard the sultry tones of Diana Krall performing it.
While setting up Apache for Windows to use SSPI so that I could implement Alain O’Dea’s method of combining Active Directory authentication with SVN I ran into an interesting path problem.
After following Alain’s instructions I kept receiving the following error:
SSLSessionCache: Invalid argument: size has to be >= 8192 bytes
After some investigation it runs out that this is due to the way the path in the configuration file was being parsed. This is partially due to my environment. On Windows Server 2008 when installing a 32-bit application, the installer drops the files into C:\Program Files (x86)\… unless otherwise directed.
It turns out that the extra set of parenthesis was causing Apache to bomb out. I tried wrapping the path in quotes, as well as falling back to the Windows 98 naming scheme of using C:\Progra~2\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\… but that didn’t work out either. What I ended up doing was making a shortcut on the root of the C: drive called apache that pointed to the contents of C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\ making the final path in the configuration file:
C:/apache/Apache2.2/logs/ssl_scache(512000)
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At work we currently use version 3.3.3 of the Luminis III platform by SunGard Higher Education. This product handles our mail and portal needs for the time being. While it is definitely not the best web-based mail client in the world I have seen worse.
Recently I had received a notice from a friend that he couldn’t read my signed e-mail in the web-client. After having him forward the message to me as an attachment, I determined that the problem had to do with my digital signature.
I use Apple’s Mail client for OS X 10.5. Currently I also have GPGMail by Stéphane Corthésy installed so that I can seamlessly use my GPG keys to sign and encrypt my e-mail. After sending an unsigned message and finding out that it went through with no problems, I started investigating the options provided by GPGMail.
It turns out that I had checked the option to use OpenPGP/MIME by default. Apparently this creates an message body that the Luminis III web-mail client can’t read. So if you are running into this problem with a web-based client, check to see if your messages are going out as OpenPGP/MIME.
Quite some time ago I used to do a fairly regular Friday post of music videos. It’s time to start that over, but this time I going to post one every Monday night.
Tonight’s video is She Talks to Angels by The Black Crowes. The song was released in 1990 on the album Shake Your Money Maker.
Recently I had to build a custom form for VSU’s implementation of R25 by CollegeNet. The form was designed to allow individuals to schedule an event at VSU using our facilities and equipment. The form is a multi-part form that branches off at the third page based on prior answers.
One of the hurdles in the form creation was the necessity of validating the form input on a page before proceeding to the next part of the form. While this fairly routine process can be accomplished by using a self-referencing form and validating the contents of the $_POST superglobal, the number of form elements made it somewhat cumbersome.
Enter the PHP Form Validation Script. While searching for some ways to make the validation more painless to code, I ran across a nifty PHP script at the HTML Form Guide website. It is a object-oriented PHP script that make it much easier to do the validation on html form elements. There are quite a few pre-defined validation descriptors, plus a method that allows for overriding the DoValidate function to create your own custom descriptor.
There is one thing that I would like the script to handle natively:
There is also an undocumented validation descriptor in the script. The pre-defined selone is used for a select/option element. According to the code the default error message is “Please select an option for %s” and it check to ensure that the value for the element is set and that the value is less than or equal to zero. If either of those check fail then the error message is displayed.