May 14th 2007 Archives

May 14, 2007

Show ‘Dancing’ Bears That You Really Care

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Animal Cruelty No comments

 
Show ‘Dancing’ Bears That You Really Care Created by an award-winning advertising agency, this frightful flick is a spine-tingling tale of terror and torture.
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/dancing_bears
Want to know the scariest thing of all? “Dancing” bears in Pakistan and India are mercilessly mutilated just like this when they are barely a year old. No animal should have to [...]


May 14, 2007

Apache and SSL

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Programming Concepts, Technical Articles No comments

Why SSL ?
Protecting your web folders with Basic Authentication by using either htpasswd (using the filesystem to store username and password or mod_auth_mysql (using mysql to store username and password) increases security. But , this added layer of security provided by Basic Authentication can be overwhelmed easily by a serious hacker familiar with sniffing tools since  the username [...]


May 14, 2007

Apache as a File Repository

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Programming Concepts, Technical Articles No comments

WebDAV, which stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning enables Apache to act as a network drive . It uses HTTP as the protocol instead of TCP/IP or port like SMB and NFS.
How can we do this ?

mod_dav which ships with Apache has to be enabled. You should be able to see the library in [...]