The world's largest chipmaker uses a lot of servers. But it says it's having to spend money on fewer now thanks to VMware -- and offers a few lessons to CIOs also looking to trim costs.
Announcing that Windows Phone 7 has been "released to manufacturing," Microsoft marks a major milestone in the development of its new mobile operating system.
The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.3. This release focuses on improving the stability and security of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 100 bug fixes, some of which are security related. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Backwards incompatible change:Methods with the same name as the last element of a namespaced class name will no longer be treated as constructor. This change doesn't affect non-namespaced classes. There is no impact on migration from 5.2.x because namespaces were only introduced in PHP 5.3.Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.3:Rewrote var_export() to use smart_str rather than output buffering, prevents data disclosure if a fatal error occurs (CVE-2010-2531).Fixed a possible resource destruction issues in shm_put_var().Fixed a possible information leak because of interruption of XOR operator.Fixed a possible memory corruption because of unexpected call-time pass by refernce and following memory clobbering through callbacks.Fixed a possible memory corruption in ArrayObject::uasort().Fixed a possible memory corruption in parse_str().Fixed a possible memory corruption in pack().Fixed a possible memory corruption in substr_replace().Fixed a possible memory corruption in addcslashes().Fixed a possible stack exhaustion inside fnmatch().Fixed a possible dechunking filter buffer overflow.Fixed a possible arbitrary memory access inside sqlite extension.Fixed string format validation inside phar extension.Fixed handling of session variable serialization on certain prefix characters.Fixed a NULL pointer dereference when processing invalid XML-RPC requests (Fixes CVE-2010-0397, bug #51288).Fixed SplObjectStorage unserialization problems (CVE-2010-2225).Fixed possible buffer overflows in mysqlnd_list_fields, mysqlnd_change_user.Fixed possible buffer overflows when handling error packets in mysqlnd.Key enhancements in PHP 5.3.3 include:Upgraded bundled sqlite to version 3.6.23.1.Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 8.02.Added FastCGI Process Manager (FPM) SAPI.Added stream filter support to mcrypt extension.Added full_special_chars filter to ext/filter.Fixed a possible crash because of recursive GC invocation.Fixed bug #52238 (Crash when an Exception occured in iterator_to_array).Fixed bug #52041 (Memory leak when writing on uninitialized variable returned from function).Fixed bug #52060 (Memory leak when passing a closure to method_exists()).Fixed bug #52001 (Memory allocation problems after using variable variables).Fixed bug #51723 (Content-length header is limited to 32bit integer with Apache2 on Windows).Fixed bug #48930 (__COMPILER_HALT_OFFSET__ incorrect in PHP >= 5.3). For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available on http://php.net/migration53, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3. For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.3, see the ChangeLog.
2010-07-22
Most content management system (CMS) based websites, such as Wordpress and Joomla, use a database to store their information. The MySQL Connector for OpenOffice.org lets you view and edit this information using Open Office rather than relying on online tools such as phpMyAdmin.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:32:38 -0700
The newly released PHP and MySQL Training Video from Infinite Skills simplifies learning PHP and MySQL. The visual training format makes learning easy, complex tasks are broken down into easy to follow stages, allowing beginners to master this powerful programming language quickly from the comfort of their own desk.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700
Under the right circumstances, search engines can turn the names of a person's city and state into ugly words; users looking for local info may have to type them over and over until they wish the founders had stuck to just two or three letters. New Yahoo search suggestions aim to eliminate that problem, though. Product Manager Vivian Lin Dufour wrote on the Yahoo Search Blog this morning, "We ...
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:46:25 -0700
Hot on the heels of the organic results integration in the US, Yahoo & Bing both announced today that now is the time to begin preparing your paid search accounts for the final integration, in which Microsoft Adcenter will power all paid search ads on Yahoo! Search in the U.S. & Canada. Click to read the rest of this post...
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:19:57 -0700
Payment processer Peanuts Lab deploys Red Oxygen technology for gamers. Peanut Labs, which processes payments from consumers who play online games , has introduced a text messaging service that warns players about suspicious transactions.
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:52:40 -0700
By: Kristen Durbin With the implementation of the new online student account system, IrishPay, the Office of Student Financial Services will save nearly 400,000 sheets of paper each year and parents and students are able to make payments online. ...
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:05:04 -0700
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