Three easy ways to get rid of "Please consider turning off register globals if possible"

Submitted by tmib on 4 December 2012 - 1:35pm
Other: 
OSTicket
Tech: 
Web

Using register globals in PHP is seen by many in the community as a security risk. That being said OSTicket wants you to disable register globals because of this risk. However a lot of people who deploy OSTicket are not system administrators who know how to do this. This short article will outline three different ways that you can achieve this.

1. Manually locate and edit your php.ini. Location of this file will vary depending on Operating System and version. However some common locations are:

Debian Linux (etch or squeeze)
location: /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Recover or Reset Admin account passowrd in OSTicket

Submitted by ntozier on 2 November 2012 - 11:41am
Other: 
OSTicket
Tech: 
Web

So you have locked yourself out of your OSTicket installation and you want to reset or recover your password. First of all the password is stored in a md5 encrypted state, and really isn't recoverable, but you can easily change it to something that you do know. It honestly amazes me how many times I have had to answer this question over on osticket.com, so it seemed to me that perhaps its worth mentioning here.

NEWS: OSTicket 1.7 RC3 released

Submitted by ntozier on 1 November 2012 - 2:31pm
Other: 
OSTicket
Tech: 
Web

Great news for OSTicket users today. OSTicket 1.7 Release Candidate 3 (RC3) became available at 2:52am. Here is what the devs mentioned in the WHATS NEW:

* Bug fixes from rc2
* Canned auto-reply template
* Modal dialogs
* PEAR packages upgrade
* Email encoding

OSTicket is a popular [free] open source trouble ticketing system or help desk software built on MySQL/PHP. It monitors an email account and lets users send email or use a web UI to open a trouble ticket.

Disney buys Lucas Films and Star Wars!

Submitted by tmib on 30 October 2012 - 4:45pm
Life: 
event
Political: 
public
Other: 
News

Are you serious? Why yes I am. Not only is Lucas selling Lucasfilm Ltd AND Star Wars to Disney, but the article also specifically mentions a new Star Wars movie to be released in 2015.

Here are a few quotes:
"STAR WARS: EPISODE 7 feature film targeted for release in 2015."

"$4.05 billion, with Disney paying approximately half of the consideration in cash and issuing approximately 40 million shares at closing."

Book: Brave New World and Revisited by Aldous Huxley

Submitted by tmib on 23 October 2012 - 3:29pm
Political: 
public
I am currently in the middle of reading "Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited 1st (first) edition Text Only [Hardcover]" by Aldous Huxley. I've really been meaning to read it for over a decade now and am finally getting around to it. Most people would probably be surprised to realize that it was an Iron Maiden album by the same name (and their twelfth studio album) released back in 2000 is what introduced me to the book in the first place.

Proposal Idea: Paths -> Archetypes

Submitted by tmib on 11 October 2012 - 3:38pm
Life: 
realmsnet.net
RPG: 
Realms

Hey all,

I know that this is long, and verbose. But the concept I think is
pretty simple. And I'm looking for some feedback as to if you think
its REALMS or not.

So I've been thinking about different ways to structure spells (aka
classes) in Realms. And one of the things that occurred to me a while
back was that there is rarely ever a benefit for being a specific
class of healer beyond the "You don't have to pay buy down costs for
these spells". Why is that exactly? I don't really have an answer for
that beyond because that's the way the system was written. Can we

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