Twitter Updates for 2009-04-29

• Android CupCake official images for ADP1 (Android Dev Phone 1): http://www.htc.com/www/support/android/adp.html #
• #PHP: “Getting SSL: fatal protocol error” with file_get_contents( ) to fetch a https/SSL URL ? Suffix @. i.e. @file_get_contents($url); #

Twitter Updates for 2009-04-27

• @mssqlserver .Net/ASP .Net features like sql cache dependency and latest features like Linq are not supported for MySQL. in reply to mssqlserver #
• @mssqlserver PHP with MySQL due to open source community support, legacy & latest knowledge base. Though PHP works well with MS SQL Server in reply to mssqlserver #

Twitter Updates for 2009-04-25

• Need web analytics for WordPress ? No looking beyond “Open Web Analytics” http://tinyurl.com/ck2egj My tried, tested, trusted #
• IPL match between Rajasthan and Kolkata is a tie. Something called a “super over” is to take place to decide who wins #
• As per WikiPedia “Super Over” means http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty20. Refer to section “Tie Deciders” #
• RT @yemkay_api: @shekharg Catch live twitter conversations talking about “Super over” at http://tinyurl.com/dhssch #
• CricTwits FAQ http://www.crictwits.com/faq #
• @valenw reg #Joomla http://docs.joomla.org/Beginners in reply to valenw #
• Use DDMS tool (part of Android’s SDK) to take a screenshot/print screen of whatever is showing on your #Android phone’s screen #
• While I didn’t, many of my friends, during school days, had their home sit at #GeoCities which is about to be killed and buried by Yahoo. #
• Realizing that it is always a good idea to store the session data of a web app in a database. Useful while scaling across servers and SSO #

Twitter Updates for 2009-04-24

• Firefox 3.0.9 which fixes several vulnerabilities is available for Fedora 10. yum update firefox #
• IPL (Indian Premier League) cricket live streaming http://cricinfo.happyhost.org/ The “link 1″ is reasonably ok #
• #android #linux #dev if “adb devices” does not show device, try disconnecting USB, reconnecting and “adb kill-server” and then “adb devices” #

Twitter Updates for 2009-04-23

• @bineshkutty Found the following in my blog’s analysts: http://tinyurl.com/c25swk in reply to bineshkutty #
• @shekharg sorry I meant blog’s analytics in reply to shekharg #

Twitter Updates for 2009-04-22

• @aseemsood even today ? Starting from yesterday they shud not. Will check in reply to aseemsood #

Twitter Updates for 2009-04-21

• @juhib regarding your query “where to see the tweets of ppl you are following” along with urs, click on “Home” on top right after login #
• @juhib reg Miley, you can send a direct message only to people who are following you too, besides you following them in reply to juhib #
• Oracle acquires Sun Microsystem http://tinyurl.com/68muz7/www/story/04-20-2009/0005008591 #
• Oracle acquires Sun: My worry is MySQL (on my/clients servers) and VirtualBox (on my laptop) #

Secure File Transfer without Secure Shell

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the de-facto but unsecure method to transfer files. SSH (Secure Shell) and its family of services like SCP (Secure Copy) and SFTP (Secure FTP) allows you shell (telnet like) access as well as file transfer via SCP and SFTP, securely. By “securely” I mean the data is that flows across is encrypted including the username and password. SSH is a popular protocol for shell access and file transfer in the Linux world.

So given a choice, SCP/SFTP is a better option in terms of “security”. But enabling SFTP/SCP enables, by default, shell access too. Recently for one of my clients, the requirement was to use SCP instead of FTP while blocking shell access so that no user is able to login, in curiosity, nor could execute any program/script on the server, even by mistake. All they could do is to copy files across – from their desktop to the server and vice versa.  But, I could not find anything in  SSH configuration that barred SSH, while still allowing SCP. Read the rest of this entry »

Twitter Updates for 2009-04-19

• Toshiba to lay off about 4000 temps http://tinyurl.com/cqukd8 #
• my android dev phone did not auto pick up gsm service provider while roaming. May be a setting prob or a con. #

Twitter Updates for 2009-04-18

• In a day long meeting. If anything urgent pls email/sms #