Want to run your PHP scripts as a Windows program? The guys over at Deskcode have come up with a tool that'll let you do just that. It's called PHP Compiler, and it's a program that converts your PHP Scripts to Windows executable files that can be ran on any windows platform which has the necessary runtime DLL's. Combine this with PHP GTK and you can build some GUI windows apps in PHP. Sounds pretty damned sweet to me!
We are the first Java User Group (JUG) in Northern Ireland, and one of only three in Ireland. Initially we plan to kick off two open source projects, which are already somewhat complete. Active discussion is incouraged within our message boards, on topics ranging from :
Java Questions/Answers
Project Comments/Ideas
Project Bug Report List
or Anything else under the sun !
Mozilla 0.8.1 released. Been using the nightly builds for the last week its finally better than 4.7 The next milestone will be the milestone used in Netscape 6.1, it will be THE milestone, the one which will compete directly with IE 6. Here's a list of changes in this version:
Daily DaemonNews is running a story about Chili!Soft doing a port of Chili!Soft ASP to FreeBSD. It seems they're trying to gather enough interest to make a port worth while. A phone number and link is mentioned in the article.
XFree 4.0.3 is out. New features include (among other): Better ATI Radeon chip support, Anti Aliasing improvments (and supported on more chipsets), Geforce 3 support added (2D), as well as other fixes. Matrox G400/G450 users will be delighted to hear that the 3D has been improved. Enjoy.
Looks like the VBS Worm Generator isn't the only piece of software out with a new version. There's also a new version of the popular backdoor program, SubSeven, which has been released. Some of the new features include "support for proxies, the ability to listen on any random port, a GUI-based packet sniffer and the ability to relay information about compromised machines to Web sites via CGI (common gateway interface). You can read the rest here.
Ever need a boot disk but can't find one? I have a couple of sites for you here and here. How about some old school software? Software here includes a DOS SSH client, CD Recording Utils, Partition Resizer, and a whole slew of internet utilities...
7 lines of code, written in Perl, that let people remove the encryption on DVDs that keep people from watching them without proper authorization. This is the shortest method yet. Full story here.
Winamp 2.73 has been released, but Nullsoft has not yet updated their pages.. Here is a list of changes:
* smaller main winamp.EXE
* new AVS version with larger interface
* seeking for HTTP/1.1 streamed MP3 files
* improved minibrowser functionality
* updated versions of MOD and MIDI plug-ins (thanks Jake and PP)
* made out_wm smaller (32k->7k)
* updated to newer, more efficient installer (1.1i)
Just thought I'd make a small posting about Mozilla 0.8 -- I tried Mozilla out some time back, and found it to be rather slow and EXTREMELY unstable, but they've fixed a fair number of things, and it just rocks right now.
