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PHP remote debugging in Eclipse PDT

in order to start remote debugging your php scripts right from your development server, you’ll need the Zend debugger for your server’s platform from here:

http://www.zend.com/en/products/studio/downloads

Chose the right ZendDebugger shared library for your PHP version (e.g. 5_2_x_comp/ZendDebugger.so) and copy it to your server – most likely where your other PHP extensions reside (in my case a turnkey LAMP stack —> directory /usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs)

Now add a little information to the end of your php.ini. Make sure, you use the right php.ini file (if you’re unsure: consult phpinfo() under the key “Loaded Configuration File”)

zend_extension = "/usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs/ZendDebugger.so"
zend_debugger.allow_hosts = 192.168.43.1
zend_debugger.expose_remotely=always
zend_debugger.passive_mode_timeout=600

Of course adjust the first to lines accordingly. Allowed host is the IP address of the PC that’s running your Eclipse IDE. For more information on these directives, consult TFM
Just a small notice on ‘allowed_hosts’: You can define full netmasks here, such as 192.168.0.0/16 – that means every IP in 192.168.*.* – perfect for home DHCP or teamwork.

If your installation work was succesful, you’ll see a new paragraph in phpinfo() output that refers to as “Zend Debugger”

August 30th, 2010

nokia pc suite – force a full sync

simply delete the cached data stored in a folder like:
C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Nokia\PCSync\SynchData\

July 12th, 2010

recover data notes

recovering data from an sdcard is possible with oss:

create an image of your drive using dd:

dd if=/dev/disk1 of=/path/to/my/image.img

get foremost at
http://foremost.sourceforge.net/
then extract and make it

you can specify a type, e.g. MOV

./foremost -t mov -i /path/to/my/image.img -o /path/to/my/recovered/files

July 6th, 2010

turnkey linux

turnkey linux is a nice and small virtual appliance that comes as jeos (just enough operating system).

it offers several ways to access it after it’s running:

shell in browser (http, port 12320)
webmin interface (http, port 12321)
ssh

unfortunately the vmware tools didn’t work. so i reinstalled them:

mount vmware tools in vmware player

mount cdrom

sudo mkdir /media/cdrom
sudo mount /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom

unpack and install vmware tools

cd /tmp
tar xvzf /media/cdrom/VM*.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl

install vmware tools

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

configure vmware tools

/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl

show virtual disk mount points

vmware-toolbox-cmd disk list

zero out empty spaces
(creates a huge file that takes all the free space on your harddisk and writes zero’s in it.
thus it should be better compressable.

cat /dev/zero > zero.dat ; sync ; sleep 1 ; sync ; rm -f zero.dat

shrink disk /

vmware-toolbox-cmd disk shrink /

June 26th, 2010

grep find blabla

grep -Iri

April 26th, 2010

The age of features is dead; Welcome to the age of User Experience.

The age of features is dead; Welcome to the age of User Experience.
This is the tagline of Aral Balkan’s blog with useful posts like that

April 2nd, 2010

Converting E-Mail from Outlook to *

After I converted from Windows last year I still avoided to convert my old emails. Well – this weekend the time has come. After a long hard road of try and error I came to the following conclusion:

1) Setup a new Virtual Machine with Windows XP (includes Outlook Express)
2) Install Microsoft Outlook Trial in this VM
3) Install Thunderbird in this VM

4) Open your PST files in your Outlook trial version and copy all the mails to the main PST.
5) Open Outlook Express and select “import mails from Outlook”
6) Open Thunderbird and select “import mails from Outlook Express”

7) Transfer Thunderbird’s MBOX files to Thunderbird on your Mac.
On PC the Local Folders can be found in a path like this: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Anwendungsdaten\Thunderbird\Profiles\********.default\Mail\Local Folders
On Mac it’s found in a dir like ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/********.default/Mail/Local Folders

January 25th, 2010