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PHP on IIS 7.0

Cip — Sun, 10 May 2009 14:53:07 +0000

IIS 7 looks nothing like IIS 6. But fear not, just because it’s sexier than ever it doesn’t mean that you cant set up PHP in less than a minute!

Ladies and gentlemen, start your stopwatches (and webengines?)!

Go to PHP.net and download the latest ZIP package for Windows.
Extract into a folder that doesn’t make the path have spaces in it.
Wrong:
C:\Program Files\PHP
Correct:
C:\ProgramFiles\PHP

Obviously doesn’t need to be in ProgramFiles, it’s just an example.
Launch IIS
Select your server and click Handler Mappings
Add Script Map
Set Request Path to *.php and Executable to be php5isapi.dll in your PHP folder
Press OK and allow it permissions to do its thing (press Yes in the inevitable permissions popup).
Done!

Now, normally you would want to add index.php to your Default Documents list, but I assume you know how/will Google it. Enjoy your new PHP server! :-)

Otfans downtime

Cip — Sat, 09 May 2009 06:18:57 +0000

I see GrizZm0 finally decided to be true to his word when he said that a webserver shouldn’t use any processing power.

Cip: Users to spread content

Cip — Fri, 08 May 2009 06:58:05 +0000

CNN reports that Rupert Murdoch sees no future for free news on the internet, obviously he has no clue how the internet works. I mean, we all know how people love to share anything that can fit in a .rar file and on top of that there’s no way in hell they can outlaw free speech, so there’s no way for them to stop the spreading of news.

Okay, fine. We all know they will do just that.

Communist Liberal

Cip — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:04:22 +0000

I always considered myself more of a liberal kind of guy. Guess I was wrong.

Cryptic government expects clear terrorist communications

Cip — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:46:52 +0000

Contrary to the wishes of their voters, the Sweden has adopted a law which allows the government to eavesdrop on all communications within the country. This was achieved by pulling stunts, dramatic scenes with crying politicians, and the promise of strict controlmeasures to ensure the privacy of the population.

Of course, when everything I do in front of the computer takes a sidetrip into the National Defence Radio Establishment’s servers it’s hard to appreciate the promises of protected privacy.

So why did they pull such a stupid thing out of their asses?
Nobody knows, but it’s supposed to be for an improved defense against terrorist attacks, which is something that has never in the history of the country been recorded to occur.

Now what does this mean for the everyday computeruser such as yourself?
If you connect to a client or server located in Sweden it means all the traffic between the two of you is being analyzed by the National Defence Radio Establishment. Of course you can encrypt your traffic and thus keep what’s yours to yourself. But be aware that they do have machines running with the sole purpose of decrypting messages so that they can be analyzed. I recommend using a 1024 bit encryption to make sure you are a real pain in the ass.

Should you be forced to speak on the phone with a swede, please mention “packages” and “showtime”. Pretend you’re Usama and that you went to a school which actually teaches english. =)

Of course, real terrorists have been using encryptions for a long time, but the government doesn’t know that so it’ll be fun messing with them even though I am guaranteed never to get through customs in the U.S. (Yes, we do flag suspects as possible terrorists and as far as I know we will share the information with the yankees).

Big brother is watching you.

Progress without progress

Cip — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:59:36 +0000

I started using computers back in 94 when we were the only family in the whole appartment complex who owned one. It was a Compaq with MS-DOS on it, me and my older brother had lists with commands you could type and stuff would happen on it. For example, if you typed “Games” it would automatically go to the Games folder. Mother, sweet as she is, had placed .bat files there so we only had to type the name of the games to play them, rather than changing directories and stuff.

Me and my brother were first introduced to the internet sometime in 96 when we went to our dad’s place and saw him playing Command & Conquer, he explained that he was playing with his friends and later we played Transport Tycoon via serial cable.

So here we are, 12 years later. With computers almost 20 times as fast as they were back in the good ol’ days and ethernet cables jacked directly into our veins. My family now has about 10 computers, I have a triplehead setup (three screens) and a laptop on the side of that. But we still wait those long seconds for the programs to start. How come the hardware always seem to be just about enough for the software to run? Are we smarter now and make more advanced programs (Please, dont answer that.), or are the hardware developers just too lazy to create something that is actually ahead of the software developers?

I’d like to see a computer without loading screens, just once.