While md5 is a fairly strong hashing algorithm, even with the best algorithm weak passwords based on dictionary words and/or their variants can be easily compromised. There are a few sites on the net that have built searchable databases of "weak" password allowing quick strength checks of md5 hashes. But, each one of those databases has different set of hashes and a different database size, making a "complete" search rather difficult. So, I've come up with a little aggregator script that gathers information from 5 different (tell me if you know of others) sources and offers the resolved data on a single page, thus giving you a fast response from a cumulative database. The script can be downloaded from here, http://ilia.ws/uploads/hash.php.txt It is released under BSD license, so anyone is free to use it.

he fourth and final release candidate of PHP 5.1.0 is now available for testing. You can download the source packages from here: http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.1.0RC4.tar.bz2 4afd68f8e4fe532cea83f30bd2ff26f5 http://downloads.php.net/ilia/php-5.1.0RC4.tar.gz 679a0d12b8cb00c55d56621ea9609013 The Windows binaries will be available shortly from http://downloads.php.net/ilia/ as well. In the past two weeks a great deal of effort was put by a number of developers towards stabilization of the 5.1 branch with over 20 bug fixes made during this period alone. Based on our own tests (those wacky phpt files) and those made by QA team and related projects, 5.1 is ready for production. Pending discovery of any critical issues such as crashes, security faults and regressions I intend to release 5.1 final no later then November 10th. In the meantime I'd like to ask all PHP users to test their code against PHP 5.1 to ensure that no critical issues have been missed. Our own testing methodology while quite...

After nearly 2 months of testing and development I am happy to announce the release of FUDforum 2.7.3, the new stable version. This is primarily a bug-fix release and all users, especially those of the 2.7 series are encouraged to upgrade to it. The upgrade and installation scripts are available at the urls listed below: Install Script Upgrade Script As far as the changes go, this version is virtually identical to the prior release candidate. The one major addition was the integration of the Indonesian translation that now makes the forum available in a whooping 26 languages, 2 more then in the prior stable release. There were a few minor bug fixes as well, details of which can be found below. Rework emoticon display popup. Decode HTML entities in message subjects. Do not restrict length of error messages. ESMTP compatibility changes in FUD's SMTP wrapper. When using FUDforum's SMTP gateway allow admin to choose the SMTP port on which to connect. Added Indonesian translation. Fixed a bug wi...

It would seem that the Canadian province of Ontario, of which I happen to be a resident of, is rapidly and willingly being assimilated into our Southern neighbor. The latest bout idiocy comes from our Attorney General who according to the CBC article that can be found here intends to force extension of DST to match that of United States. According to Americans this change, signed into law by GWB will lead to energy savings, right… Of all the things to change, I suppose no one considered doing something about all those SUV drivers, whose cars eat fuel by the truckload, but anyway… The synchronization of the change in Ontario is being argumented by the fact that having the same time zone will make easier to maintain trade links. So, in 2007 Ontario will blindly follow US’s lead and extend daylight time. Supposedly, Quebec, 2nd most populous province after Ontario is well on its way in adopting a similar stance.

I am in release mode this week, first PHP 5.1.0RC3, now FUDforum 2.7.3RC3. Number three seems to work well for me :-). Since FUDforum's RC2 there have been a surprising number of small bug fixes many of the important ones aimed at improving (coughfixingcough) the PostgreSQL support, which now appears to work quite well. So, to ensure that is indeed the case I've decided to make another release candidate. The upgrade and installer scripts can be found at their usual locations, but here are the direct URLs to them anyway :-). Upgrade Script Installer Script [b]Complete Changelog:[/b] Updated Korean and Japanese translations. Fixed ignoring of override on the admin mass-mail control panel. Changed error logging format to be plain-text rather then base64. Allow mass-email control panel to send messages via private messages. Made PostgreSQL duplicate key check locale safe. When sending PM based on a message, use message subject as the pre-set PM subject. Use INCLUDE setting rather t...