sql injection

Tried out HackBar for firefox to check for SQL injection on our sites. Basically followed this article's walkthrough. Lots of useful links at this stackoverflow post, in the comments. Especially the Oracle tutorial.

Reviving a Transcend 256 MB pen drive

S wanted me to try and revive a 256 MB Transcend USB flash memory pen-drive. Plugging into an Ubuntu machine and checking fdisk -l showed it was formatted as FAT16. Probably there was also some corruption since he reported pulling it out while Puppy was formatting and/or partitioning it! Anyway, a quick mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdc1 did the trick, working fine now.

new A record

Added a new A record for our alternate ip address, krishna.sssmf.org

adding a mail relay

Re-created a virtual mail server relaying mail to alias addresses on our current server just like in my previous posts

http://hnsws.blogspot.com/2006/03/finishing-postfix-configuration.html
http://hnsws.blogspot.com/2006/03/using-krishna-to-forward-mails-to.html

Just had to do postmap /etc/postfix/virtual after the cf file etc update. This new machine did not start refusing emails for krishna.radiosai.org after adding the virtual domain. Added appropriate firewall rules to the gateway, of course. Just a note: in /etc/postfix/main.cf,
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
does not need to be changed. Changing this is only required if you want the postfix to relay mail (without auth, for third-party domains - an open relay!) from some other ip address also.

winamp not playing wav files - resolved

For many months, my WinAmp installation was not playing wav files, but was playing mp3 files. Today I finally worked out that the in_wave.dll was missing. And the reason was given in this post - I had installed Winamp Lite at one point of time, and that does not have wav support. Installed WinAmp full now - Lite is no longer available - and now it plays wav files without problems.

problems with Nokia Internet Radio on E63

B had a problem with his Nokia E63 phone not allowing him to open the Internet radio app, and giving
playinit error =-5
on trying to play with s60 internet radio app which was installed later. Googling found that this was most probably due to a failed update. Suggested solution seems to be to hard-reset the phone.

playlist in The KMplayer

Making a playlist in The KMplayer might be the solution to my issue of playing PAL clip followed by NTSC (or 30 fps HD) clip. To make KMplayer play the next file in the playlist automatically, I had to go into

Options -> Preferences -> General -> Repeat / Playlist -> Choose Play Next Album

under "When Finished (Album has been fully played)..."

niggling bugs with Kubuntu

Had installed Kubuntu Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS as the dual boot on my work machine after the earlier install stopped booting. (Most probably that was due to the mbr file being deleted from c:, or becoming corrupted.) This installation also runs from a loopback device, a file on the Windows filesystem, like my earlier install.

Anyway, came across some niggling bugs. One persistent one was the error message E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

This would pop up every time I clicked OK for Amarok to install "extra multimedia functionality" as this dialog box says.

Doing a mouse-over reveals the correct package name. Installing everything else worked fine except for Flash. The package was flashplugin-installer
Googling found this thread, and as suggested, doing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
seems to have done the trick.