Syntux the geek

Why burn a disk when you could mount it? and who wants to remember such command to mount an ISO image
[coolcode]mount -o loop -t iso9660 file.iso /mnt/test[/coolcode] not to mention the long list of mount parameters.

Well, I do want to remember such command but I don’t mind having an easy cool tool to mount ISO images.

Gnome ISO Mounter (Gmount-ISO) is a tool that ease for Desktop users the CD Image files (ISO) mounting/unmounting .

Gnome ISO Mounter (Gmount-ISO) package is available under Ubuntu 7.10 repository
[coolcode]
Package: gmountiso
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 0.4-0ubuntu2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers
Uncompressed Size: 168k
Depends: python, python-central (>= 0.5.8), python-glade2, python-gtk2
Suggests: nautilus
Description: This is Gmountiso, a PyGTK GUI to mount your cd images
Gmount-iso is a small tool written using PyGTK and Glade. It allows you to easily mount your cd images. This is a frontend to the ‘mount -o loop -t iso9660
foo.iso /mountpoint’ command

Homepage: http://www.crans.ens-cachan.fr/Syst%C3%A8meLinux/GmountIso
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and can be easily obtained with aptitude.

[coolcode] sudo aptitude install gmountiso [/coolcode]

Wish you a very happy mounting

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The Open Web Application Security Project released a helpful document that lists what they think are the top ten security vulnerabilities in web applications.

These vulnerabilities can, of course, exist in PHP applications. Here are some tips on how to avoid them. I’ve included related links and references where relevant.

1. Unvalidated Parameters

Most importantly, turn off register_globals. This configuration setting defaults to off in PHP 4.2.0 and later. Access values from URLs, forms, and cookies through the superglobal arrays $_GET, $_POST, and $_COOKIE.

Before you use values from the superglobal arrays, validate them to make sure they don’t contain unexpected input. If you know what type of value you are expecting, make sure what you’ve got conforms to an expected format. For example, if you’re expecting a US ZIP Code, make sure your value is either five digits or five digits, a hyphen, and four more digits (ZIP+4). Often, regular expressions are the easiest way to validate data:

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