Most services should run in secure mode by adding SSL on top of them. The most popular services in RedHat 9 are imapd, pop3d, and sendmail. Anyway, default configuration of RedHat 9 will generate certificates with 365 days valid period. So that means you have to renew them once a year. The default certificate directory in RedHat 9 is /usr/share/ssl/certs. The first thing you need to do is to confirm that it has expired by using below command.

# openssl x509 -in sendmail.pem -text | grep Not  

According to the previous post, the patch is not complete for all functions. I found a problem according to attributes mapping. The attributes changed in Drupal are not synchronized to LDAP because of missing some options in administer interface. So below is the new patch.

In case you don’t have iconv and mbstring, you might use below function to convert TIS-620 to UTF-8.

function tis620_to_utf8($text) {
  $utf8 = "";
  for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($text); $i++) {
    $a = substr($text, $i, 1);
    $val = ord($a);
 
    if ($val < 0x80) {
      $utf8 .= $a;
    } elseif ((0xA1 <= $val && $val < 0xDA) || (0xDF <= $val && $val <= 0xFB)) {  

In case you don’t have iconv and mbstring, you might use below function to convert UTF-8 to TIS-620.

function utf8_to_tis620($string) {
  $str = $string;
  $res = "";
  for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($str); $i++) {
    if (ord($str[$i]) == 224) {
      $unicode = ord($str[$i+2]) & 0x3F;
      $unicode |= (ord($str[$i+1]) & 0x3F) << 6;
      $unicode |= (ord($str[$i]) & 0x0F) << 12;  

Wow! Google Talk has just  with avatar and theme support. This version is numbered as 1.0.0.92. There are 2 noticeable look and feel changing. Now you can see avatar and, of course, you can set your avatar using your own photo. Not just that simple thing, you can change look and feel of the chat window.

I have just received a notification e-mail indicated that AllPeers are available for beta tester. Anyway, in this first beta release, an activation key is necessary. Fortunately, the developers allow beta testers to invite 3 more friends to test the program.

For more information, go to read the first announcement and the latest clarification. I am very exciting to try AllPeers. According to the reply message, I have to wait for a few days to get my activation key and download instruction.