Markus Breitenbach

Month: March 2008

  • “Internal Server Error” when converting phpBB v2 to phpBB v3

    I’m hosting a little phpBB installation and had some problems with the conversion script that comes with phpBB for the conversion of the forum. It seems that the timeout-values for PHP by 1and1 are set too conservatively. I found that adding the following lines to the “install/install_convert.php” file does the trick (credit for this trick) :

    @set_time_limit(0);
    @ini_set(‘memory_limit’, ‘256M’);
    @ini_set(‘upload_max_filesize’, ‘128M’);
    @ini_set(‘post_max_size’, ‘256M’);
    @ini_set(‘max_input_time’, ‘-1’);
    @ini_set(‘max_execution_time’, ‘-1’);
    @ini_set(‘expect.timeout’, ‘-1’);
    @ini_set(‘default_socket_timeout’, ‘-1’);

    Having the conversion script reload also seems to help a bit…

  • Firewire and DRM

    An old security vulnerability in the Windows Firewire implementation has resurfaced. I wonder how long it takes until Microsoft figures out that if one can read/write arbitrary memory (including kernel-memory), then one can probably find encryption keys to “secured media content” …