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Because of the way that ‘open_basedir’ works in restricting everything some things that you access file system wise in code, it will restrict you also in using programs such as ImageMagick , or in applications that may use it such as Coppermine Gallery or Menalto Gallery.

To fix this you need to either turn off openbase_dir or make it so that the PHP running on the target domain can access the directory where ImageMagick resides. First you need to modify your vhost.conf, you can see examples of modifying/changing/reloading this config file here.

php_admin_value open_basedir /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs:/tmp:/usr/bin/

Above you can see the line of code that needs to be added, the first two options ‘/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs’ and ‘/tmp’ are the default running settings (restricting things), so when defining the value of the open_basedir you need to re-declare these two. The third path allows our PHP to access that folder when running, and so can now access ImageMagick etc, along with a lot of other things.. Security risk perhaps, but at least it works for now.

I’ll look into a more secure method, please comment if you can suggest/add anything to this topic.

Here are some Panoramas and Screenshots I took from Bungie’s recent Halo Reach Beta. Just a few I didn’t go too crazy with these. When the full game comes out I will take plenty! MjolnirTactics has some amazing full screen Panoramas that put mine to shame, and so does HaLo2FrEeEk which you can see at the end of the post.

Panorama Elite Generator

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According to a new job posting over at bungie.net, there’s a new listing for a ‘Personal Assistant/Gopher’, this may not seem like big news but there is a little tid bit in there that is very interesting.

Poised, professional and mature-minded Assistant/Gopher needed to provide personal support to Studio Head and to assist in the coordination of a major office relocation/move. Duties will include running personal errands for Bungie’s Studio Head, providing transportation services (vehicle provided) and other duties, as needed. Office relocation/move tasks may include, but are not limited to, procuring equipment, supplies and services as needed.

Now are Bungie planning on relocating from their current office in Kirkland, WA? Which was setup during Bungie’s era with Microsoft, or perhaps since their recent deal with Activision they are looking to expand with the recent cash injection to work on the ‘Next Big Title’.

Bungie needs more space and they couldn’t find that in Kirkland – Kirkland’s Economic Development Manager Ellen Miller-Wolfe.

There were talk’s of this in 2008 and Halo.Bungie.org picked up on this as well as other news sources. It was reported then that they were purportedly moving ‘to a former movie cineplex in downtown Bellevue’ – Techflash.

So the move that has been in planning for a while now looks like it is finally coming to fruition! Just like moving house there is no perfect time to move, but with Halo3/ODST firmly out the door, and Reach development winding down would now be the perfect time to move everyone? Then again the other title Bungie is working on is surely in full swing.

Interesting time’s indeed for everyone involved at Bungie Studios!

Update

Louis Wu just updated me

Heh – you wrote that as though it were a big mystery.

The move to Bellevue is public, and has been planned (as you pointed out)
for years. Their original intention was to be moved in this spring – but
they’ve been in crunch for months, and moving simply wasn’t an option.

They’ll be making the move once Reach goes gold; at that point, they’ll have
a little breathing space and will be able to afford the time and messiness
of a major move.

This has been discussed publicly on various forums over the past year or
two – nobody’s hiding anything, and there’s no real mystery.

(We never updated the news after that 2008 tidbit because there’s been no
real change in the plans since then…)

Coppermine gallery is a great piece of software, as of version 1.5.3 RC it has the ability to display ‘tags’ on the search page of your gallery and then you can click on one of those tags to display all pictures that have been assigned with that specific keyword. To see what i mean, see bellow:

And when you click through from one of the keywords you should see:

So that’s great, but the tags are hidden away on the search page, wouldn’t it be great to show these on the home page somewhere? Luckily is relatively simple to achieve.

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I recently went to check in with the goings on over at Halomods.com and to my surprise I was greeted with this message

To the guys at rework3d and anyone else who was a fan of halomods.
I’ve decided to discontinue the site for reasons you can probably figure out yourself. If anyone is interested in taking over the domains and the rest of the site, send a message outlining your future plans for the domain\site to hm.sourceguy@gmail.com. Whoever has the best plans for the site can have it. Deadline: 20 feb.

-SG

Now I knew there were some big changes that went on, there was a new domain and stuff but I was very shocked to see it complete down with everything gone!

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For one of my domains, I noticed it was stuck as ‘suspended’ but was still functioning. This was due to my server going offline during a Plesk cp backup. There are two ways of fixing this:

If your domain is just that, a domain then run this command as root from your CLI

/usr/local/psa/bin/domain -u <full_domain_name> -status enabled

It should then tell you that it was successful, and hopefully your domain is back to normal. -

SUCCESS: Update of domain ‘example.com’ complete.

For domains that are part of a client, or if a client has been susspended simply run

/usr/local/psa/bin/client -u <login_name> -status enabled

Simple error to fix.. You just need to add in a blank function to FirePHP_Fake.php Codeigniters Library.

public function error() {
}

Its annoying when these people keep password protect these files that I download.. So you don’t have to complete the surveys they make you fill out, which earns these people money I may ad. So here is the password for the.pacific.i.720p-dimension.rar:

comedy

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