Adjusting Space Between Bullets and Text for PowerPoint 2008 for MAC

If there is no space between the bullet character and the text that goes with the bullets, you can insert space between the bullets and the text by takng the following steps when using Microsoft Powerpoint^® 2008 for Mac:

1. Select all of the bulleted text on the slide.
2. Choose Format
3. Choose Paragraph
4. For the vaule of Special, choose Hanging and then put a value in the By field, e.g. 0.38.

   

5. Click on OK.

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Using suexec to run PHP under a different account

I wanted to run PHP for some virtual hosts on a webserver using the user's account for her websites that were handled in Apache's httpd.conf via virtual hosts. To do so, I used use suEXEC, but it took me quite awhile to get it to work..

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Whoami - How to determine the account under which PHP is running

If you need to determine the account under which PHP is running on a web server, you can use the code below:

<?php
  passthru("whoami");
?>

On a web server running Apache as the web server software, you can expect this to be the same as the account under which Apache is running, so you may see apache as the result. Or, if the system is using virtual hosts and suexec, e.g., with an SuexecUserGroup directive in Apache's httpd.conf file for the virtual host, then you may see the userid associated with the website listed.

If you wish to see the user ID, group ID, and groups for the account under which PHP is running, you can use the following code:

<?php
system("id -a");
?>

If PHP and Apache are running under the apache userid, you might see output similar to the following:

uid=48(apache) gid=48(apache) groups=48(apache)

Reference:

1. How to find out what user PHP is running as
   Date: December 13, 2007
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