Broken pc
The easterbunny killed my power supply. So, I’m posting this with my phone. I’ll be back once it is fixed.
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I’ve given up on feisty. I’ve blogged several times now about my failure to install it properly. Today I gave it another try and partially succeeded before failing again. I read somewhere that you can...
View Articlexampp, skype and port 80
For some time I’ve been considering setting up some php development environment. Not that I like php but I want to play with some php stuff nevertheless (e.g. Drupal seems interesting). So I downloaded...
View Articlewebsites and stupid assumptions
I just went to a blog and wanted to leave a comment. So the site redirects to blogger.com where I can leave a comment. The site correctly detects I am located in Finland. Very good! That’s so clever!...
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ubuntu – the story continues
If you’ve been following my ubuntu rants (one, two, three + latest comment), you’ll know that so far the experience has been not as FUCKING advertised (excuse the explicitive). Well, here’s another...
View ArticleSpam users
The latest in blog spam seems to be users signing up with obscure addresses like filesearch@o2.pl (feel free to send all sorts of crap that way) and not posting any comments. This was sort of a minor...
View ArticleManaging wordpress deployment
This little article is a summary of how I currently manage my wordpress blog. The wordpress.org site lists some advice on how to manage a wordpress installation using subversion. However, I have a...
View ArticleBad behavior
My previous post was a bit short because I was basically calling the taxi to the airport at the same time. The reason for this was “Bad Behavior“, which is a wordpress plugin that got a little...
View ArticleTotaled my Porsche
As you might recall I bought a pair of Lacie Porsche 500GB disks some time ago. Well, a few weeks ago the power supply of one of them began making funny noises and it was getting harder to start up the...
View Articlecaptcha
It seems the captcha plugin (capcc) I was using with wordpress has been broken for some time. Probably this happened when I installed wp 2.5 a few weeks ago. My friend Christian del Rosso pointed this...
View ArticleBoosting Lucene search results using timestamps
Since I spent quite a bit of time looking into how to do this properly so here’s a solution to a little problem that has been nagging me today: how make lucene take into account timestamps when...
View ArticleLucene Custom Analyzer
A second neat trick I did with Lucene this week was to wrap the StandardAnalyzer with my own analyzer (see here for the other post on Lucene I did a few days ago). The problem I was trying to address...
View ArticleFailing power supply
In April 2007, I replaced a broken power supply in my PC with a Antec SmartPower 2.0 500W Power Supply. Check my review here. A few days ago, my pc has started producing a high pitched noise. Really...
View ArticleMigrating iTunes windows to Mac
As part of my recent imac purchase came the chore of moving stuff over from my old hard drive which thankfully survived my old PC’s premature demise. Part of the stuff that I naturally wanted to...
View Articlelog4j, maven, surefire, jetty and how to make it work
I spend some time yesterday on making log4j behave. Not for the first time (gave up on several occasions) and I was getting thoroughly frustrated with how my logs refuse to conform to my log4j...
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