Author: sroot
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Installing a new hard disk in a Mac = not fun
So I had to upgrade my mac hard disk. 12 months and I filled the 320Gb disk so I treated myself to a Seagate Momentus XT 750Gb disk. It has NOT been fun. Problems so far include: Initialise disk over the internet and restore from TimeMachine – fails to restore the recovery partition so cannot…
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WordPress redirects
Moving from movabletype to wordpress has involved several post moving to new locations. The redirection plugin has made adding redirects easy but only once I figured out the correct regular expressions to use. Here’s what I’ve had to use. 1) Old MT pages had .html on the permalink Source: /(d*)/(d*)/(.*).html Target: /$1/$2/$3/ 2) A much…
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Results are in, WordPress gets as much spam as movabletype
That didn’t take long. Last night I pointed the domain name to the new WordPress server. This morning I had 50 spam comments held for moderation. I was impressed the spammers had noticed the blog change so quickly, then I thought the robots probably change their behaviour depending on the comment page. Clever those spammers.…