Author: sroot
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Block web spammers by their IP address
Every so often someone tries to post spam to this blog using a computer program. They never manage to because even if their computer does solve the captcha I manually approve every post. It’s not like there are a lot of posts here after all. Anyway, I’ve been meaning for a long time to work…
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Installing Sphinx on Mac OS X Lion
Moving from Windows/Linux to Mac, one of my Ruby on Rails applications wasn’t working. I’d forgotten to install sphinx, and the error was a little cryptic for an amateur like me. Anyway, knowing the problem, installing sphinx I expected to be easy. 2 hours later and I realise it’s working. It was probably working within…
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Windows to Mac continued
Where did that month go! It seems only 2 weeks ago I was opening the box of my new macbook pro but it’s actually been a month already. So, what have I learned? Remember how I said how I found it strange the mouse wheel direction had reversed? Well, that’s a new ‘feature’ of OS…