As reported here and elsewhere, Dexter is somewhat talkative.
I recommend the following 2 steps program:
Stop sending your url
If you already have used WordPress 2.3, use the 123 Anonymer Versionscheck 0.10. It will anonymize your data, but a minimum of 1 request with personal data will happen, that is while using the plugin page.
If you do a fresh install of WordPress 2.3, i’d go with the my-hacks.php solution, because that way, no personal info will be send.
Lots of unnecessary Akismet informations
After finding the update problem this morning at Lumières dans la nuit, i read the following group. To my surprise i’ve learned, that the Akismet Spamchecker sends all of the $_SERVER environment variables from your server to the Akismet server. W T F?? I myself use Akismet in a custom project, there is absolutely no need to send this information. To stop sending this information, open akismet.php in your favorite editor, search and remove the following lines:
foreach ( $_SERVER as $key => $value )
if ( !in_array( $key, $ignore ) )
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Installing RMagick seems to be a major pain in the ass… On all systems i got my hands on.
On a fresh Ubuntu Feisty Fawn gems presented me this:
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
Hrmpf, ImageMagick was installed, gcc for sure… What did i miss?
1. sudo apt-get install imagemagick
2. sudo apt-get install libmagick9-dev
3. sudo gem install rmagick
Well, the 2nd one…. Found here.
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A Microsoft employee describes installing Vista on his Dell Machine as a “personal hell”:
It said “Copying files 0%”. And there it stayed. I left for half an hour, came back and it had copied files but was at “Expanding files 1%”. I went to bed, woke up the next morning expecting to see a shiny new Vista to play with. Instead it said “Expanding files 24%”. I thought it had hung, but no: every few minutes the drive would spin up, and every 15 minutes the percentage would go up by 1. I estimated it would take 30 hours to expand the files at this rate, so I left it running all weekend. After a total of about 40 hours, I saw a login prompt. I logged in, and sat looking at the Vista background for eons, and went to work (the weekend being over and all). When I came home the machine had black-screened.
Read the full text here.
The weirdest thing i found in the comments:
I tried an install of Vista recently to try it out as a media center machine. I couldn’t see any of the machines on my network, until I remembered I’d need to change the workgroup name.
I did that, and Vista told me that I would need to reboot in order for the workgroup name change to take effect.
Are. They. F-ing. Kidding. Me?
After all this years, Windows needs to reboot after changing the workgroup… Welcome in 2007. *sigh*
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Why is it, that you have to take at least 2 heavy frameworks (Spring and Hibernate), a scripting addition to Java (Groovy) and build another layer on top of it to achieve a fraction of RoRs functionality? At least, i seems to look nice… a lot of xml configuration madness less, nice urls and so on. Although, i’m afraid of leaky abstraction. Anyway, here you go:
Grails
Groovy
I’ll give it a try, i’ll guess. At least, they have some good and well written tutorials on their sites.
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and replay a book by Bret Easton Ellis. Or at least smack them in the face.
This blog received “just” ~1500 Comment- and trackbackspams since last thursday. On the 2nd place is my dailyfratze project and right behind, planet-punk.
The quintessence: You must do some math if you wanna comment here, trackbacks are validated and i’ve joined Project Honeypot. If there are any questions regarding the latter, just ask me. A handfull of plugins, more internet traffic etc. pp. just to keep idiots destroying modern mediums of communication.
Best of all: My own URL planet-punk.de just got blacklisted by Akismet. Damn it. I’m really curious how that happened. I really never ever spammed anything. *sigh*
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