All posts tagged with 'Rants'

A muzzle for WordPress 2.3 and the Akismet Plugin

26-Sep-07

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 […]

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RMagick vs. the Rest of the World

24-Jul-07

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 […]

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On installing Windows Vista

30-Jun-07

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 […]

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Ruby On Rails the Java Way: Grails

21-Jun-07

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 […]

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I wanna visit some spamers with a chrome axe…

06-Jun-07

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 […]

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