URL cruft, and how to remove it

Posted by Oli  @   2:19 PM · 29 December  to   Coding · Unix · Weblogging

This is a guide to how to make the perfect URL; ones that are informative, short, and don’t change. It provides information and links on why you’d want to do this, and how to do it for Movable Type and for websites in general.

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Links; MT Spam, mod_rewrite, tutorials

Posted by Oli  @   1:54 PM · 28 November  to   Coding · HTML · Unix · Weblogging

Some links for further reading on a security weakness in MT (allowing spammers to use MT as an open relay), trapping bad robots and spammers (especially relevant for MT users), a good introduction to mod_rewrite, and tutorials on regular expressions and command line text editors.

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Using cron and cgi to back up log files

Posted by Oli  @   2:42 PM · 19 November  to   Coding · Unix

Script kiddie alert! I try to fudge my way through appending my daily log files to another file that my ISP won’t delete. For anyone even more ignorant about cron and cgi than me, if that’s possible ;-)

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The Dark Arts; .htaccess and mod_rewrite

Posted by Oli  @   4:09 PM · 13 November  to   Unix · Weblogging

My first foray into the dark arts of .htaccess and mod_rewrite goes reasonably OK. Here are some links for more information for aspiring chicken sacrificers.

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Movable Type; Installing and Japanese Support

Posted by Oli  @   9:46 AM · 29 April  to   Unix · Weblogging

I’ve been playing around with MovableType with the view to migrate to it, and here’s what I’ve learned about installing and Japanese support. It’s probably pretty obvious to all of you, but hey ;-) Movable Type’s excellent installation instructions…

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Pismo Battery Issues

Posted by Oli  @   8:53 AM · 14 March  to   Apple · Unix

I’ve seen my battery life in my Apple Powerbook Pismo drop quite a bit in the three years I’ve had it. I always hoped it was the increasing system and hardware specs yet feared it was the battery’s slow…

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