Darren Beale

Wordpress spam plugin

Sunday, May 21, 2006

After getting over 200 comment spams in 2 days I decided to implement an automatic spam blacklist system as manual parsing wasn’t cutting it any more. Akismet seems good: We can’t stand spam. Who can? You have better things to do with your life than deal with the underbelly of the internet. Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is [...]

A few of my favorite net things

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

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It’s a bit long but quote good: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gCOvY45FhsE&search=linux

ssh logins without a password

Friday, April 28, 2006

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Share ssh keys: client: [code]cd ssh-keygen -t rsa[/code] the copy ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub over to server server: [code]mkdir .ssh cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys[/code] Job done

MySQL Workbench

Monday, April 24, 2006

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I just downloaded MySQL workbench 1.06 beta. I stumbled across it after finding this message on the DBDesigner forum page: Dear DBDesigner4 users, Due to several attacks against the DBDesigner4 forum it has now been closed down. We simply cannot understand the sick motivation of people to attack Open Source projects. So please understand that we will not provide [...]

Enabling spell checking within FCKeditor

Sunday, April 23, 2006

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CMS Made Simple uses the great GPL WYSIWYG editor FCKeditor and I noticed this morning that it has a spell checking facility. To get it to work, I: Installed aspell on my dev server: [code]apt-get install aspell Reading Package Lists… Done Building Dependency Tree… Done The following extra packages will be installed: aspell-bin aspell-en dictionaries-common libaspell15 Suggested packages: aspell-doc spellutils [...]

Vim: Enough tabs already

Sunday, April 2, 2006

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Scenario: You are connected to a Linux webserver via a Windows terminal client such as PuTTy. You copy some text to paste into a Vim document open on the remote machine and you get tab hell: Here’s an example of something I pasted in tonight: [code] ServerAdmin webmaster@host.some_domain.com [...]

Firefox on my PDA

Monday, October 10, 2005

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I’ve a Dell Axim x30i and occaisionlly I use it to look at things on the int3rweb. Windows 2003 Mobile Edition comes with IE (suprise suprise) but I’d rather use something else. Minimo, sounds like the perfect replacement, though it’s still heavily in development (I guess) and on my first install seemed to be slow and [...]

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Wordpress spam plugin

A few of my favorite net things

ssh logins without a password

MySQL Workbench

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