In April 2007, I replaced a broken power supply in my PC with a Antec SmartPower 2.0 500W Power Supply. Check my review here. A few days ago, my pc has started producing a high pitched noise. Really annoying. So, I Google a little and what do I find: Antec SmartPower 2.0 500W Power Supplies [...]
Also tagged reviewsA second neat trick I did with Lucene this week was to wrap the StandardAnalyzer with my own analyzer (see here for the other post on Lucene I did a few days ago).
The problem I was trying to address is very simple. I have a nice web service API for my search engine. The incoming [...]
Since I spent quite a bit of time looking into how to do this properly so here’s a solution to a little problem that has been nagging me today: how make lucene take into account timestamps when returning search results. I don’t want to sort the results (that’s easy) but instead when two results match [...]
Also tagged javaIt seems the captcha plugin (capcc) I was using with wordpress has been broken for some time. Probably this happened when I installed wp 2.5 a few weeks ago. My friend Christian del Rosso pointed this out. I installed a different plugin now (yacaptcha) which both looks nicer and hopefully works better too.
So if you [...]
As you might recall I bought a pair of Lacie Porsche 500GB disks some time ago. Well, a few weeks ago the power supply of one of them began making funny noises and it was getting harder to start up the Porsche. The disk worked fine with the power supply that came with the other [...]
Also tagged beerMy previous post was a bit short because I was basically calling the taxi to the airport at the same time. The reason for this was “Bad Behavior“, which is a wordpress plugin that got a little overzealous and locked me out of my own site stating that I had just been blacklisted. Consequently I [...]
Also tagged wordpressThis little article is a summary of how I currently manage my wordpress blog. The wordpress.org site lists some advice on how to manage a wordpress installation using subversion. However, I have a slightly more sophisticated setup that preserves my modifications (as long as they don’t conflict) that I maintain in a private branch of [...]
Also tagged subversion, versionmanagement, wordpressThe latest in blog spam seems to be users signing up with obscure addresses like filesearch@o2.pl (feel free to send all sorts of crap that way) and not posting any comments. This was sort of a minor annoyance until now but over the past 24 hours I’ve had 5 new user registrations like this.
I have [...]
If you’ve been following my ubuntu rants (one, two, three + latest comment), you’ll know that so far the experience has been not as FUCKING advertised (excuse the explicitive). Well, here’s another rant:
After tracking down the kernel driver issue (mind you all my notes on installer usability still apply) that prevented my network from working, [...]
I just went to a blog and wanted to leave a comment. So the site redirects to blogger.com where I can leave a comment. The site correctly detects I am located in Finland. Very good! That’s so clever! Amazing what you can do these days!
The only problem is that like most of this world [...]
