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To Whoever Just Left Me 159 Spam Comments
I feel for you. Personally, not being a programmer and suffering RSI, I do not have the inclination to sort out an anti-spamming system for my personal Web site, so thanks to spammers, I am forced to simply remove the comments system from my site. If you take a look, you'll see how ridiculously full of spam it is. These people are gutter scum. I wish countries would enact serious penalties for people who do this. They ruin the Internet.
Websites, Ubuntu and new toys
Thanks Andrew, but I'd prefer to use the OS, not spend all day recompiling it ;)
GENTOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks! Am going with Ubuntu - it's burning at the moment :)
Personally, I prefer Ubuntu ... I'd go with that unless you have a real desire for a KDE look 'n feel.
There's a guy here who's tried both out and reviewing the experience:
http://www.geektimelinux.com/index.php?q=node/view/195
Samba Problems
Excellent! Glad it's been of help to someone else :)
Thanks. I needed this post today.
Getting There
Judging by the time it's taking to name the talker, despite all those "helpful" suggestions... :P
We're Moving To Cheltenham!
Although the Gloucestershire Royal is a very posh hospital, it's exactly like an airport! And their pharmacy waiting room has a tv! So perhaps Gloucester is not that bad after all?
Oh, and that's not how you spell grey!!
Hehe we've heard that Gloucester isn't all that :) The job Leela went for was at the trust that covers Gloucester too, so we could have ended up going there - a lucky escape? :)
And despite the date there, I'm not making stuff up!
Congratulations! Cheltenham is a very nice town indeed. Just stay clear of Gloucester down the road ;)
Weekend Adventures
80% of the functionality, 20% of the time ;)
Good to hear you are almost through! I love those big long check lists of things - well, when you can start crossing things off it is a nice feeling - even better when there are like 5 things left :)
Searchy Fun
I decided not to use fulltext. Notnet's running an archaic version of mysql, so I couldn't get the advantage of a fulltext binary search, and speed and scaleability aren't issues here. This is also just a quick ~10 line hack that will get replaced in a couple of months time anyway, so I didn't think it was worth logging in and modifying my table :p So I just went with a little pattern match.
You using the fulltext catalog feature of MySQL? Or some other clever way of doing it?
Besides, I've been trying to get highlighting working on returned results sets on a project I'm working on, and it's proving a little problematic at the moment. Maybe that's because I've got weird tags like [b] and suchlike in the text, and so weeding them out and wibbling around punctuation means it's a feature that gets dropped. Oh well.
Do You RSS?
Hehe... sorry it took so long :)
Finally! I can ditch my home-grown screen scraper thing now.
Here's A Suggestion: Ban Answerphones
itz gr8 wn ppl shr thr ntm8 txts
Joy!
"I'll spend tomorrow bug hunting,"
Why does that give me visions of the blokey from Balomory running aobut with a butterfly net?
Well done Rads :)
Here's A Suggestion: Ban Answerphones
Seeing as I am banned from sending text messages, I thought this would be the best way of communicating with you! (And everyone else can read too!)
FYI: My mum was fantastic about the whole sorry affair. Apparently in a bizarre secret life she worked in a factory in Lewisham when she was a student and said it was horrendous and that I would hate it, so she was delighted that I turned it down!
So something is nice at least!
Laters potatasxxx