Because I enjoy deep hurting, I thought it would be fun to reverse proxy Apache 1.3 using Apache 2.2 with Wordpress 2.1 hosted under the former. With Wordpress 2.1, the rewrite rules generated for the date schema are considerably shorter, but still require a few minor changes to proxy happily.

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My father recently purchased a new eMachines T5082 without asking my opinion and as such I have been tasked with configuring it. The first question, of course, is why is Windows Vista so awful slow the system is unusable? Let us list the reasons.

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My relationship with dspam, a bayesian classifier based spam solution, has been unwavering since I first installed it in 2005. I previously used SpamAssassin. While SpamAssassin offers a wide variety of tests involving potentially dozens of sources including rulesets, DNS blacklists, URI blacklists, checksum databases, and bayesian classifying, I found its false negative rate unacceptable and resource overhead excessive.

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Have you been experiencing the hurt of Capistrano failing?

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