Author: sroot
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Hero lost, hero found
One of my childhood heroes died last week. I’ll always remember how he taught me to ski, lessons so memorable I remember them over 20 years later. I’ll always remember how he was the one who picked me up and carried me over 100m down the ski slope when I fell and broke my wrist…
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Ruby woes: NameError and uninitialized constant
The thing I hate most about learning a new programming language is the time it takes to do the simplest things… something goes wrong and it takes hours to figure it. Sure, it’s worth it once you know but boy do I hate that time consuming learning process. Meet today’s problem. NameError in StoryController#index uninitialized…
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Spam filter that blocks the spam senders from RECEIVING email!
Interesting, I just tried to report spam to a company who I assume ran the campaign in good faith. The report got an unexpected response: : host lonvs07.kinexus.net[212.113.24.167] said: 554 Service unavailable; Client host [89.234.3.158] blocked using relays.ordb.org; ordb.org was shut down on December 18, 2006. Please remove from your mailserver. (in reply to RCPT…