September 5, 2007

Controlling Access to Images

The question was recently asked on the CodeIgniter forums, and I've run into it in various forms over the years, so I thought I'd share my answer here as well. The problem in a nutshell. I want to...

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January 18, 2004

The Dunking and Conference Close

At lunchtime I wandered down to the lawns to watch Linus being dunked, which was all good fun. Linus was a good sport about the whole thing. After Linus, the other significant members of the...

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January 18, 2004

apt and getupdates

After the keynote I saw Marc Merlin's "apt-get and getupdates" talk. Debian's apt tool allows you to keep packages up to date on a system, but doesn't really handle configuration files. That's where...

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January 18, 2004

Linux.Conf.Au Day 4 - Havoc Pennington;s Keynote

After a slightly late start Saturday morning, Havoc Pennington gave the final keynote on Desktop Linux. In contrast to the other keynotes this week, the Havoc was neat and well presented, short hair,...

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