ClamAV broken version check

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If you’ve just built and installed the new version 0.94 of ClamAV (because it reminded you that your current version was out of date), and you’re using the experimental features, it exposes a rather dumb bug that results in these messages in your freshclam log: @4000000048be74fd0687f57c Software version from DNS: 0.94 @4000000048be74fd0688245c WARNING: Your ClamAV… Read more »

Safari 4 preview

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I just grabbed the new update to the Safari 4 preview, and I have to say it’s very zippy indeed. I ran SunSpider benchmarks on it and FireFox 3.0.1 on my Mac Pro. Safari 4 is on average 75% faster, but has many results that are in the 200 – 500% range. This is only… Read more »

Apache mod_rewrite bug still lurks

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There’s this enormous apache mod_rewrite bug that I ran into back in 2005, and to my dismay, it’s still there. Long-standing bugs are usually small edge cases that don’t affect many people, but this one is a monster that I suspects pretty much everyone that’s using mod_rewrite, and they’ve just been lucky in avoiding it…. Read more »

Subversion MERGE error on commit nailed

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Recently I’ve had a problem with subversion commits returning a ’200 OK’ result, accompanied by a peculiar MERGE error (when I’m not doing a merge), but weirdly, the commit had actually made it into the repo. I’d googled for this a while ago with no success, but I had another try today and found this… Read more »