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Archive for February, 2007


Subversion and Webroot Security

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

I’ve taken up managing my deployed web applications with subversion, similar to how I manage my wordpress installs.
However, a new issue arises. The source code to my apps is not neccessarily a public domain, open source deal (like Wordpress), and there is nothing to stop someone going to http://example.com/.svn/ or http://example.com/some_directory/.svn/ and poking around at [...]

mplayer, fontconfig and freetype on OS X

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Since mplayer got decent support for SSA/ASS subtitles, complete with embedded fonts I’d been meaning to check the feature out. Recent subversion builds of mplayer had required an upgrade to freetype 2.2.1 from whatever ancient version Apple ship with OS X 10.4, and after enabling passing ‘-ass -embeddedfonts’ to the media file, I was slightly [...]