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Reclaiming Sphinx Search as a non-root user

Okay, you're probably wondering why your searchd daemon won't bind to your desired port and this looks a like a familiar screen dump to you: WARNING: compat_sphinxql_magics=1 is deprecated; please update your application and config listening on 127.0.0.1:9306 bind() failed on 127.0.

Create admin user on Mac OS X as root

If you've experienced bringing your Mac in for a repair and you weren't given any new password for your admin account when you receive your Mac... you're going to be in for a surprise when you get home. How to deal with this: CAUTION: Read the entire post before you

Lonely fruit basket

Dreamy Fireworks

Who doesn't enjoy the feeling of watching beautiful fireworks under the blanket of a dark sky, with cool breeze blowing?? (Bonus feeling of sitting there with your loved ones)

Creating an XML sitemap from traversing your blog

I'm using a theme called Sticko and I wanted to quickly create a sitemap. There are many free services out there, but I tried XML Sitemaps and they are only limited to 500 links. Since I'm comfortable with Ruby, here's my simple script to create a sitemap for my blog:

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