So, I banged around in irb and Google working on this whole automate my Mac's built-in camera thing. I'm not averse to buying one of the neat-o cam applications I found, like EvoCam, which could almost certainly do whatever still or video capture I want, but I want to know what I can do for free and/or with the shipping software image. And although ( Read more... )

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Finally, after hours of reading through mind-numbingly overcomplicated documentation about the incredible plural architectures for Windows system management (not that I wanted to know any of that, mind you) and their various benighted APIs and tools ...

I present, the answer, or at least the kernel of one:
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Whats this do? ^([^.?]+)$ Or rather, how does it do it, and why wouldn't something simpler work, like ^(.+)$ ?

in:

RewriteEngine on
# Rewrite /foo/bar to /foo/bar.php
RewriteRule ^([^.?]+)$ %{REQUEST_URI}.php [L]
# Return 404 if original request is /foo/bar.php
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} "^[^ ]* .*?\.php[? ].*$"
RewriteRule .* - [L,R=404]
from: < ( Read more... )

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