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G-WAN is a new free web server. They seem to be very proud of it, or at least just want to make a lot of money. Well anyway, in almost every sentence they write, they claim that they are 20% cooler than anything else. It feels a bit arrogant. I have to admit, I don't know a lot about web servers, so I can't speak to how good they are.

However, then I saw their Captcha example. I also don't know much about machine learning algorithms, OCR, and stuff like that, but I do know how to read pixels. I also know how to compare values with python :P

They say the following about their Captcha:

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#!/usr/bin/env sh

##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
#   https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
#   curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#

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# Last modified: 2011 Sep 14
# Author: Florian CROUZAT <contact@floriancrouzat.net>
# Feel free to do whatever you want with this file.
# Just make sure to credit what deserve credits.

# Binds {{{
# Prefix
unbind C-b
set-option -g prefix C-a
bind a send-prefix

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#!/bin/bash
#
# tmux.sh - example for Django/compass/hamlpy tmux dev setup
#

mydir=/home/dev/movietempest
source $mydir/env-django-1.3.2/bin/activate
py=$mydir/env-django-1.3.2/bin/python
aliaspy=alias py="$py"
ses=mt

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# ~/.tmux.conf
#
# See the following files:
#
#   /opt/local/share/doc/tmux/t-williams.conf
#   /opt/local/share/doc/tmux/screen-keys.conf
#   /opt/local/share/doc/tmux/vim-keys.conf
#
# URLs to read:
#

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#!/usr/bin/env sh

##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
#   https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
#   curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#

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##How Homakov hacked GitHub and the line of code that could have prevented it

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Please note: THIS ARTICLE IS NOT WRITTEN BY THE GITHUB TEAM or in any way associated with them. It's simply hosted as a Gist because the markdown formatting is excellent and far clearer than anything I could manage on my personal Tumblr at peternixey.com.

If you'd like to follow me on twitter my handle is @peternixey

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Day job: Software Developer and Security Expert

Favorite Python project: FABRIC 

Favorite Conference: Pycon 2011

Python Experience Level: Intermediate

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"""

This fabric file makes setting up and deploying a django application much
easier, but it does make a few assumptions. Namely that you're using Git,
Apache and mod_wsgi and your using Debian or Ubuntu. Also you should have 
Django installed on your local machine and SSH installed on both the local
machine and any servers you want to deploy to.

_note that I've used the name project_name throughout this example. Replace
this with whatever your project is called._

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from fabric.api import *

"""
Base configuration
"""
env.project_name = '$(project)'
env.database_password = '$(db_password)'
env.site_media_prefix = "site_media"
env.admin_media_prefix = "admin_media"
env.newsapps_media_prefix = "na_media"