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…using mod_rewrite.

Red bull, f**k off with your wings. By comparison, mod_rewrite straps you to an aircraft engine, and fixes you up with a complimentary nappy in case you wet yourself.

Alas, what if you want to serve a file named “can’t?touch this”…, and the first line of your request looks like this

GET /can’t?touch%20this HTTP/1.1

So what if I take a perverse interest in edge use cases? Bring it on…

A short interlude – customizing the desktop on an old OS to look as sleek and shiny as all the newfangled dropshadow curvy bullshit that is so prolific in the world of “2.0” everything.

Or the arduous tale of bending msiexec to your will…

An underused superpower provided by Orca, makes it possible to fiddle the parameters of an MSI (windows installer) – when you want to make Server 2003 pretend to be XP for example…

This allows you to bypass the requirements of the MSI author, no doubt put in place to achieve nought except hurling a serious pile of annoyance at you and anyone else who might be making a better OS choice.