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Elasticsearch – Creating an english analyzer with asciifolding

When using the english analyzer with my Elasticsearch index I also wanted to use the asciifolding filter to remove accents. I couldn’t find a simple way to do this so I ended up just replicating the existing english analyzer, and then adding asciifolding to the list of filters. See below:

module ItemIndex
  settings index: {
    # Replicates the english analyzer but simply adds asciifolding
    analysis: {
      filter: {
        english_stop: {
          type:       "stop",
          stopwords:  "_english_",
        },
        english_stemmer: {
          type:       "stemmer",
          language:   "english",
        },
        english_possessive_stemmer: {
          type:       "stemmer",
          language:   "possessive_english",
        },
      },
      analyzer: {
        english_with_folding: {
          tokenizer:  "standard",
          filter: [
            'asciifolding',
            'english_possessive_stemmer',
            'lowercase',
            'english_stop',
            'english_stemmer',
          ],
        },
        folding: {
          tokenizer: "standard",
          filter:  [ "asciifolding" ],
        }
      },
    }
  } do
    mapping do
      indexes :name, type: :string, analyzer: 'english_with_folding'
    end
  end
end

module ItemIndex

settings index: {

# Replicates the english analyzer but simply adds asciifolding

analysis: {

filter: {

english_stop: {

type: "stop",

stopwords: "_english_",

english_stemmer: {

type: "stemmer",

language: "english",

english_possessive_stemmer: {

type: "stemmer",

language: "possessive_english",

analyzer: {

english_with_folding: {

tokenizer: "standard",

filter: [

'asciifolding',

'english_possessive_stemmer',

'lowercase',

'english_stop',

'english_stemmer',

folding: {

tokenizer: "standard",

filter: [ "asciifolding" ],

}

} do

mapping do

indexes :name, type: :string, analyzer: 'english_with_folding'

end

Running server density on startup on OS X (El Capitan Edition)

For some reason the existing solution for configuring server density to run on startup with OS X was failing for me. For whatever reason, this is what ended up working for me, and I dare not touch it now!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Label</key>
	<string>com.boxedice.sd-agent.start</string>
	<key>RunAtLoad</key>
	<true/>
	<key>StandardOutPath</key>
	<string>/tmp/sd-agent.out</string>
	<key>StandardErrorPath</key>
	<string>/tmp/sd-agent.err</string>
	<key>ProgramArguments</key>
	<array>
		<string>/usr/bin/python</string>
		<string>/usr/local/bin/sd-agent/agent.py</string>
		<string>start</string>
	</array>
</dict>
</plist>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<dict>

<key>Label</key>

<string>com.boxedice.sd-agent.start</string>

<key>RunAtLoad</key>

<true/>

<key>StandardOutPath</key>

<string>/tmp/sd-agent.out</string>

<key>StandardErrorPath</key>

<string>/tmp/sd-agent.err</string>

<key>ProgramArguments</key>

<array>

<string>/usr/bin/python</string>

<string>/usr/local/bin/sd-agent/agent.py</string>

<string>start</string>

</array>

</dict>

</plist>

Shaan Indian has a new website in Cincinnati

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Using pg_activity with Amazon RDS

By default you aren’t able to use pg_activity to connect directly to your Amazon RDS instance. This is due to two things: You don’t have superuser, ever, on Amazon RDS pg_activity tries to get information on all databases, which includes the rdsadmin database that you will never have access to. This database is owned/managed by… Read More »

TechTool Pro 6.0.8 Download

It took me a while to find the download link for TechTool Pro 6.0.8 so I thought I’d share it for others: TechTool Pro 6.0.8 Download Mirror

Pattern Maker for IDA

So I recently purchase IDA 6.1 and quickly realized that the majority of plugins available online were simply compiled for windows, but no source! One example was pattern maker that was originally posted here. Unfortunately the source was lost, so I decided to attempt to re-create it. It simply gives you patterns for the disassembly… Read More »

Boost – Building libraries on OS X Lion 10.7 (Boost version 1.49.0)

So I didn’t want to use macports to install Boost, although feel free to if you don’t want to build the libraries yourself. I was running into quite a few issues, and thought I would make a post as to the steps I had to take to successfully build the libraries. Step 1: Make sure… Read More »

inject_bundle – Issue with mach_override

So I’ve had mixed success when injection into other processes on OS X. The majority of functions will hook just fine using mach_star (intel). But I was having a particular problem hooking some functions. I wanted to get a better idea of what was actually being passed to this function. And, of course, it wouldn’t hook, ever. So… Read More »