Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Caravan Stupidity
What happens when the caravan is heavier than the car on a hill? This does. Illegal by the way: that car should never be used to tow such a haevy van, so my guess is it was nicked.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S Raymond is a book about open sorce programs, and true to form, you may read it online. Seen by many as the seminal work on open source software.
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Linux / UNIX tools for windows
Some common and usefull tools that are with *nix OS thta would be nice to have on windows. So here they are, I got all of em to work with XP.
- Bash shell for windows usual shell enviroment for *nix
- Lynx for windows text only browser, good for accessibility tests
- VIM for windows text editor (the)
Its easier to get to grips with vim in a gui enviroment as well, and with syntax highlighting its a very usefull program.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Wedding Photos
The photos that I took at Michael and Louise Curries wedding are now up. Hopefully there will be some more soon, as the rest of the digital camera weidling relatives get in touch :-).
There may be a DVD soon as well.
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Monday, April 19, 2004
Stop SPAM text and marketing calls
Regidstering your phone numbers with the Telephone Preference Service means that most telesales outfits will stop calling you. Recently mobile numbers can be registered and its now illegal to send a unsolicited text to a TPS registered number.
Since registering my home number, I have noticed far fewer calls, and the ones I do get tend to get off the phone quickly when I mention TPS :-).
I think everyone in the country should register all their numbers and stop direct marketing scum in their tracks. Just my opinion of course.
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Micheal and Louise
My old Friend Micheal succesfully married Louise on Saturday. Congratulations to them and thanks to all that contributed to a fantastic wedding, and many thanks to the cooked breakfasts at the hotels which kept me going!
Pictures are coming soon to site near you.
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TRON Costume anyone?
Slighly worrying glimpse into another world, Jay Maynard has created a TRON Costume. Wouldn't the world be strange if we were all alike?
Sci-fi fans scare me sometimes :-).
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Thursday, April 15, 2004
Stuff
Trying to get Xfree86 running under Debain in Vmware.
Being a little bit of a pain.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Netmask Shennanigans
A very nice calculator for netmasks. Comes in handy when doing IP based restrictions on port forwarding. Smoothwall continues to happily work quietly in the corner.
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Change Remote Desktop Port
MS howto on changing remote destop port. Useful security upgrade if you must leave the port open.
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Thursday, April 08, 2004
Port Scanning
Since getting Smoothwall up with the Snort intrusion detection system, I now notice just how often our lan gets scanned. So here are a couple of links obout port scanning to find out how and why its done.
The art of port scanning by the author od Nmap, and newsforge's article on port scanning.
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Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Smoothwall
Just started using smoothwall as a firewall / router in new place. "mb leased line and a PII 233 box is quite happy to provide firewall, routing, loging, and intrusion detection. Easy to install, polished management interface and its free.
Supports all kinds of stuff including internet connections via most ASDL modems (including USB), ISDN or NICs.
Go take a look at smoothwall if this sounds like what you need.
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Friday, April 02, 2004
Qube2 Stuff
Got a qube 2 i am trying to get to work... some URL's im gonna need alter tonight.
Qube2 updates
FTP archve for Qube2
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Home Webserver help
Blundered across this site, which tries to help people set up webservers on the end of DSL lines. A good project for those of you with broadband (gits) and a spare computer.
Oh, the url www.dslwebserver.com. Would help.
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BT almost back...
The register reports that it'll be reet by Monday according to BT. And mentions compensation :-).
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