Boring Tech

So over the years I've been tweaking my spam filtering, updating spam assassin, adding blacklists in sendmail. And over the years its coped pretty well. Of late though I've noticed... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on August 14, 2007 06:47 PM

n800

http://www.nseries.com/products/n800/index.html#l=products,n800Back at the end of feb Abi kindly bought me a Nokia N800 for my birthday.... no it's not a phone. Obviously I've had it for a while now, so... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on April 13, 2007 08:58 PM

Upgraded Security

I've made some changes to my network at home in an effort to improve security. Before any changes I was using a Belkin wireless firewall and router, which provided some... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on January 25, 2007 09:16 PM

My spam is changing

My Spam has changed of late. My email spam is now made up of about 50% normal spam, and 50% mail delivery failures. Nope, I didn't send the email. And... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on January 10, 2007 10:38 PM

iPhone

So, apple are going to make an iPhone, and apparently revolutionise the mobile phone market. I'm not sure quite how they'll do this yet. I'm not convinced it'll be the... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on January 09, 2007 08:31 PM

HD

Blu-Ray are saying they'll win, no problems, they've got more content. HD-DVD think they're in for the long-haul. And to add to their "see, we're right"... they're pointing at LG's... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on January 08, 2007 08:27 PM

Green

Green has been a pressing force for a good few years now. But of late everyone seems to have jumped on the band wagon. Last night, as I was watching... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on January 06, 2007 09:45 AM

FC6, IE7, Firefox 2

Since my last post, IE7's been realeased, and though I'm sure it suffers the same fatal flaws (security, or lack thereof) as it's previous versions, it seems to look pretty... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on October 28, 2006 09:53 AM

FC6

The release schedule for Fedora Core 6 has slipped a little. No real problem, it's not like the page doesn't warn you quite explicitly. I might even be brave and... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on October 19, 2006 08:47 PM

Zaurus

A few weeks back I bought a second hand Sharp Zaurus, which is a bit of a strange beast. I would have normally described it as a toy laptop, being... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on October 04, 2006 09:34 PM

MT 3.3

The release of the latest version of MT, 3.3 obviously passed me by completely (though I've upgraded this morning). The latest version sees the product split into a paid for... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on July 29, 2006 09:26 PM

Mindstorm

Back to work today, busy as ever. MSDN last month release some code snippets and examples of how to use Visual Studio 2005 to control a lego Mindstorms brick (not... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on June 19, 2006 08:59 PM

Sky By Broadband

Got around to trying Sky By Broadband today. Basically it allows though who already have either sports or movie packages to download sports clips or movies to the their PCs... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on June 17, 2006 10:36 PM

Power Supply

The replacement power supply showed up today. I didn't get home from work until very late though because of some out of hours stuff that needed doing. Back home though... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on June 13, 2006 11:27 PM

Boom

I don't know if it's the heat, or just chance but the PC hosting this blog (and all Abi's) has decided to stop working. We unplug it and take it... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on June 11, 2006 08:15 PM

Rocket up my DSL

Our ADSL has had a rocket shoved up it this weekend. Friday night I noticed the router not connecting, and so gave it a reboot. It straight away started synching... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on June 03, 2006 10:07 PM

World's End

Is the world about to end? No? Since when has Microsoft started supporting Linux? Yup, not only has Microsoft decided to give Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition away for... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on April 04, 2006 08:42 PM

World's End

Is the world about to end? No? Since when has Microsoft started supporting Linux? Yup, not only has Microsoft decided to give Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition away for... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on April 04, 2006 08:42 PM

World's End

Is the world about to end? No? Since when has Microsoft started supporting Linux? Yup, not only has Microsoft decided to give Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition away for... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on April 04, 2006 08:42 PM

Move to FC5

Apologies for any interruption of service you may have noticed today. On Monday Redhat/Fedora released Core 5 of Fedora. I've had a spare machine sitting around since we bought our... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on March 24, 2006 10:10 PM

Samba fun

Trying to sort out Samba on FC5 test 2 tonight for Abi. I think the test bit really says it all, as something appears quite wrong with it all. It... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on March 13, 2006 08:24 PM

MT 3.2

I guess this is more of a test post than news. Just as I went on holiday Sixapart released their latest version of MT, version 3.2. I've only just gotten... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on September 12, 2005 07:55 PM

Redesign

A week or so ago, Abi did me a new design for my site, and today, finally, I get around to using it. As ever things are a bit fiddly,... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on July 31, 2005 04:58 PM

AllOfMp3

I don't know if you've seen or even heard of AllOfMp3.com? In essence it's another iTunes... but from Russia, and with that has two big differences. First the tunes aren't... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on July 19, 2005 08:32 PM

Initial impressions

While I'm at work, Abi spends a while snapping away with the new camera, I'll let her show you the fruits of that on her blog, but I'm pretty impressed... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on July 14, 2005 10:14 PM

Intel Inside

Seems Apple are switching over to Intel. Apart from the software compatibility (and I wouldn't be surprised if the emulator is pretty good by the time the switch comes), I... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on June 07, 2005 09:35 PM

iMP

Bob Thompson posted a very critical piece earlier today about the BBC's new iMP media player. I broadly agree with Bob's ideas, and suggestions, especially that already broadcast item should... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on May 17, 2005 09:34 PM

IceLink Firmware Problems

You may remember a while back that I mentioned dension closing their forums, and that while their product was a good idea, it was a bit premature coming to market,... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on May 03, 2005 07:04 PM

MT 3.16

Version 3.16 of Movable Type was released a couple of days ago. The number of security and bug fixes suggest it's a worthwhile upgrade.... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on April 23, 2005 09:56 AM

Minus Net

A while back you may recall me talking about my ISP changing their products (or you can read it here) so that everyone gets ADSL as fast as their line... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on April 22, 2005 07:59 PM

Aircon

We had some aircon work done today, which left us with a leak, which wasn't good, especially as we didn't know what to coolant was. It was all fixed. All... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on April 19, 2005 09:37 PM

Daynotes.orgnet

As Brian notes, and Svenson reminds me, Daynotes.org no longer exists, Daynotes.net, or Daynotes.com is where you'll find it. I would update that blogroll list on the right, but I... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on April 18, 2005 09:52 PM

MT Spam

Since I turned off trackbacks the number of spam attempts has dropped to none. When I turned on captcha's, almost all the spam attempts to comments stopped, and everything came... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on April 18, 2005 06:55 AM

TB Pings

Twice now the linuxbox that this site is serverd from has needed a reboot. It ran out of memory both times killing processes as it went. Most of the out... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on April 10, 2005 09:45 PM

Balls

So, it turns out the wierd new Dyson "Ball", is in fact their new upright vacuum cleaner. It looks a little cool, and easier to use, but has anyone noticed... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on March 14, 2005 09:37 PM

GT4

So, after lots and lots of waiting (as in ordered in October, arrived today, after numerous delays), I got a copy of Gran Tursimo 4 today. So, what are the... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on March 09, 2005 10:42 PM

Captcha

Well, I really didn't intend to go this far, but after the 680th spam attempt here today, I gave in. I've added Captcha's to the comments page. Type the number... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on January 31, 2005 09:27 PM

Spammed Again

Well, it seems the drop in spam the other day was just someone taking a holiday, because the numbers are back up, and beyond previous levels. Yesterday say 795 attempts,... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on January 31, 2005 06:43 AM

Spams Back

The spammer(s) are back, numbers are up again, 190 so far today and still counting. I've taken a few drastic measures to see if I can curtail things a little.... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on January 29, 2005 04:47 PM

Spam Down

On average last week I got 235 attempted spam comments here every day. At the start of this week the average was up to 310. Yesterday I had just 9... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on January 28, 2005 06:47 AM

Dension Close Their Support Forum

Before I get into full swing, let me explain what Dension's IceLink plus is. If you've got an Ipod it's a nifty way of plugging it into your car stereo.... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on January 27, 2005 07:21 AM

XP Updates Update

As you'd expect, Microsoft are locking down XP updates so they only go out to "Authentic" versions of XP. The Register give an overview here. It makes a lot of... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on January 26, 2005 09:45 PM

MT 3.15

MovableType has been updated to version 3.15. The latest patch can also be downloaded as a plugin for earlier versions. It patches a security flaw which seems to allow emails... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on January 25, 2005 07:02 AM

NoFollow

Comment spam has been a problem for a while now within blogging software. Just like email spam, it's a real pain. This place alone for example got 351 attempted spams... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on January 19, 2005 07:14 AM

Spamassassin

Up until the weekend I've been running version 2.6x of Spamassassin on my mailserver. Then I upgraded to the latest version. By itself it improved my spam capture rate quite... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on January 13, 2005 08:47 PM

Macs

As you'll see if you go along to the Apple website, they've released two new products. The Ipod Shuffle is a very cheap memory stick driven ipod, rather than the... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on January 12, 2005 07:20 AM

Spam

So far this year, this site has received an average of 76 spam comments to it, every day. Spam's a pain in the arse for email, and now for sites... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on January 09, 2005 09:27 PM

A Public Service Broadcast

Svenson mailed me late last night to let me know that his hosting comapany have had a problem moving hosting machines for his daynotes sites. Here's what he has to... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on December 23, 2004 06:53 AM

Random Spam

I got a new spam comment today, which demonstrates a new tactic by spammers. In this age of increasing reliance on spotting words, phrases and other patterns which imply spam,... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on December 22, 2004 07:20 AM

MT 3.14

Movable Type has had a small bug in it for a while which adds to system load when comments are added to the site, even if those comments get sent... read the rest.

Posted by Phil on December 21, 2004 07:19 AM